Controller, Accounting, Financial Reporting

Lead accounting and reporting for a growing multi-entity group

Mississauga, ON (in office)

PRI is a multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consulting firm with offices across British Columbia, Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, and part of a group of related companies spanning engineering consulting, manufacturing, and construction. We are seeking a Controller to lead accounting, close, and financial reporting across the group’s entities, and to build the finance function the group needs as it grows toward 300 people.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will own the monthly close and consolidated reporting for several legal entities, lead a small accounting team, run the audit and tax cycles, and keep the systems, controls, and intercompany accounting clean across companies with different business models. You will be the CFO’s operating partner in finance: the person who makes sure the numbers are right, on time, and useful, and who turns a fast-growing group’s accounting into a reliable, scalable function.

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close for each entity and the consolidated group, to a fixed calendar, with full reconciliations and review.
• Prepare consolidated and entity financial statements under ASPE, including intercompany eliminations, allocations, and management fees.
• Own project accounting for the engineering firm: revenue recognition on time-and-materials, fixed-fee, and percentage-of-completion work, WIP and unbilled, and project cost reporting.
• Own accounting for the manufacturing and construction entities, including inventory, cost of goods sold, job costing, and holdbacks.
• Oversee accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing, cash application, and payroll accounting, and manage cash forecasting with the CFO.

• Deliver monthly management reporting: entity and consolidated results, margins by practice and sector, utilization and realization, variance analysis, and KPI dashboards.
• Lead the annual audit or review engagement and all corporate tax, GST/HST and PST, and other regulatory filings for each entity, working with external accountants.
• Support banking reporting and covenant compliance, and prepare lender and shareholder reporting packages.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and the financial modelling behind pricing, hiring, and acquisition decisions.

• Own the finance side of the ERP (Deltek Vantagepoint) and the accounting systems of the other entities, including the chart of accounts, project structures, and month-end processes.
• Design and maintain internal controls, approval workflows, and documented procedures appropriate to a multi-entity private group.
• Lead, develop, and schedule the accounting team, including project accounting, AR/AP, payroll and benefits, and financial analysis.
• Lead finance integration of acquired companies: opening balances, system migration, policy alignment, and first close.

• CPA designation (CPA, CA, CMA, or CGA).
• 8 or more years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 3 years as a Controller or Assistant Controller with ownership of month-end close and financial statements.
• Experience accounting for multiple legal entities, including consolidations and intercompany transactions.
• Strong working knowledge of ASPE, Canadian corporate tax and sales tax compliance, and the audit or review process.
• Experience leading a small accounting team.
• Advanced Excel and strong ERP skills, with the ability to design processes and reports, not just operate the system.
• A builder’s mindset: comfortable improving processes, setting controls, and bringing order to a fast-growing group.

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