Baker Tilly Windsor is looking for an experienced Finance Director/Controller to join our Baker Tilly Advantage group supporting our clients in an outsourced financial capacity. With a new office located in the heart of Walkerville, we can offer a unique space to come in every day. We offer you a lot of flexibility on where you work, when you work and how you work. We have a great team who works hard and plays hard, including Fridays off in the summer. We’ve thrown axes at the boss (okay, at a picture of the boss), enjoyed wine tours as a group and even spent a day at a watch factory. We respect and promote work-life balance, allowing each of our professionals the ability to schedule their day.

Baker Tilly is one of the largest firms of chartered professional accountants in Canada. We offer the opportunity to pursue your professional accounting career in a large firm with significant resources and mentoring while still enjoying an exceptional work-life balance.

Our unique structure fosters a client-service focus built from local, national and international expertise. We are a proud member of Baker Tilly International, giving us a diversified team of over 25,000 partners and staff spanning 145 countries. Our Windsor office is one of the area’s fastest growing accounting and advisory firms in the area. Collectively, we offer a comprehensive range of accounting, auditing, tax and business advisory services to mid-market commercial clients, their shareholders and families, as well as multi-national businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

• This is a hands-on position that requires transaction processing and account reconciliation skills.
• Overall day-to-day management of the accounting and finance functions of multiple clients in a shared services environment playing the Controller role of your clients
• Participate in client design sessions to analyze requirements and redesign business processes in connection with firm best practices in areas such as chart of account redesign, procure to pay, order to cash, month end close, record to report, etc.
• Lead, manage and coach team members
• Review client’s monthly financial statements including month over month variance analysis and / or actual to budget analysis
• Analyze and interpret financial information for client management and provide actionable insight and decision support
• Continuously identify opportunities to enhance the clients monthly operations and make suggestions for process improvements
• Understand our technology stack and identify additional add-on processes, systems, modules and integrations that can drive month end close efficiencies.
• Define and document repeatable methodologies with appropriate tools and templates that can be leveraged for future projects.
• Establish engagement budgets
• Direct initial assessments, implementations and onboarding of new BT Advantage clients
• Write service agreements and statements of work
• Participate in meetings with new client prospects and in the proposal process

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• CPA is required
• Experience in a public accounting firm, consulting firm or other professional services environment strongly preferred
• Progressive experience in accounting and financial management in a corporate accounting environment, in roles such as accounting manager, assistant controller, controller, or director of finance.
• Strong technical financial accounting (ASPE) knowledge
• Strong management accounting and operational finance knowledge
• Experience in the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function (financial modeling, budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis, etc.)
• Knowledge of accounting/ERP software.
• Proven leadership, management and coaching skills
• Strong time-management and organizational skills with sensitivity to timeframes, budgets, and outcomes across multiple clients/projects.