Job Overview
This role is responsible for ensuring timely, accurate, and disciplined management of Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, cash flow, financial reporting, inventory, and accounting controls.
The successful candidate will be a practical finance leader who can work comfortably at both the detail and management levels—ensuring transactions are processed correctly while providing clear visibility of cash, working capital, risks, and business performance.
This position requires someone who understands that the job is not simply closing the books. It is actively protecting cash, customer relationships, supplier continuity, and the company’s ability to operate.
Key Responsibilities
Transactional Discipline
- Ensure customer invoicing is completed promptly following shipment and required documentation is complete.
- Oversee Accounts Payable processing, approvals, payment scheduling, and vendor account reconciliations.
- Maintain accurate AR and AP aging reports and ensure overdue items are actively managed.
- Lead bank reconciliations, month-end close, account reconciliations, and accurate financial reporting.
- Establish clear, reliable accounting processes, controls, and performance measures.
- Quickly understand existing accounting processes and reporting formats, stabilize the department, and improve processes without disrupting essential daily activities.
- Help transition manual or Excel-based processes into disciplined, ERP-based standard processes over time.
Cash and Working-Capital Management
- Maintain and continuously improve a rolling 13-week cash-flow forecast.
- Actively manage customer collections and work with internal teams to resolve invoicing, shipping, documentation, or account issues quickly.
- Develop payment priorities that protect production continuity, supplier relationships, and cash requirements.
- Provide timely visibility of upcoming cash commitments, collection risks, overdue receivables, and supplier-payment exposure.
- Support management in making informed decisions on working capital, inventory, spending, and cash deployment.
Supplier and Customer Relationship Management
- Build and maintain professional, trusted relationships with customers and suppliers.
- Communicate confidently and respectfully with customers to accelerate payment and resolve account issues.
- Work constructively with suppliers during periods of cash constraint, including negotiating practical payment arrangements when necessary.
- Make credible commitments, communicate proactively, and follow through consistently.
- Protect continuity of supply through sound judgment, strong relationships, and disciplined payment communication.
- Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, and leadership to resolve issues affecting invoicing, payments, margin, cash flow, and customer service.
Financial Leadership and Reporting
- Supervise and develop the accounting team, including AP/AR personnel.
- Produce timely monthly financial statements and management reports.
- Support inventory control, product costing, margin analysis, and operational financial decision-making.
- Coordinate audit, tax, banking, insurance, and other external finance requirements as needed.
- Identify process improvements that strengthen controls, improve timeliness, and reduce manual work.
Qualifications
- CPA designation preferred; equivalent senior accounting and manufacturing-finance experience will be considered.
- 7+ years of progressively responsible accounting or finance experience, including leadership of AP, AR, month-end close, and cash flow.
- Manufacturing, distribution, or inventory-intensive business experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success managing working capital, customer collections, supplier relationships, and cash constraints.
- Strong knowledge of accounting controls, financial reporting, reconciliations, inventory, and costing.
- Experience with ERP systems and advanced Excel-based financial analysis.
- Practical, hands-on leadership style with the ability to move comfortably from detailed transaction issues to management-level decisions.
- Strong communication, judgment, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to build confidence and credibility with customers, suppliers, employees, and senior leadership.
This position offers an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the financial health of our organization through expert management of our accounting functions and strategic financial planning.
Pay: $100,000.00-$134,290.42 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
Work Location: In person
