Controller

Kassen Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kassen Recruitment is seeking an experienced Controller to lead the Canadian finance team. This hands-on role covers budgeting, internal controls, and coordination with tax, audit and cross-border stakeholders.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive financial strategy, improve processes, and ensure compliance with Canadian requirements while supporting international operations.

Qualifications

• CPA designation or an equivalent recognized professional accounting qualification.
• Progressive finance and accounting experience, including previous experience in a senior finance, controllership, or comparable leadership position.
• Strong understanding of Canadian accounting requirements, with exposure to international accounting standards considered an asset.
• Experience supporting organizations with international operations, multiple entities, or cross-border stakeholders is highly valued.
• Solid knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, audit, tax compliance, internal controls, and financial risk management.
• Strong financial analysis skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations for business leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and confidence working with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across different teams, functions, and cultures.
• Strong presentation and executive reporting capabilities.
• A technology-oriented mindset with an interest in improving and automating inefficient finance processes.
• Practical, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership in a changing and fast‑paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain financial processes and internal controls, ensuring alignment with organizational policies and applicable Canadian requirements.
• Partner with business leaders to develop annual budgets, forecasts, and financial plans for Canadian operations.
• Manage the budget-to-actual reporting process, investigate significant variances, and provide meaningful insights to leadership.
• Analyze financial performance, monitor expenditures, and identify areas requiring greater financial oversight or cost control.
• Coordinate recurring management reporting and ensure financial information is delivered accurately and within established timelines.
• Work with local and international stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate financial and operational risks.
• Support corporate tax, intercompany, and related compliance activities in collaboration with internal and external specialists.
• Ensure financial practices remain compliant with applicable accounting, regulatory, and statutory requirements.
• Coordinate external audit and tax activities and act as a key finance contact for professional advisors.
• Provide guidance and oversight to other members of the finance function.
• Prepare financial analyses, executive-level reports, presentations, and other materials to support senior leadership decisions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline finance processes and use technology to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

Skills

Financial analysis

Executive reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication with senior stakeholders

Education

CPA designation or equivalent

Job description

About the Role

An established organization is seeking an experienced Controller to join its Canadian finance team. This is a key finance leadership position offering exposure to both local operations and a broader international business environment.

The Controller will take ownership of core financial processes, including budgeting, performance reporting, compliance, risk management, audit and tax coordination. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders while helping strengthen financial controls and processes as the Canadian business continues to evolve.

This opportunity is well suited to a hands‑on finance professional who enjoys operating in a dynamic environment, partnering with the business, and improving the way financial information and processes support decision‑making.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and maintain financial processes and internal controls, ensuring alignment with organizational policies and applicable Canadian requirements.
• Partner with business leaders to develop annual budgets, forecasts, and financial plans for Canadian operations.
• Manage the budget-to-actual reporting process, investigate significant variances, and provide meaningful insights to leadership.
• Analyze financial performance, monitor expenditures, and identify areas requiring greater financial oversight or cost control.
• Coordinate recurring management reporting and ensure financial information is delivered accurately and within established timelines.
• Work with local and international stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate financial and operational risks.
• Support corporate tax, intercompany, and related compliance activities in collaboration with internal and external specialists.
• Ensure financial practices remain compliant with applicable accounting, regulatory, and statutory requirements.
• Coordinate external audit and tax activities and act as a key finance contact for professional advisors.
• Provide guidance and oversight to other members of the finance function.
• Prepare financial analyses, executive-level reports, presentations, and other materials to support senior leadership decisions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline finance processes and use technology to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

What You Bring

• CPA designation or an equivalent recognized professional accounting qualification.
• Progressive finance and accounting experience, including previous experience in a senior finance, controllership, or comparable leadership position.
• Strong understanding of Canadian accounting requirements, with exposure to international accounting standards considered an asset.
• Experience supporting organizations with international operations, multiple entities, or cross-border stakeholders is highly valued.
• Solid knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, audit, tax compliance, internal controls, and financial risk management.
• Strong financial analysis skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations for business leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and confidence working with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across different teams, functions, and cultures.
• Strong presentation and executive reporting capabilities.
• A technology-oriented mindset with an interest in improving and automating inefficient finance processes.
• Practical, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership in a changing and fast‑paced environment.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to take on broad financial ownership within a Canadian operation while gaining exposure to an international business environment. You’ll work closely with senior decision-makers, contribute to the development of effective finance processes, and play an important role in strengthening financial reporting, controls, planning, and overall business performance.

For an experienced finance professional looking for a combination of hands‑on controllership, strategic exposure, and cross‑functional partnership, this role provides the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while continuing to develop professionally.