Manager, Financial Reporting & ComplianceGestionnaire, divulgation financière et conformité

Aliaxis

About The Position

The Manager, Financial Reporting & Compliance is a key leadership role within the finance function, responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of financial reporting across North American operations. This role provides oversight of consolidated reporting processes and acts as the final level of review and control prior to submission to the Group, ensuring compliance with IFRS, Group accounting manual, and any regulatory reporting requirements. The role leads a team and serves as a trusted advisor to both the accounting function and the business, challenging assumptions, validating results, and ensuring alignment with the company’s accounting policies and external reporting requirements, including the review of financial statements and preparation of disclosure notes. This position reports to the Director, Corporate Controller, and also manages a team of finance professionals.

Requirements

Professional Accountant (i.e. CPA - CA) with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Minimum of 10 years accounting experience and at least 5 years management level experience in external audit and/or a manufacturing and publicly reported company (an asset).
Comprehensive understanding of GAAP, IFRS, and other applicable financial reporting standards.
Clear and effective communication with stakeholders and team members.
Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills; able to work effectively across departments and international teams.
Dynamic, critical thinking skills, with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
Strong people management, motivational and coaching skills.
Adaptable and flexible in a changing environment
Understands the broad commercial context and is business savvy
Owns processes and frameworks and drives continuous improvement
Ability to create trust and credibility to rightly influence and challenge business partners
Provide insightful reporting to enable effective decision making
Dynamic, critical thinking skills, with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
Strong people management, motivational and coaching skills.
Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of management.
Solid leadership and analytical skills.
A demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality of information at all times.
A reputation for being self-driven, resourceful and able to work well both independently and as part of a team.
Excellent leadership, proactive and self-motivated; excellent organizational skills, and detail-orientation are all essential.
Adaptable and flexible in a changing environment
Bilingualism (French and English).
Highly skilled in both written and oral communication with a talent for crafting and delivering messages to all company stakeholders.
Understands the broad commercial context and is business savvy
Owns processes and frameworks and drives continuous improvement
Ability to create trust and credibility to rightly influence and challenge business partners
Provide insightful reporting to enable effective decision making

Nice To Haves

experience in external audit and/or a manufacturing and publicly reported company (an asset)

Responsibilities

Review and assist in the completion of the consolidated and individual statutory financial statements, accompanying note disclosures and management commentary to financial statements for all NA legal entities.
Lead and manage the preparation and review of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual financial reporting process for all North American legal entities, including holding companies, submitted to the Group
Oversee the consolidation of North American entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, completeness, and consistency across reporting units
Ensure adherence to tight reporting timelines while maintaining high-quality deliverables
Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data through robust controls, reconciliations, and variance analysis, proactively addressing discrepancies.
Ensure accurate consolidation data: trial balances, disclosures, commentary, and intercompany eliminations.
Review prepared commentary on monthly financial statements by business units and company including key financial results, variances, and trends
Challenge both the accounting team and business stakeholders on accuracy of financial results, completeness of accruals and estimates, appropriateness of judgments and assumptions
Coordinate with other departments and business units to gather and analyse consolidated financial results, identifying key trends, variances, and insights to support decision-making.
Proactively identify inconsistencies, risks, and unusual transactions, ensuring issues are resolved prior to reporting.
Ensure proper documentation of any differences between NA local accounting policy and the Global financial statement packages.
Maintain and enhance financial reporting controls (including documentation, review processes, and audit readiness)
Support internal and external audits by ensuring documentation and explanations are robust and defensible
Provide expert guidance on complex and non-routine transactions in close collaboration with the business and Group finance teams, ensuring alignment with accounting standards and organizational objectives.
Partner with the Group on the implementation of new accounting standards.
Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for reporting and consolidation activities.
Set clear expectations for quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Foster a culture of ownership, rigor, and professional skepticism.
Review the completion of various government forms and industry surveys
Support and collaborate with various finance departments to drive organizational and department goals and objectives.
Ensure the integrity of chart of accounts mapping between local and group levels, maintaining consistency and accuracy in hierarchies and internal reports.