Finance Team Lead - 1008 RD #7

Finance Team Lead  

Location: Alberta, Canada 
Job Type: Contract / Temporary 
Experience: 7+ Years of Progressive Financial Experience 
Professional Designation: CPA or CPA-in-Progress 

Position Overview  

We are seeking an experienced Finance Team Lead to provide hands-on financial accounting, reporting, and functional leadership within a large and complex organization. 

This is a hands-on leadership role , not a pure people-management position. The successful candidate will be directly involved in complex accounting and financial reporting activities while coordinating financial professionals and leading high-priority workstreams. 

The Finance Team Lead will support areas such as financial reporting, external audit, revenue and grant reporting, general accounting, reconciliations, and financial analysis . The role requires someone who can independently manage complex deliverables, review the work of others, identify financial risks, and ensure assignments are completed accurately and on time. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Lead complex financial reporting and accounting assignments. 

• Coordinate financial analysts and other resources supporting assigned financial deliverables. 

• Review financial statements, schedules, notes, reconciliations, and supporting documentation. 

• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial activities. 

• Lead and support internal and external audit requirements. 

• Coordinate responses to audit requests and ensure supporting documentation is complete and accurate. 

• Review accounting research and provide guidance on complex accounting issues. 

• Lead investigations into financial statement variances and reporting discrepancies. 

• Oversee complex General Ledger and restricted-fund reconciliations . 

• Coordinate grant and revenue reporting activities. 

• Review journal entries, accounting adjustments, and supporting documentation. 

• Lead preparation and review of year-end schedules, worksheets, and financial statement notes. 

• Coordinate time-sensitive financial reporting and regulatory deliverables. 

• Support and review financial reporting worksheets and related processes. 

• Ensure financial deliverables comply with applicable accounting standards, organizational policies, and established deadlines. 

• Coordinate with Finance, Operations, funding recipients, and other stakeholders to resolve accounting and reporting issues. 

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and support to financial team members. 

• Escalate significant accounting, financial reporting, control, and compliance risks. 

• Maintain quality control over assigned financial deliverables. 

• Identify process improvements and opportunities to improve financial reporting efficiency and accuracy. 

Required Qualifications & Experience  

• Minimum 7 years of progressive responsibility in financial reporting, accounting, or equivalent finance functions. 

• CPA designation or actively pursuing CPA designation . 

• Significant hands-on experience in financial accounting and reporting. 

• Demonstrated experience coordinating or leading financial workstreams and deliverables. 

• Strong financial statement preparation and review experience. 

• Extensive General Ledger accounting experience. 

• Experience with complex reconciliations. 

• Strong variance analysis and financial investigation skills. 

• Hands-on month-end and year-end close experience. 

• Experience supporting or coordinating audits. 

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills. 

• Experience with enterprise financial systems and databases. 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities. 

• Ability to work independently with limited supervision. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and meet aggressive deadlines. 

• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills. 

Highly Preferred Qualifications  

• Completed CPA designation . 

• Knowledge of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS) . 

• Experience in Canadian public-sector finance. 

• Experience in healthcare finance or accounting. 

• Experience working within a large, complex enterprise. 

• Experience coordinating external audits. 

• Grant and restricted-fund accounting experience. 

• Experience with government or public-sector financial reporting processes. 

• Knowledge of internal controls over financial reporting. 

• Experience with financial workstream or team leadership. 

• Accounting policy research and technical accounting experience. 

• Knowledge of ASPE, IFRS, and GAAP . 

Leadership & Core Competencies  

The successful candidate should demonstrate: 

• Hands-on financial leadership . 

• Ability to delegate, review, and provide constructive feedback on work. 

• Coaching and mentoring capabilities. 

• Strong quality orientation and attention to detail. 

• Accountability for financial deliverables and outcomes. 

• Strong stakeholder-management skills. 

• Ability to resolve conflicts and facilitate agreement among stakeholders. 

• Sound professional judgment. 

• Strong decision-making under tight deadlines. 

• Ability to prioritize multiple urgent and competing deliverables. 

• Clear and professional communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Ability to lead workstreams effectively without constant supervision. 

• Ability to identify risks, escalate issues appropriately, and recommend practical solutions.