This is a newly created leadership role for a senior finance professional who thrives in a fast-moving, evolving environment. 

As Corporate Accounting Manager, you will take ownership of the day-to-day corporate accounting function, while providing leadership, direction, and oversight to a small team of accounting administrators. This role is hands-on, but also requires the ability to step back, identify gaps, and drive process improvement.

Working closely with the Controller, you will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and scalability of financial operations, while helping to build stronger structures and controls to support the company’s continued growth.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide direct leadership and oversight of Corporate Accounting 
• Lead the month-end close process, in partnership with the Controller, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial statements 
• Coordinate close timelines and deliverables across all accounting functions 
• Review journal entries, reconciliations, and period-end reporting 
• Manage the full lifecycle of fixed assets and debt 
• Maintain the integrity of the accounting system, including oversight and governance of the chart of accounts 
• Oversee and review GST, HST, and PST filings
• Act as a subject matter expert in provincial tax and regulatory requirements, and research and interpret changes across jurisdictions 
• Lead all First Nations partnership invoicing and commission calculations 
• Support and coordinate external year-end processes and act as a key internal contact for auditors and advisors 
• Oversee CRA correspondence and compliance activities, escalating complex or unusual matters as required 
• Support the development and implementation of policies and procedures, in collaboration with the Controller 
• Support audit readiness and working paper preparation 
• Partner with operations teams to resolve transactional issues 
• Identify and implement opportunities to better leverage financial systems, automation, and reporting tools 
• Champion process improvements across the finance function 
• Identify and escalate risks, discrepancies, and control gaps to the Controller with proposed solutions.

What You Bring:

Required 

• • CPA designation (or actively pursuing with strong practical experience), is considered a strong asset 
  • 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years in a leadership capacity 
  • Proven ownership of full-cycle accounting, including month-end close and transactional oversight 
  • Strong experience managing and developing teams
  • Demonstrated ability to build, improve, and enforce accounting processes and internal controls 
  • Experience operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment 
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a bias toward action and accountability 

Preferred 

• • Experience in oil & gas or heavy civil construction would be considered an asset 
  • Experience with job costing accounting 
  • Experience supporting audit readiness or external audits 
  • Experience working with Explorer Contract Manager (Eclipse) or similar ERP systems 

Position:        Corporate Accounting Manager 

Location:       Edmonton, AB (Full time In-Office) 

Department:  Finance 

Reports To:    Controller 

Status:          Full-Time 

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