Global Director - General Ledger in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Global Director - General Ledger based in Canada.

This senior finance leadership role will oversee the global Record-to-Report function and ensure the organization’s financial records are accurate, complete, timely, and consistently maintained. You will lead monthly and year-end close activities across multiple countries, legal entities, shared services, and local finance teams. The position combines global accounting governance with technical expertise across reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany accounting, fixed assets, consolidations, and financial controls. You will establish consistent policies, processes, ownership standards, and quality routines that strengthen the overall close and reporting environment. The role also partners closely with FP&A, Tax, Audit, and other finance stakeholders to support reliable reporting and effective decision-making. You will play an important role in integrating acquired businesses by aligning accounting structures, opening balances, policies, and close processes. This is an opportunity to shape global accounting operations in a complex, multi-entity environment while driving greater consistency, control, and operational excellence.

• Own the global Record-to-Report process, including close calendar management, journal entry standards, account reconciliations, accruals, allocations, intercompany accounting, fixed assets, and consolidation support.
• Establish and maintain global general ledger policies, procedures, account ownership standards, reconciliation templates, close checklists, certification requirements, and quality review routines.
• Provide technical accounting expertise on the interpretation and application of relevant accounting standards and monitor changes in accounting and reporting requirements.
• Lead monthly and annual close execution across countries, shared services, and local finance teams, ensuring deadlines, review standards, issue escalation, and reporting dependencies are consistently met.
• Maintain governance over the chart of accounts, legal entity structures, department and practice coding, cost centers, intercompany accounts, and other reporting attributes.
• Partner with FP&A to ensure actual financial results are structured and reported effectively for management reporting, KPI analysis, profitability assessment, and decision support.
• Collaborate with Tax and Audit teams to support compliance and audit requirements by ensuring accurate and timely financial information, reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation are available.
• Support the accounting integration of acquired companies by mapping ledgers, converting charts of accounts, supporting opening balance sheets, standardizing close processes, and aligning accounting policies.
• Strengthen controls over manual journal entries, reconciliations, account ownership, recurring entries, intercompany settlements, fixed assets, accruals, and close certifications.
• Identify opportunities to improve global accounting processes, strengthen governance, increase consistency, and enhance the efficiency and reliability of financial reporting.

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline; a CPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CMA, or equivalent professional designation is preferred.
• Bring 8+ years of experience in accounting, general ledger, controllership, consolidation, or Record-to-Report functions, including leadership experience in multi-entity or multi-country environments.
• Demonstrate strong technical accounting knowledge and the ability to interpret and apply accounting standards to complex or non-routine transactions.
• Have experience working with ERP systems, close management tools, multi-currency accounting, intercompany processes, acquisition integration, and internal controls.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of financial close processes, reconciliations, journal entry governance, consolidation support, fixed assets, accruals, and intercompany accounting.
• Bring proven experience establishing accounting policies, procedures, governance frameworks, and control standards across geographically distributed finance teams.
• Possess strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and complex accounting matters.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with finance leadership, FP&A, Tax, Audit, shared services, and local finance stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive consistency and accountability across a global organization.
• Be comfortable operating in a dynamic environment and identifying opportunities for continuous process improvement and operational excellence.

• Annual base salary of $125,000–$150,000, excluding benefits.
• Opportunity to lead a global Record-to-Report function across multiple countries and legal entities.
• Exposure to complex accounting, financial controls, consolidation, and acquisition integration activities.
• Professional growth opportunities within a global finance organization.
• An environment that values diversity, inclusion, collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities to work cross-functionally with finance, FP&A, Tax, Audit, and other business teams.