Senior Manager, Financial Reporting

Job Overview

Reporting to the Vice-President, Corporate Controller, as the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting you lead the Financial Reporting team and deliver accurate quarterly and annual consolidated and individual legal entity financial statements for a complex multi-entity group, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable accounting standards. You manage monthly internal financial reporting and analysis, maintain and enhance reporting policies, procedures and controls and collaborate with cross-functional teams. The Senior Manager, Financial Reporting ensures consistency of accounting information among entities, creation and maintenance of corporate accounting policies and internal control procedures, and compliance with accounting standards. This role drives continuous improvement, provides leadership, and coaching and development to the financial reporting team.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Leading the preparation and reviewing of quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements for a multi-entity group ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable accounting standards.
• Managing the quarterly and annual financial statement close process, including consolidation, intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translation and review of legal entity results.
• Overseeing complex consolidation activities, ownership structures, minority interest, equity accounting, acquisitions, disposals, restructurings and changes in group structure.
• Preparing internal management monthly financial reporting, reviewing and analyzing financial results, identifying key movements, unusual transactions, accounting issues, and reporting risks.
• Maintaining and enhancing financial reporting policies, procedures, and controls to ensure consistency across legal entities and alignment with group accounting requirements
• Leading, coaching, and developing members of the financial reporting team, setting clear objectives, reviewing performance, and supporting professional growth.
• Partnering with branch and business unit accounting teams to ensure accurate reporting, appropriate accounting treatment, and adherence to group reporting deadlines and standards.
• Leading the resolution of complex technical accounting matters, including preparation or review of accounting position papers and coordination with external auditors
• Supporting the external audit process, preparing audit schedules, reviewing deliverables, responding to auditor queries, and coordinating across group entities .
• Collaborating with corporate and regional accounting teams, tax, finance, legal and operations to ensure accurate reporting of activities and legal entity performance.
• Reviewing agreements, joint ventures, partnerships or corporations for new entities to ensure financial statements are accurate and comply with accounting standards.
• Driving process improvements in consolidation, reporting, close management, and financial systems, and improving efficiency, accuracy, transparency and scalability.
• Monitoring developments in accounting standards and regulatory requirements, assessing their impact on the group’s financial reporting and leading implementation.

As our ideal candidate, you are…

• A strong communicator; you clearly express your thoughts in conversation as well as write and present in a persuasive and influencing manner.
• An active listener; you seek to understand and listen to others in a non-judgmental way.
• Detail oriented; you focus on detailed accuracy when dealing with a high volume of work.
• A creative thinker; you identify new ideas, techniques and opportunities to improve performance and productivity.
• A leader; you develop or improve the skills of others through effective coaching and guidance.

Essential Requirements

• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive financial reporting experience including investment accounting, consolidations and foreign currency translation
• Satisfactory verification of criminal record check.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Programs (Outlook, Word, Access, Teams, SharePoint and PowerPoint) and accounting software (Caseware, NewStar, Yardi or similar).

What We Value

• Creating trusting and successful working relationships.
• Setting clear, measurable and achievable goals.
• Cooperating with team members in an open, positive and respectful manner.
• Taking responsibility for the outcomes of decisions and actions.
• Staying current with technical job skills.

Working Conditions

You primarily work in an office setting Hours are primarily regular business hours with occasional evenings or weekends being required. Overtime may occasionally be required.