Financial Controller

The Controller is responsible for managing the overall day to day financial oeprations of Peace Hills Insurance, and provides a wide range of financial information to the Management team. Reporting to the CFO, the Controller directs and manages the company's accounts receivable, accounts payable and finance functions.  

More specifically, the responsibilities would include the following:

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of finance and accounting professionals.
• Produce financial projections, forecasts, analysis and supporting documentation.
• Provide information and analysis on budgets and forecasts.
• Prepare, analyze and present monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements.
• Provide strategic financial analysis as required to drive improved decision making.
• Responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of all financial information
• Establish and monitor internal controls to ensure that accounting activities are in accordance with established legal, regulatory and company policies and procedures.
• Work with stakeholders to define, measure, analyze, improve and control current processes which impact customer quality and influence internal operating efficiency.
• Set the priorities within the accounting and finance groups.
• Work with the CFO on the formulation of accounting policies, procedures and controls.
• Manage corporate cash flows.
• Organize and prepare the annual company budget, consolidated across all departments.
• Analysis of performance against budgets
• Oversee preparation for year-end audits, including year-end working papers and communication with external auditors.
• Oversee preparation of the company’s Regulatory Reports including P&C-1
• Lead the IFRS 17 project for conversion to the new insurance accounting standard.
• Attend management meetings and provide accounting perspective on company issues.
• Respond to information requests from external parties
• Understand and organize large amounts of data and use it in the analysis and interpretation of results.

The right candidate has an accounting designation and a minimimum of 8-10 years of finance experience and 3 years of management experience.  An understanding of insurance accounting and IFRS is preferred.