We are looking for an experienced Finance Lead to support a complex finance integration for our in Vancouver, British Columbia. This Long-term Contract position will focus on technical accounting, statutory reporting readiness, inventory and lease accounting assessments, and improvements to management and external financial reporting. The successful candidate will work closely with finance, reporting, and systems stakeholders to strengthen close processes, evaluate accounting policy impacts, and deliver high-quality analysis and documentation across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead accounting assessments related to transaction impacts, statutory obligations, opening balance considerations, and readiness for initial and ongoing reporting periods.

• Build and maintain a jurisdiction-based workplan that captures local reporting, tax, close, and accounting requirements across multiple operating regions and legal entities.

• Evaluate policy differences and recommend whether adjustments should be recorded through consolidation entries or reflected in local and statutory books.

• Coordinate the gathering and review of lease documentation and prepare support for Day 1 lease calculations using updated borrowing assumptions.

• Analyze inventory costing approaches and assess the financial reporting impact of policy alignment across operating sites and business units.

• Review by-product inventory valuation methods and prepare analysis to support updates to net realizable value treatment where required.

• Identify reporting data gaps for revised management accounts and work with finance planning and financial systems teams to implement necessary changes.

• Support stub period and month-end close activities by preparing guidance, validating supporting evidence, assisting with audit requests, and refining cost allocation methodologies.

• Contribute to the calculation, testing, and validation of alternative performance measures, including review of consolidation and reporting configurations.

• Maintain issue logs, action trackers, status reporting, and documentation that support close acceleration initiatives and transition of selected finance responsibilities to site or country teams.

• An accounting designation such as CPA, CA, or an equivalent credential is preferred.
• Strong technical accounting expertise under IFRS, including leases, inventory, consolidations, business combinations, and financial reporting.
• Experience supporting merger or integration-related finance activities in a complex corporate environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of multi-jurisdictional statutory reporting and legal entity accounting requirements.
• Strong understanding of month-end close, consolidation, management reporting, and external financial reporting processes.
• Hands-on experience with inventory accounting analysis, lease accounting, and audit-ready working paper preparation.
• Familiarity with public company reporting requirements and collaboration with external auditors.
• Experience working with enterprise finance systems such as SAP S/4HANA and reporting platforms used in implementation or configuration testing.

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