Strategic Priorities - Building a best-in-class global controllership organization aligned to Husky's long-term growth strategy.
- Accelerating the monthly and quarterly close process while improving the quality, accessibility, and reliability of financial information.
- Modernizing the global finance operating model through standardization, simplification, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Strengthening financial governance, controls, and compliance while reducing complexity and improving efficiency.
- Leveraging technology, ERP capabilities, analytics, and automation to improve productivity and decision support across Finance.
Key Responsibilities - Lead all global accounting, financial reporting, consolidation, controllership, and financial governance activities.
- Ensure the integrity, consistency, and accuracy of financial reporting across all legal entities and business units.
- Deliver timely monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting to executive leadership, the Board of Directors, lenders, and other stakeholders.
- Maintain a strong global control environment while ensuring compliance with IFRS, regulatory requirements, tax authorities, and corporate governance standards.
- Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap to transform Husky's global controllership function.
- Drive process simplification, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across accounting operations.
- Lead initiatives that reduce close timelines, eliminate manual activities, improve data quality, and increase operational efficiency.
- Partner with Information Technology and Finance Systems teams to maximize ERP capabilities and implement leading finance technologies.
- Evaluate opportunities for shared services, intelligent automation, robotic process automation (RPA), AI-enabled finance processes, and outsourcing where appropriate.
Business Partnership - Partner closely with the CFO and executive leadership team to provide financial insight supporting strategic decision making.
- Collaborate with FP&A, Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Procurement, Tax, Treasury, and Human Resources to improve enterprise performance.
- Translate financial information into actionable business insights that improve profitability, working capital, cash flow, and operational performance.
- Support strategic initiatives including acquisitions, integrations, restructuring, capital investments, and global expansion.
Leadership - Build and lead a high-performing global finance organization characterized by accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
- Recruit, develop, coach, and retain exceptional finance talent.
- Foster a culture that embraces innovation, curiosity, learning, and operational excellence.
- Develop future finance leaders through succession planning and leadership development.
Measures of Success Within the first three years, the successful candidate will have:
- Established a globally consistent controllership model supporting all business units.
- Significantly reduced monthly and quarterly close timelines while improving reporting quality.
- Implemented meaningful automation that improves productivity and reduces manual effort.
- Enhanced internal controls and governance while simplifying finance processes.
- Improved financial visibility through modern reporting, dashboards, and analytics.
- Developed Finance into a trusted strategic partner for business leaders globally.
- Built a high-performing leadership team with strong succession capability.
- Earned the confidence of the CEO, CFO, Executive Leadership Team, Board of Directors, and Audit Committee as a strategic advisor.
Preferred Experience - Experience within manufacturing, industrial equipment, automation, or engineered products organizations.
- Experience with modern ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics or equivalent), consolidation systems, business intelligence tools, and finance automation technologies.
- Leadership Competencies
Vacancy: Replacement
Husky Technologies TM offers a competitive compensation and benefits package and excellent opportunities for growth and advancement.
