Manager, Corporate Financial Reporting

Ready to elevate your career? GESI is expanding! We are officially hunting for our next Manager, Corporate Financial Reporting in Vaughan, ON—someone ready to bring fresh ideas and grow alongside a dynamic team. 

About Us

GFL Environmental Services Inc. ("GESI") is a high-growth environmental services company recently carved out of GFL Environmental Inc. Backed by leading private equity firms, GESI delivers liquid waste, industrial cleaning, and soil remediation services across North America through a vertically integrated platform of over 230 sites and a fleet of 1,800+ vehicles. Our employees, collectively known as 'Team Green,' enjoy numerous benefits: career advancement opportunities, competitive benefits, job stability within an essential services company, and the chance to make a positive impact every day for our customers and communities, Green for Life!

The Role

Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, the Manager, Corporate Financial Reporting safeguards the accuracy and integrity of the monthly close and financial reporting cycles before results are presented to executive leadership, the Board, and external stakeholders. 

The role is the primary review and quality-control layer over journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, IFRS 16 lease accounting, multi entity consolidations, board reporting, and external financial statements. The role exists to ensure that leadership can rely on timely, IFRS compliant financial information for decision- making, external reporting, and audit, and to strengthen the internal control environment across the close cycle. It is a hands-on, fully on-site role at the corporate head office and provides day-to-day technical direction and review for the analysts supporting the close.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Journal Entry & Balance Sheet Governance

• Perform operational review and sign-off for all monthly journal entries prepared by team members, ensuring proper supporting documentation, accurate GL account coding, and IFRS compliance.

• Perform initial review and approval of all balance sheet reconciliations across all corporate entities, ensuring variance items are identified, investigated, and cleared promptly.

• Maintain strict oversight of month-end cutoff procedures, routine accruals, prepaid expense schedules, intercompany eliminations, and payroll postings.

2. Technical Accounting

• Manage, review, and maintain all corporate lease accounting schedules in strict compliance with IFRS 16, partnering with real estate, legal, and operational teams to maintain an up-to-date central repository of lease commitments and schedules.

• Prepare purchase price accounting for recent acquisitions and coordinate with internal and external advisors to support fair values for acquired assets.

• Lead the project planning and operational rollout for IFRS 18 adoption across the organization’s financial statement presentation and disclosure framework.

• Prepare complex accounting memos and analysis as required, including goodwill and long-lived asset impairment, asset retirement obligations, hedge accounting, and assets held for sale / discontinued operations assessments.

• Prepare standalone legal entity financial statements required for corporate tax filing purposes, investigating and resolving intercompany and statutory-to-IFRS discrepancies.

3. Consolidations & Financial Reporting First Review

• Perform the first-line review of multi-entity consolidations and the cash flow statement, auditing intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translation adjustments, and trial balance integrity.

• Prepare financial statement note support and conduct the initial review of external financial statements prior to review by the Corporate Controller and Senior Director, Financial Reporting.

• Conduct the first-line review and initial compilation of the quarterly Board reporting package, including financial narratives and variance analysis against budget, prior year, and key performance metrics.

4. Audit Coordination & Process Controls

• Act as a key operational contact for external auditors during quarterly and annual audits, coordinating audit schedules and reviewing requested workpapers.

• Continuously evaluate and improve internal accounting controls, workflow efficiency, and standard operating procedures across the close cycle.

• Oversee and act as administrator for company-wide tools used for financial reporting, lease tracking, billing, and balance sheet reconciliations.

5. Team Support & Development

• Provide day-to-day technical direction, review feedback, and coaching to the senior financial analysts supporting the close, raising the first-pass quality of deliverables submitted for review.

Success Criteria / Key Metrics:

• Month-end and quarter-end close completed within the corporate close calendar, with all journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations reviewed and signed off on schedule.

• Accuracy and completeness of reporting deliverables: consolidations, cash flow statement, and external financial statements clear review by the Corporate Controller and Senior Director, Financial Reporting with minimal revisions.

• Balance sheet integrity maintained: reconciling items identified, investigated, and cleared within the period, with no material aged or unexplained variances.

• Audit outcomes: auditor requests fulfilled on time and with complete support; no material audit adjustments or control deficiencies attributable to the close and reporting cycle.

• Technical compliance: IFRS 16 lease repository and schedules complete and current; technical memos and purchase price accounting completed and accepted by leadership and auditors; IFRS 18 adoption delivered to plan.

• Quarterly Board reporting package delivered on schedule with accurate, well-supported variance analysis against budget, prior year, and key performance metrics.

• Demonstrated contribution to process improvement across the close cycle (e.g., stronger controls and SOPs, reduced close days, increased automation of reconciliations).

• Effective coaching of the analysts supporting the close, evidenced by improved quality and timeliness of work submitted for review.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:
Technical Skills:

• Comprehensive practical knowledge of IFRS, specifically IFRS 16 lease accounting, acquisition accounting, and multi-entity consolidation; experience with hedge accounting and asset retirement obligations is an asset.

• Month-end close and balance sheet governance: journal entry review, reconciliation review, cutoff procedures, accruals, prepaids, intercompany eliminations, and payroll postings.

• Preparation and review of consolidated and standalone legal entity financial statements, cash flow statements, note disclosures, and statutory-to-IFRS reconciliations.

• Variance analysis and financial narrative preparation against budget, prior year, and key performance metrics for Board and executive reporting.

• ERP platforms (e.g., Workday, NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle) and lease management software, including administrator-level oversight of financial reporting and reconciliation tools.

• Advanced Excel capabilities, including complex formulas, large data sets, and variance modelling.

• Internal control design and documentation, standard operating procedure development, and external audit support.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Exceptional attention to detail and review discipline when working through high volumes of entries, reconciliations, and draft statements.

• Hands-on, operational mindset — willing to roll up their sleeves, dive into trial balances, and investigate complex GL transactions.

• Analytical thinking, professional skepticism, and sound problem-solving judgment.

• Clear written and verbal communication, including presenting findings and review results to senior leadership.

• Collaboration and influence across functions, including real estate, legal, tax, operations, and external auditors.

• Accountability and resilience in meeting firm close and reporting deadlines.

• Coaching and mentoring capability; develops the technical capability of others.

• Continuous improvement orientation and high standards of integrity.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• Active CPA designation required (or international equivalent with a strong IFRS background).

• Minimum 5 years of progressive corporate accounting/finance experience, with a focus on review balance sheet governance, and multi-entity financial reporting under IFRS.

• Demonstrated experience reviewing the work of others, including journal entries, complex balance sheet reconciliations, and draft financial statements.

• Strong working knowledge of ERP platforms (e.g., Workday, NetSuite, SAP, or Oracle) and lease management software; advanced Excel proficiency.

• Ability to work fully on-site at the corporate head office and to extend hours as required during close, reporting, and audit periods.

• Legally eligible to work in Canada.

Interfaces & Stakeholders:

• Corporate Controller (direct manager): daily interaction — review sign-off, escalation of technical issues, priority setting, and hand-off of reporting deliverables for second-level review.

• Senior Director, Financial Reporting: review and finalization of external financial statements, note disclosures, and the quarterly Board reporting package.

• Senior Financial Analysts (2, reporting to the Corporate Controller): indirect oversight — day-to-day work direction, technical review, and coaching on close deliverables.

• Corporate Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Payroll teams: journal entries, accruals, cutoff, intercompany, and payroll postings feeding the close.

• Tax: standalone legal entity financial statements for tax filings and resolution of statutory-to-IFRS differences.

• Legal, and Operations teams: lease commitment data and maintenance of the central IFRS 16 lease repository.

• FP&A / Business Operations and divisional finance teams: variance analysis, budget and forecast comparatives, and trial balance integrity across entities.

• Executive leadership and the Board: ultimate recipients of the reporting outputs this role reviews.

• IT and systems owners: administration and configuration of financial reporting, lease, billing, and reconciliation tools.

• External auditors: key operational contact during quarterly reviews and the annual audit — coordinating schedules, providing and reviewing requested workpapers.

• External valuation and accounting advisors: support for purchase price allocations, fair value assessments, and complex technical positions.

Physical Demands:

• Primarily sedentary, office-based work: prolonged periods seated at a desk working on a computer, with extended screen time.

• Occasional light lifting and carrying of files, binders, or laptop equipment (up to approximately 15 lbs.).

• Extended hours involving concentrated computer-based review work during month-end, quarter-end, and audit periods.

Working Conditions & Travel:

• Fully on-site, in-office role based at the corporate head office in Vaughan, Ontario. This position is not eligible for remote or hybrid work. ES head office to be moved to Markham, Ontario in Jan 2027.

• Standard business hours, with extended hours expected during month-end and quarter-end close, external audit, and Board reporting cycles.

• Professional office environment; no field or operational site exposure required as a routine part of the role.

• Minimal travel expected (less than 5%), primarily for occasional meetings with divisional finance teams or advisors.

Why join us?

We believe in taking care of our team. Here is a snapshot of our total rewards you can expect: 

● Health: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance. 

● Wellness: Employee Assistance Program, life insurance, and paid time-off

● Financial: RRSP matching, profit sharing and competitive wages

● Culture: Growth opportunities and continuous learning opportunities

Join us and become part of "Team Green" at GFL Environmental, where your skills and dedication will be valued and rewarded. Apply now for this exciting opportunity!

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