Finance Leader – Project Systems & Fixed Assets

Loblaw; Brampton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Loblaw Companies Limited in Canada is seeking a Manager, Central Services to lead the day-to-day delivery of Project Systems and Fixed Assets services, ensuring accurate and timely execution.

You will manage a team and service providers, align with Finance colleagues, and drive process standardization and continuous improvement. This role supports risk controls, audit readiness and performance across multiple business units, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in Finance, Accounting, Record-to-Report, Shared Services or a related discipline, including people leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of Project Systems and/or Fixed Assets accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, period-end processes and financial controls.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume financial operations with competing priorities and critical deadlines.
• Experience working with offshore and/or third-party service providers and managing operational performance, issues and service expectations.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, risk management and audit requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements, standardization and automation opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day delivery of Project Systems and Fixed Assets services, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and adherence to established service and control requirements.
• Set clear expectations across the team, actively managing workload, capacity, priorities and critical deadlines to maintain service continuity.
• Monitor service performance, outstanding items and operational exceptions, taking timely action to address performance gaps and escalating material issues as required.
• Maintain effective operating procedures, review requirements and cross-training to support consistent execution and resilience across critical activities.
• Manage Project Systems activities across SDM, LCL and LRE Minor Capital, including project creation and maintenance, journal entries, reconciliations, settlements and reporting.
• Manage Fixed Assets accounting and reporting across LCL, SDM and Franchise operations, including reconciliations, depreciation, journal entries, financial reporting and applicable budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure financial transactions, reconciliations and reporting are complete, accurate and appropriately reviewed in accordance with established accounting policies, controls and approval requirements.
• Resolve settlement errors, aged reconciling items, reporting discrepancies and recurring operational issues, escalating material or systemic matters to the Director.
• Manage day-to-day performance of offshore and third-party service providers supporting Central Services against established service levels, controls and operating requirements.
• Review provider performance, quality, capacity and operational issues, ensuring timely resolution and escalation where service expectations are not achieved.
• Work with service providers to identify root causes of recurring issues and implement corrective actions and process improvements.
• Maintain clear accountability between provider activities and responsibilities retained within the Central Services team.
• Ensure financial and operational controls are consistently executed across Project Systems and Fixed Assets activities.
• Review key reconciliations, journal entries, exceptions and other control activities in accordance with established review and approval requirements.
• Maintain operational audit readiness by ensuring supporting documentation, reconciliations and audit requests are complete, accurate and delivered on time.
• Identify control deficiencies, financial and operational risks and recurring errors, ensuring timely remediation and escalation of material issues.
• Identify and implement opportunities to standardize and simplify processes, reduce manual effort and improve accuracy, productivity and service quality.
• Support automation, system and process improvements by providing operational expertise, testing changes and driving adoption within the team.
• Partner with Finance, Technology, business teams and service providers to resolve operational issues and improve end-to-end process effectiveness.
• Provide the Director with clear visibility to service performance, risks, recurring issues and improvement opportunities.
• Lead, coach and develop the Central Services team, setting clear expectations for performance, accountability, financial accuracy and service delivery.
• Build technical capability, problem-solving skills and continuous‑improvement discipline across the team.
• Foster a collaborative culture of ownership, timely execution and constructive escalation.
• Maintain effective cross‑training, knowledge transfer and development plans to strengthen team capability and service continuity.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

University degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business

Tools

SAP

Excel

Enterprise financial/reporting tools

Job description

Loblaw Companies Limited in Canada is seeking a Manager, Central Services to lead the day-to-day delivery of Project Systems and Fixed Assets services, ensuring accurate and timely execution.

You will manage a team and service providers, align with Finance colleagues, and drive process standardization and continuous improvement. This role supports risk controls, audit readiness and performance across multiple business units, with travel as needed.