4/20/26

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Job Type: DTTL - Secondment Work Model: Remote Reference code: 132275 Primary Location: Toronto, ON All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Brossard, QC; Burlington, ON; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Halifax, NS; Ottawa, ON; Vancouver, BC

What will your typical day look like?

We are seeking a highly strategic Lead Controller to oversee financial governance, gross budget management, contract oversight, sta􀆯ing coordination, and operational execution across GCS Delivery-with a primary focus on the Ascend suite. This role serves as the central integrator across global stakeholders, ensuring transparency, predictability, and disciplined stewardship across a multi-year investment portfolio that spans technology, operations, and delivery programs

Strategic Leadership & Advisory
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Global COO teams, MF COOs, DTech, GCS Delivery leaders, and Finance executives.
• Maintain a unified, enterprise view of operational performance, financial posture, risks, and cost drivers across Ascend and related delivery programs.
• Redesign contracting, staffing, and reporting workflows to streamline execution and enable faster, more transparent decision-making.
• Accelerate automation and standardization of key financial and operational processes.

Gross Budget Management - GCS Delivery (Including Ascend)
• Lead end-to-end gross budget stewardship for all GCS Delivery, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, delivery expectations, and multi-year investment plans.
• Integrate Ascend budget management-including contracts, sta􀆯ing, technology spend, and operational allocations-into a single consolidated governance framework.
• Partner with Global, MF, and DTech teams to validate assumptions, track run rates, manage interdependencies, and mitigate budgetary risk.
• Deliver executive-ready insights on spend trajectory, forecast accuracy, operational impacts, and scenario planning across the full GCS Delivery portfolio.
• Ensure alignment of gross budget decisions to categories, LTP guardrails, and investment summit priorities.

Investment Model & Governance
• Lead financial planning, multi-year modeling, and cost validation cycles.
• Conduct deep cost and trend analyses across global instances to surface insights and optimization opportunities.
• Drive cost optimization initiatives aligned with category strategy and operational delivery needs.

Contract, Staffing & Resource Oversight
• Serve as the single point of integration for contracts, SOWs, staffing pipelines, and resource allocations.
• Reconcile commitments vs. delivery outcomes, track burn and variances, and surface risks early with mitigation plans.
• Operate a centralized intake and approval process ensuring consistent governance and transparency for all contract and staffing actions.

Investment Summit & Chargeback Framework
• Lead development of financial models, scenarios, and executive materials for the annual Investment Summit.
• Define, implement, and manage cost allocation and recharge methodologies in partnership with DTTL Finance and MF leaders.
• Ensure accuracy, transparency, and consistency across cross-MF chargebacks and allocation cycles.

Team Leadership & Operating Model
• Build and lead a cross-functional team spanning finance, contracts, workforce planning, and operations.
• Establish clear, predictable operating rhythms: cadence reviews, portfolio check-ins, monthly/quarterly cycles, and retrospectives.
• Foster a high-trust, collaborative team culture anchored in clarity, accountability, and shared purpose.

About the team

Deloitte's Global Consulting Services professionals support our global businesses to drive impact and create enduring value for clients in Strategy, Risk & Transactions (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T). We deliver purpose-driven services and solutions and provide a consistent, best-in-class "One Deloitte" experience around the world.

Enough about us, let's talk about you
• Must be SM level
• Proven leadership of cross-functional or distributed teams
• Strong executive communication and presentation abilities
• Advanced financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario planning expertise
• Experience managing large-scale budgets in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Operational transformation and process redesign capability
• Deep collaboration skills across Finance, Technology, Operations, Procurement
• Familiarity with chargeback models, allocation methodologies, and contract structures

What Success Looks Like
• A unified financial and operational governance model across GCS Delivery
• Transparent, predictable budget and burn management
• Streamlined contract, staffing, and reporting workflows
• High-quality insights that shape portfolio and investment decisions
• A cohesive, high-performing team with strong operating rhythms

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $104,000 - $215,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. On top of our regular paid vacation days, some examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days", dedicated days of for learning (known as Development and Innovation Days), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.