Assistant Controller

Description

• Internal Controls: Identify opportunities to improve finance workflows and reduce duplication of effort across the accounting function.
• Tax Support: Assist with the annual tax filings and reporting requirements.
• Risk Management: Analyze financial policies, processes, and internal controls to advise on improvement opportunities.
• Technical Expert: Provide technical accounting analysis and recommendations as needed, ensuring compliance with Canadian GAAP.
• Team Leadership: Provide formal and informal mentoring, coaching, and leadership to assigned individuals within the finance team.
• Procurement Support: Develop and execute procurement strategies for identifying, selecting, and analyzing corporate suppliers.
• Strategic Insight: Provide thoughtful and detailed variance analysis against prior year, budget, and forecast, identify root causes and insights that drive our executive strategy.
• Audit Oversight: Contribute to and oversee the financial statement audit and other external audits as needed.
• Strategic Automation: Champion AI and automation tools to significantly reduce the financial close cycle time and virtually eliminate routine tasks like data reconciliation and anomaly detection, shifting the team’s focus from data processing to high-value strategic analysis and decision support.
• Integration: Support the implementation of system or business projects, driving adoption of new financial technologies across the organization.
• Performance Optimization: Analyze financial data that takes into account company goals and strategy, providing recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial performance.
• Lead the Close: Oversee and execute all aspects of the monthly and annual close process, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of financial statements.

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to mentor team members and consult with management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail and the ability to interpret complex data.
• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.
• Demonstrated experience in leading process improvement initiatives within a finance function.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present findings clearly to stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (specifically Excel) and Google Suite is required, coupled with a demonstrated aptitude for utilizing AI and automation tools to modernize financial workflows.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• A proactive approach to leveraging AI and automation to solve complex financial problems and modernize workflows.
• Post-secondary education in Business, Finance, or Accounting.
• The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities.
• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation is considered an asset.

Benefits

• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions
• Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership
• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.
• Flexible work hours and hybrid working options
• We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.
• A competitive compensation package
• Employee share purchase plan
• Employee and Family Assistance program
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Generous retirement savings plan
• Our employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes and dance classes.
• Wellness Subsidy

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance