Controller
Location: Mississauga, Ontario | On-site
About Our Client
Our client is an established, privately owned Canadian business specializing in commercial and industrial laundry equipment. Serving customers across hospitality, healthcare, multi-residential housing, and commercial laundromats, they provide complete solutions, including equipment sales, planning, installation, training, parts, and ongoing service.
The Opportunity
Our client is creating a new Controller position for a hands-on accounting professional who enjoys taking ownership, improving processes, and working closely with business owners.
Your initial focus will be strengthening the general ledger, establishing a consistent month-end close, and ensuring financial reporting is accurate, timely, and useful. As these foundations develop, you will expand into budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, and providing insight into costs, margins, and overall business performance.
Working closely with ownership and the existing accounting team, you will have the opportunity to shape the finance function and contribute directly to business decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the general ledger, ensuring accurate accounting records, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
- Establish and manage a consistent month-end and year-end close process, including journal entries, account reviews, and financial statement preparation.
- Identify and resolve accounting discrepancies and improve the accuracy of financial information.
- Prepare clear financial reports for ownership, explaining results, key variances, and areas requiring attention.
- Strengthen internal controls and document practical accounting procedures.
- Work collaboratively with the existing accounting team to clarify responsibilities, improve workflows, and support consistent execution.
- Develop budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections to support planning and decision-making.
- Analyze costs and margins across equipment sales, parts, and service.
- Monitor working capital, including receivables, payables, and inventory, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Coordinate with external accountants and support year-end reporting and related requirements.
- Improve the use of accounting systems and Excel to reduce manual work and strengthen reporting.
What You Bring
- Progressive accounting experience with direct responsibility for the general ledger, month-end close, and financial reporting.
- Experience as a Controller, Accounting Manager, or senior accounting professional ready to take ownership of a finance function.
- Strong technical accounting skills and the willingness to work through detailed reconciliations and accounting issues personally.
- Experience improving accounting processes, reporting, and internal controls.
- The ability to communicate financial information clearly to owners and colleagues without an accounting background.
- A collaborative approach to working with an established team and introducing change.
- Strong Excel skills and confidence working with accounting systems.
- Experience with budgeting, forecasting, cash flow analysis, and profitability reporting.
- Experience in a privately owned business or an equipment, distribution, inventory, or service-based environment would be an asset.
- CPA designation, public accounting experience, and French-language skills are valued.
Why Join Our Client?
- Help shape a newly created Controller role within an established Canadian business.
- Work directly with ownership and see the impact of your recommendations.
- Build stronger accounting processes while expanding the company’s financial planning and analysis capabilities.
- Join a business with a long history, established customer relationships, and a broad equipment and service offering.
Our client is committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities throughout all stages of recruitment and selection. If you require accommodation, please let us know so we can work with you to meet your needs.
