THE FUNCTION’S RAISON D’ÊTRE:
Reporting to the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, the person’s main responsibility will be to plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate operations related to financial services and accounting.
More specifically, the chosen person will have to:
- Assist operations managers in achieving financial performance;
- Alert and report to the management committee any critical trends concerning the company’s financial performance;
- Prepare monthly financial statements and corresponding analysis reports;
- Participate in the budgeting and financial planning process, providing analysis and forecasts;
- In collaboration with the Richmond and Sherbrooke teams, coordinate the development of the annual budget and ensure its timely completion;
- Regularly monitor the budget with the various departments;
- Prepare documentation for annual audits of Canadian operations;
- Assist the management team in preparing requests for capitalization projects;
- Track capital expenditures and other projects (e.g. tool manufacturing, R&D, training, grants, etc.);
- Validate the cost price of the main products manufactured at the plant;
- Ensure internal control of financial activities at plant level.
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting;
- CPA accounting designation required;
- 7 to 9 years’ experience in a similar position;
- Experience in manufacturing companies;
- Knowledge of integrated management systems;
- Fluency in spoken and written French and English;
- Strong analytical skills;
- Meticulous, systematic, organized & autonomous;
- Leader with good communication skills;
- Good priority management.