Vice President, Canada Finance - Mississauga, Canada - Kressler Recruitment

Kressler Recruitment

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer the VP Finance, Canada is a business partner to the Managing Director, Canada, helping to drive performance management, leading the planning and analysis function, and providing quality management information to enable delivery of optimized business results, while also leading Canada's accounting, reporting, treasury, and sales and indirect tax functions.

This role also has direct oversight of fixed asset processing and the credit, billing and collection functions.

This is a key role on the leadership team, working in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with sales, operations, marketing, product management, pricing, IT and others to drive process and results improvement.

This role also interacts with customers, hotel and supply partners and other vendors. This role is based in Toronto and also has a reporting line to the Managing Director, Canada.

Key Job Responsibilities:

World Class Service:

Business Relationships and Connectivity
Develops strong relationships with peers and team leaders, which can be evidenced by regular interactions, development of ongoing work to support consideration of business alternatives, problem solving and proactive collaboration.
Set the tone and example for collaborative relationships / relationship building across Finance and Accounting teams and with all key business partners.
Develop and maintain strong relationship with IT leader and team, including taking a leadership role in representing finance and accounting in the evaluation and decision making related to new systems.

Solutions Focus:

Deliver timely and accurate reporting of monthly, quarterly and annual results
Manage, track and assist ensuring groups are meeting business metrics and annual P&L targets
Manage treasury operations including efficient and effective cash flow (actual and forecasts)
Develop and monitor the company's annual budget and periodic forecasts setting timelines, and acting as project manager for the company, ensuring all budgets are accurate, comprehensive and completed on time
Conduct periodic full P & L forecasting process for all operations divisions
Oversee the day to day operations of the accounting team to maintain the general ledgers, perform the monthly close and reporting processes
Coordinate all requests from field operations and manage the workflow of adhoc projects and reporting requests including providing responses to RFP's as required
Oversee management of Accounts Receivable, Billing and Credit and Collections teams including policies for customer credit management
Oversee corporate insurance policies in conjunction with corporate
Lead monthly financial reviews including organizing presentations for reporting to senior management
Oversee corporate credit card management and expense reporting process, including policies and procedures
Assist with procurement tasks to lead cost reduction efforts
Achieve expected qualitative and quantitative results
Perform other duties and projects, as required

Build High Performing Team:

Hire, develop, lead and motivate a qualified team necessary to support the growth of the business and meet the needs of internal and external customers
Create and maintain a structure that results in effective delivery of services to the entire organization
Promote and drive professional development and training efforts to help improve overall business acumen, technical knowledge of GAAP, and service skills of the team.
Align organization with current and nearterm strategic and operational goals of business.
Enhance teamwork to enable continuous support and 'best practices' to be utilized across teams.

Job Qualifications:

CPA or equivalent accounting designation required
BA/BS Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required, MBA preferred
15+ years of accounting experience with at least 8 years of managerial accounting experience
Experience as the VP finance, controller or other senior level accounting executive
Experience managing financial systems implementations and upgrades
Experience with redesigning and improving processes, procedures, and controls
US GAAP knowledge required
Oracle or other large ERP system accounting expertise
Ability to act independently while communicating key issues to the senior financial management team and other vested parties
Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast paced and evolving environment
Management experience of a large group and hands on experience with G/L, A/P, A/R, billing, credit and collections and fixed assets
Results oriented, organized and highly detailed
Preference given to those with hospitality or servicebased organizations
Effective written and verbal communication skills