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Controller - 19124
Job Description
Our client is a growing leader in the industry, with operations spanning multiple entities specializing in high-end custom glasswork, fabrication, and installation services. They are on an ambitious growth trajectory, with plans to significantly expand their operations and streamline their corporate structure within the next five years. This dynamic environment offers a rare opportunity to lead a corporate-wide accounting function while shaping the future of a thriving organization.
The Controller will be responsible for overseeing the accounting department, ensuring compliance, and supporting strategic growth initiatives, including preparing for the planned amalgamation of the company’s entities.
Controller responsibilities:
- Lead and supervise the corporate accounting team, ensuring operational efficiency and accuracy.
- Oversee financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance across multiple entities.
- Standardize and streamline accounting practices to support business integration and scalability.
- Collaborate with the leadership team.
- Prepare year-end working paper files and coordinate with external accountants for review engagements and notice-to-reader statements.
- Provide mentorship and development opportunities for accounting staff.
- Contribute to strategic planning and decision-making as a member of the leadership team.
- A CPA designation in good standing with CPA Alberta.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in accounting leadership roles.
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting standards and regulatory compliance.
- Proven experience in managing accounting operations for multiple entities.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- The discussed salary range is negotiable, depending on experience.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Opportunities for career growth, including potential progression to Director or VP of Corporate Services.
- A supportive and collaborative work environment.
Meet Your Recruiter
Lindie De Gouveia
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Accounting & Finance
With 8 years of experience in agency recruiting and 15 years working in corporate roles, Lindie has sat on both sides of the table, giving her a deep understanding of the needs and challenges of her clients. Drawing on her expertise as a Branch Manager in a nationally recognized recruitment agency, combined with hands-on experience in finance and risk management, she specializes in the placement of accounting and finance professionals in Alberta.
Having managed staff of her own, Lindie has a demonstrated ability to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams—and now helps her clients do the same. She is highly detail-oriented, which shines through in her incisive questions to clients and the precision of her interviewing and job matching skills. She appreciates the dynamic nature of recruitment, including adapting to her clients’ evolving needs and the ever-changing job market.
Lindie made the move to Canada from South Africa in 2023. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in Business Management and Industrial Psychology, further enriching her ability to understand the human dynamics involved in recruitment, including personality ‘fit’ in the workplace. Outside of work, she keeps active with her teenager, balancing school, sports and outdoor activities.
