<p><strong>Ready to take ownership and make your mark?</strong></p><p> Robert Half is partnering with a dynamic, fast-growing company in Downtown Vancouver that’s looking for an <strong>Accounting Manager</strong> to help elevate its finance function. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build scalable systems and processes, enhance internal controls, and bring structure to a growing operation—all while ensuring day-to-day accounting runs smoothly. You’ll lead the month-end close and play a key role in shaping how the company approaches financial reporting as it continues to expand. This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands-on accounting professional who thrives in a growing business and wants to influence how things are done.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Own the month-end close process, including preparation and review of journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statements</li><li>Prepare monthly management reports for operational and executive leadership</li><li>Participate in budgeting and forecasting in partnership with the Controller</li><li>Perform ad hoc financial and variance analysis</li><li>Build and implement accounting policies and standards to ensure compliance with GAAP and other regulatory requirements</li><li>Design and implement effective internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure accurate financial reporting</li><li>Evaluate existing accounting processes and recommend improvements for efficiency and scalability</li><li>Serve as the primary liaison for external audits, managing documentation and addressing auditor requests</li><li>Provide leadership and guidance to junior accounting staff, fostering professional development and maintaining a high-performance team</li><li>Support Finance Department initiatives—such as software and systems implementation, and other departmental or firm-wide improvements—through research, planning, and execution</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Corporate Controller</p><p>Location: Vancouver, BC (hybrid option available)</p><p>Industry: Publicly Listed Company</p><p><br></p><p>Our client, a publicly traded organization with a strong growth trajectory, is seeking a Corporate Controller to join their finance leadership team. This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced, audit-focused environment and enjoys leading a small team while maintaining hands-on involvement in complex financial reporting.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Oversee the preparation and review of monthly and quarterly financial working papers for approximately 10 legal entities, ensuring accuracy and compliance with USGAAP and company policies.</li><li>Lead and mentor a team of three intermediate accountants, providing guidance across areas such as bank reconciliations, accounts receivable, tax compliance (including mid-month withholding tax), credit card reconciliations, and other ad-hoc projects.</li><li>Take ownership of balance sheet reviews, ensuring integrity and completeness across all entities.</li><li>Support income tax compliance and assist with coordinating external tax filings and related schedules.</li><li>Manage the internal audit process and liaise with external auditors during the annual audit cycle.</li><li>Drive continuous improvement through systems migrations and process enhancements, ensuring accounting systems and internal controls are up to date and efficient.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally to support business initiatives, system changes, and reporting improvements.</li></ul>
<p>One British Columbia’s most defining assets are its trees. Towering Cedars and Douglas Firs, hearty pines, spruce, and Larch. The trees and forests of British Columbia have helped define our province and shape our daily lives. The health of our trees and forests is vital to BC’s ecosystem and our economy; our client, a thriving business in BC’s Forestry / Silviculture Industry, is dedicated to tending our forests and helping them continue to thrive.</p><p><br></p><p>Based out of East Vancouver, this organization’s roots lay in tree planting. From there, they have diversified to include many aspects of the silviculture value chain, including reforestation, ecosystem analysis, surveying, and First Nations consultation and partnerships. As the business continues to grow, adapt, and take on new partnerships, the need for a sophisticated and thoughtful Head of Finance has become abundantly clear.</p><p><br></p><p>Reporting to the CEO and Executive Management Committee, the Head of Finance will play a significant and strategic role in developing processes and procedures that allow the business to continue to scale and building management reporting and KPIs to assist in strategic decision making, while ensuring the day-to-day accounting and financial reporting is accurate, timely, and meaningful.</p><p><br></p><p>Key responsibilities would include:</p><p>- Oversight and functioning of the accounting department from accounts payable to the production of financial statements and management reporting</p><p>- Prepare cash-flow reports and projections</p><p>- Evaluate, apply and refine policies, procedures, controls and most methodologies</p><p>- Manage the production of, and monthly monitoring of, the annual budgets and forecasts</p><p>- Work closely with the executive team and operational leaders to ensure efficient and successful organization-wide operations</p><p>- Present monthly financial reports to executive committee and stakeholders</p><p>- Support Finance Department initiatives, such as software and systems upgrades and other departmental or organization-wide improvements, with research, planning, and implementation, as required</p><p><br></p>
