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About the Role
This role supports assigned legal entities through strong governance, financial oversight, and timely, decision-useful insights for senior stakeholders. It is ideal for a finance professional with strong legal entity controllership experience, sound technical accounting judgment, and the ability to partner across various departments in a highly regulated financial services environment.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day accounting and financial reporting activities for assigned entities, including monitoring daily cash positions, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.
- Lead end-to-end month-end and quarter-end close activities, ensuring timely execution, disciplined governance, and effective identification, escalation, and resolution of accounting and reporting issues.
- Deliver rigorous balance sheet and income statement analysis, synthesizing financial movements into clear, decision-useful insights and commentary for senior management and key stakeholders.
- Complete regulatory returns and prepare impact assessments for new regulatory pronouncements and accounting standards.
- Complete income tax calculations for assigned entities.
- Complete financial statements under IFRS and provide audit support.
- Champion process improvement initiatives across the controllership function, including automation, standardization, and adoption of AI-enabled solutions (Copilot, Power BI, etc.) to enhance efficiency, control effectiveness, and reporting quality.
- Manage deliverables and projects while remaining flexible and responsive to shifting priorities.
Requirements
- 6-8 years of controllership experience in Canada within the financial services industry.
- Knowledge of Oracle financial applications.
- Ability to function independently and collaborate in a team environment.
- Strong control mindset, sound professional judgment, and the ability to identify, escalate, and resolve issues in a timely manner.
Skills
- Strong governance
- Financial oversight
- Decision-useful insights
- Legal entity controllership
- Technical accounting judgment
- Partnership across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Risk, Compliance, Operations
- Accounting
- Financial reporting
- Regulatory reporting
- IFRS
- U.S. GAAP
- BNY policies
- Balance sheet analysis
- Income statement analysis
- Regulatory returns
- Impact assessments
- Income tax calculations
- Financial statements
- Audit support
- Process improvement
- Automation
- Standardization
- AI-enabled solutions (Copilot, Power BI, etc.)
- Efficiency enhancement
- Control effectiveness
- Reporting quality
- Deliverable management
- Project management
- Flexibility
- Responsiveness
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Attention-to-detail
- Writing skills
- Communication skills
Location
- Toronto, Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- 6-8 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- CA or CPA Canada designation
About the Company
- Highly regulated financial services environment.