Division Controller

Job Number: J1026-0279 Job Type: Full Time Job Category: Accounting & Finance Salary: Open

Division Controller

Title: Division Controller
Location: Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC (Hybrid)
Status: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: Competitive + Bonus

RESPONSIBILITIES :
Corporate Reporting & IFRS Compliance
• Lead Financial Reporting: Direct the preparation and review of accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and management reports.
• Ensure IFRS Compliance: Maintain compliance with IFRS, ASSA ABLOY Accounting Policies, statutory requirements, and other applicable regulatory standards.
• Maintain Accounting Governance: Develop, implement, and maintain accounting policies, procedures, reporting calendars, and documentation standards.
• Deliver Stakeholder Reporting: Ensure complete, accurate, and timely statutory, corporate, and stakeholder reporting.
Financial Planning, Performance Management & P&L Reporting
• Lead Planning & Forecasting: Own the annual budgeting process and develop and maintain rolling financial forecasts.
• Direct P&L Reporting: Lead monthly P&L reporting, financial reviews, and analysis against budget, forecast, and prior-year performance.
• Manage KPIs: Develop, monitor, and report financial and operational KPIs that support accountability and performance improvement.
• Identify Risks & Opportunities: Assess financial trends, risks, opportunities, and business drivers and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Support Strategic Decisions: Provide financial insight for strategic planning, investment evaluation, capital allocation, pricing, and management decision-making.
Cost Accounting & Inventory Management
• Ensure Accurate Inventory Valuation: Oversee inventory valuation, accounting, reconciliations, and related controls in accordance with corporate accounting policies.
• Manage Inventory Reserves: Oversee obsolescence provisions, excess and slow-moving inventory assessments, and inventory reserve methodologies.
• Monitor Working Capital: Track inventory turnover, days inventory on hand, product availability, and working capital performance.
• Analyze Product Profitability: Evaluate product margins, cost drivers, landed costs, freight, duties, rebates, and other acquisition costs.
• Partner Across Functions: Work with Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, Sales, and Commercial teams to optimize inventory, availability, margins, and working-capital utilization.

Transactional Accounting Oversight
• Oversee Finance Operations: Provide governance and oversight of Accounts Receivable, collections, Accounts Payable, vendor processes, general ledger, and period-end close activities.
• Manage Cash & Working Capital: Oversee bank reconciliations, liquidity, cash management, and working-capital optimization.
• Oversee Payroll Coordination: Provide financial oversight and coordination of payroll processes, where applicable. • Strengthen Accountability: Establish clear ownership, approval authorities, segregation of duties, and accountability across the finance team.
• Improve Processes: Drive standardization, automation, data integrity, and continuous improvement across transactional finance processes.
Internal Controls & Risk Management
• Lead the Control Framework: Design, implement, maintain, and monitor an effective internal-control framework. • Manage Financial Risk: Identify, assess, mitigate, and report enterprise and financial risks. • Monitor Compliance: Ensure compliance with corporate policies, delegated authorities, and internal controls. • Prevent & Detect Fraud: Maintain appropriate fraud-prevention, detection, investigation-support, and remediation processes.
• Test & Remediate Controls: Coordinate control testing, address deficiencies, and report progress to leadership, corporate stakeholders, and Audit as required.
• Promote Accountability: Foster a culture of transparency, sound judgment, ethical conduct, and continuous improvement.
External Audit & Taxation
• Lead External Audit: Act as the primary liaison with external auditors and coordinate annual audits, interim reviews, audit schedules, supporting documentation, and management responses.
• Ensure Tax Compliance: Oversee corporate income tax compliance, filings, provisions, disclosures, and applicable federal and provincial requirements.
• Manage Indirect Taxes: Oversee GST/HST, QST, and other applicable indirect-tax obligations. • Coordinate External Advisors: Work with external tax advisors, auditors, and tax authorities to ensure efficient and value-added outcomes.
• Manage Tax Risk & Planning: Monitor legislative changes, assess tax risks and opportunities, and support appropriate tax-planning and business-structure initiatives.
Governance & Corporate Administration
• Support Corporate Governance: Ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements, internal policies, approval authorities, and delegated limits.
• Exercise Signing Authority: Act as a designated signing authority in accordance with corporate policies and approved authorization limits.
• Safeguard Corporate Resources: Ensure appropriate stewardship of corporate assets, resources, records, and financial commitments.
• Oversee Plans & Administration: Provide oversight of pension-plan administration, employee benefit plans, and selected corporate administrative functions.
• Promote Ethical Governance: Support policy development and reinforce accountability, ethical conduct, and sound governance practices across the organization.
Systems & Data Governance
• Govern Financial Systems: Provide oversight of financial systems, ERP governance, access, configuration, and finance-related process design.
• Protect Data Quality: Ensure the integrity, security, completeness, and quality of financial and management data. • Leverage Technology: Use technology, automation, and analytics to improve reporting, controls, productivity, and decision-making.
• Support ERP Transformation: Provide financial leadership for ERP planning, data preparation, testing, implementation, training, and post-launch stabilization.

Leadership Responsibilities
• Serve as a Trusted Partner: Contribute financial and business expertise to the development and execution of organizational strategy.
• Lead Growth & Change: Support organizational growth, transformation, business improvement, and change initiatives.
• Drive Collaboration: Promote cross-functional alignment and financial discipline across the organization. • Develop Finance Talent: Set clear expectations, coach and mentor finance employees, and build team capability and succession strength.
• Strengthen Leadership Culture: Contribute to a high-performing, transparent, accountable, and collaborative leadership team.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; a CPA designation is not required.
• Experience: Ten or more years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including significant financial leadership responsibility in a manufacturing, distribution, or comparable business environment. • Financial Reporting: Advanced knowledge of IFRS, corporate reporting, financial statements, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, P&L management, and financial analysis.
• Cost & Inventory Accounting: Strong experience with product costing, inventory valuation, reserves, margins, landed costs, and working-capital management.
• Controls, Audit & Tax: Demonstrated leadership of internal controls, risk management, external audit, corporate taxation, and regulatory compliance.
• Systems & Analytics: Strong ERP, financial-systems, Excel, reporting, data-governance, and analytical capabilities; experience supporting ERP implementation or transformation is an asset.
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead, develop, and hold teams accountable while influencing peers and senior stakeholders.
• Communication: Bilingual in English and French, with strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, and business-partnering skills.
• Judgment & Integrity: Exceptional judgment, discretion, ethical standards, resilience, and the ability to manage complex priorities and deadlines.

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