Area Controller

GFL is growing and seeking a high energy Finance leader with a passion for financial modelling, providing business insight, and driving overall profitability. Providing direct support to the Area Vice President, Western Canada Environmental Services, the Area Controller will work closely with the finance and operational personnel of GFL to drive overall performance and strategic position of the business. This newly created role will provide strategic insight, analysis and forecasting while possessing a keen ability to spot and work through opportunities for improvement. Thinking strategically, and acting tactically, this role will identify opportunities to support an effective decision-making process while collaborating closely with key stakeholders to ensure optimal strategic alignment and operational execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of annual budgets, monthly forecasts and quartile projections
• Provide financial and operational analysis and value-added decision support to business leaders, and then synthesize numerous variances into root-cause analysis
• Provide financial expertise in the development of business cases to support new initiatives and/or enhancements to current processes in addition to providing post implementation analysis of new business
• Provide ad hoc financial planning and analysis; develop new reports, run models, and ongoing evaluation of projects
• Participate in the development of strategic business plans and objectives; lead and direct the development and maintenance of modeling techniques to provide revenue projections and analysis of changing/evolving business environment/scenarios
• Lead and assess the areas of responsibilities by providing ongoing coaching, support and direction of the finance team
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement with the finance team and operations
• Review monthly finance reports of each region
• Review post implementation look-back analysis on new business initiatives
• Maintain high integrity with regard to the Company's financial accounting and reporting policies
• Liquid Waste experience is a strong asset, however, Industrial Services, Construction, Manufacturing industries with applicable and transferable skillsets will be considered
• Experience with a public company and preparing MD&A
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

• 10 years Finance experience
• 5 years managing a Finance team of 10+
• Finance related degree
• Experience in M&A
• Strong attention to detail, and ability to follow through financial transactions
• Able to support closure on a tight schedule and provide timely analysis of results
• Must possess a desire to effect change and make a difference in the organization
• Handle ambiguity and excel in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment
• Must be comfortable working with multiple data sources and data imperfections
• Superior communication and teamwork skills
• Excellent computer skills
• Primarily in an office environment - must be able to work out of Edmonton office
• Some travel may be required from time to time at various company locations
• Periodic weekend or evening work is expected
• Ability to work and travel between Canada and US
  
  

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We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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