Senior Manager, Finance (Controllership)

10/19/26

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Job Type: Permanent Work Model: Hybrid Reference code: 135583 Primary Location: Toronto, ON All Available Locations: Toronto, ON

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Are you a finance leader who enjoys serving as a trusted advisor and collaborating across teams to solve complex challenges and deliver practical solutions? If so, this role may be for you.

What will your typical day look like?

This role will include, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Controllership & Financial Close Leadership

• Drive end-to-end Controllership activities for period-end and year-end close, ensuring balance sheet integrity, sound accounting judgments, and the timely identification and resolution of financial reporting risks.
• Provide senior-level review and challenge of complex analysis and estimates, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial results, ensuring issues are escalated with clear conclusions and recommended actions.
• Partner with Finance leaders to maintain service quality, clarify accountabilities, and resolve recurring issues.

Strategic Advisory & Technical Accounting

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Finance and firm leaders on complex transactions, business initiatives, investments, and emerging risks, translating accounting and control requirements into practical business recommendations.
• Lead resolution of significant accounting and operational matters, constructively challenging assumptions and influencing senior stakeholders to achieve appropriate and timely outcomes.
• Provide subject matter expertise on complex accounting matters and transactions, establish well-supported accounting positions, and communicate conclusions and business implications to senior leaders and other stakeholders.

Finance Transformation, Controls & Governance

• Maintain awareness of firm activities, assess their potential impact, and lead the development or enhancement of accounting policies, guidance, and governance.
• Shape and drive the strategic direction for strengthening financial processes and controls, including standardization, automation, and clear roles and accountabilities across Controllership.
• Lead complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives from assessment and design through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.

Team Leadership

• Provide leadership across the Controllership operating model by setting priorities, deploying team capacity, and leading initiatives that strengthen accounting governance, improve quality, and enable higher-value advisory work.
• Develop managers and emerging leaders through apprenticeship, hands-on coaching, delegation, timely feedback, and stretch opportunities, building technical depth and succession across the team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration, and act as a trusted delegate to the Director, Controllership on significant Controllership matters and strategic Finance initiatives.

About the team

This role is part of the Finance Controllership team, which oversees financial accounting across Deloitte. Our dynamic, collaborative team is committed to continuous learning, delivering value-added insights, and improving how we work through process enhancement and automation. Reporting to the Director, Controllership, the Senior Manager will serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor, collaborating across Finance and the firm to resolve complex issues and deliver practical solutions.

Enough about us, let's talk about you

You are someone with these required skills:

• CPA designation and a degree in accounting, business, commerce, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressive finance, controllership, or audit experience in a mid-sized to large organization, including leading teams and developing managers.
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting expertise, with sound judgment on complex matters and clear, well-supported recommendations.
• Experience leading period-end and year-end close, with accountability for balance sheet integrity, key judgments, and financial reporting risks.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate across functions to resolve complex business and accounting matters.
• Proven success leading complex, cross-functional transformation and improvement initiatives from design through adoption.
• Ability to build high-performing teams through apprenticeship, coaching, delegation, and succession development.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, set priorities, make decisions, and present clearly to senior leaders.

It would be great for you to have some of these nice to have's as well:

• Experience with large-scale ERP systems, such as SAP, and cloud-based financial close and reconciliation solutions, such as BlackLine.

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.