Controller (3 Month Contract)

Responsibilities

• Partner with local leadership on financial strategy, planning, budgeting, and business decisions.
• Lead monthly reporting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and financial analysis.
• Oversee accounting operations, month-end/year-end close, financial statements, and internal controls.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of profitability, margins, inventory, and operating performance.
• Oversee accounts payable, receivables, collections, credit, banking, and cash management.
• Coordinate tax filings, government reporting, payroll-related requirements, and external audits.
• Support inventory counts, costing, and other manufacturing finance activities.
• Maintain key financial, contractual, insurance, lease, and corporate records.
• Improve accounting systems, reporting processes, controls, and management information.
• Work closely with Group Finance, auditors, banks, legal advisors, and other external partners.
• Supervise and develop accounting/payroll staff as required.

Experience

• 5+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience, preferably in manufacturing.
• Degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA designation is an asset.
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, cash management, and cost accounting.
• Practical knowledge of inventory control and manufacturing accounting.
• Working knowledge of GAAP and/or IFRS.
• Experience with accounting systems; QuickBooks experience is an asset.
• Experience with external audits, internal controls, tax filings, and regulatory compliance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills.
• Hands-on, organized, and comfortable working directly with senior management.

By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions.

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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present you as a candidate for the foregoing position. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if one is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] .

Vaco by Highspring respects your privacy and is committed to providing transparent notice of our policies in English here and in French here . Additionally, the company uses AI to perform preliminary screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

Having said that Vaco by Highspring believes that the salary range referenced reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).