Our client, a publicly listed global manufacturing company on the TSX is hiring a new Finance Manager for their corporate office.
Position Overview:
The position is an operationally focused corporate role with responsibility of providing financial review and analysis leadership for all global divisions.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership over the financial review and analysis of Budget, Forecasting and Actuals through clear, timely, critical and actionable insight
- Take initiative to improve financial tools, processes, and reports that provide value added analysis and forecast/budget accuracy
- Take on Projects which require original thought problem solving and holistic analysis for large scale investments and strategic decision making
- Complete critical analysis and recommendations with respect to Customer commercial concerns
- Serve as a key resource to the Controllership and accounting department teams (decentralized environment)
- Prepare analysis and presentation material for monthly Executive meetings and quarterly Board of Director Meetings
- Be a key resource in formulating and implementing Corporate Finance initiatives
- Oversight responsibility for strengthening internal controls over financial reporting environment (Bill 198 compliance within a TSX listed public company)
- Research accounting matters and provide solutions for policy and application
- Effectively interact with the Company's external and internal auditors to proactively identify and resolve issues as well as meet key deadlines
Preferred Qualification and Critical Success Factors:
- Accounting designation required
- Experience in the automotive or manufacturing industry is preferred
- Prior experience in a leadership role is preferred
- Experience with SAP is preferred
- Hands-on experience in a financial reporting, planning and analysis role in a decentralized and geographically dispersed environment (automotive manufacturing environment is preferred)
- An independent critical and logical thinker who displays attention to detail
- A high degree of initiative, self-starter nature
- Desire and ability to learn about the business and develop the necessary link between operations and finance
- Displays leadership within a financially driven organization
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and time management skills with the ability to multi-task
- Knowledge of Bill 198 internal control requirements
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Good humoured and a team player
- Global travel is anticipated (up to approximately 25%)