Food Manufacturing | Greater Vancouver, BC
Do you love rolling up your sleeves, building high-performing teams, and finding smarter ways to do things? Are you energized by fast-paced manufacturing environments where no two days are the same? If you enjoy partnering with an approachable CFO, leading a collaborative accounting team, and helping a growing food business scale for the future, we'd love to meet you.
Our client is a well-established and growing food manufacturer known for bringing quality products from production to consumers' tables. As the business continues to expand across manufacturing, distribution, and retail channels, they are looking for a Controller who is equal parts strategic leader, trusted business partner, and process improvement champion.
This is an opportunity to step into a highly visible leadership role where your ideas will be heard, your improvements will make a lasting impact, and you'll help shape the finance function for the next stage of growth.
What You'll Be Doing
As Controller, you'll oversee the day-to-day finance function while working closely with the CFO on strategic initiatives that support a growing organization including:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a collaborative accounting team.
- Oversee full-cycle accounting, month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close across multiple entities.
- Prepare financial statements, management reporting, and variance analysis.
- Manage cost accounting, inventory, and production costing to support manufacturing and distribution operations.
- Monitor cash flow, forecasting, and working capital.
- Coordinate year-end audits and assist with tax working papers.
- Strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, and financial processes.
- Partner with operations, production, supply chain, and retail leaders to provide financial insights.
- Lead process improvement initiatives, ERP implementation, automation projects, and finance system enhancements.
- Support new retail locations, entity onboarding, and other growth initiatives.
What Makes This Role Exciting
This isn't a "keep the lights on" Controller position. You'll have the opportunity to:
- Make a measurable impact by improving systems and processes.
- Help modernize and automate the finance function.
- Partner with a collaborative CFO who values new ideas and empowers their team.
- Lead a hardworking, supportive accounting group that enjoys solving problems together.
- Gain exposure to manufacturing, distribution, and retail operations all under one roof.
We're Looking For Someone Who Is/Has
- CPA designation.
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 5+ years leading finance teams within manufacturing, food production, consumer goods, distribution, or another inventory-driven environment.
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting, full-cycle accounting, and cost accounting.
- Experience with inventory valuation, production costing, and operational finance.
- Proven success leading ERP implementations, automation, or process improvement initiatives.
- A collaborative leader who enjoys developing people and building strong cross-functional relationships.
- A hands-on, solutions-oriented professional who thrives in a growing, fast-paced environment.
Why You'll Love It Here
This is more than a Controller opportunity—it's a chance to help build something. If you're someone who gets excited about seeing products move from the production floor to store shelves, enjoys partnering with passionate operational teams, and finds satisfaction in making processes smarter every day, you'll feel right at home.
Bring your leadership. Bring your curiosity. Bring your ideas. Together, you'll help shape the future of a growing Canadian food manufacturer.
If this sounds like the role is for you, please apply today! Please reference job number 05060-0013465422 in all correspondence. You may contact Sharon Lovison at 604-229-2573.
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