Director of Finance in Mississauga

Are you a Finance leader who sees beyond the numbers and understands how Finance can drive business performance? Do you thrive on solving complex problems, challenging assumptions, and turning financial insight into decisions that move the business forward? Do you enjoy partnering with operational teams, asking the right questions, and translating financial analysis into practical actions and measurable results?

The Director of Finance is the day-to-day leader and end-to-end owner of UnitiWall’s Accounting and FP&A functions. The role ensures accurate ASPE-compliant reporting, disciplined forecasting, strong controls, and decision-ready insight in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, project-based manufacturing environment.

Reporting to the CFO and leading the Senior Accountant and Senior Financial Analyst, this hands-on department leader takes personal accountability for business issues, proposes practical solutions, and drives them through execution. The successful candidate takes a genuine interest in how the business operates and connects Finance with Project Management, Manufacturing, and Operations to surface risks early, challenge assumptions, and improve performance. This is an operational finance leadership role, not an administrative one.

How the Role Operates:

• Personally leads: forecast challenge, executive and departmental reviews, complex accounting judgments, project margin and recovery analysis, cash-flow decisions, business cases, process redesign, and communication of required actions.
• Oversees through the Senior Accountant: transactional accounting, month-end close, reconciliations, AP, AR, payroll and inventory accounting, supporting schedules, and financial-statement working papers.
• Oversees through the Senior Financial Analyst: forecast models, budget and forecast consolidation, project and departmental analysis, KPIs, dashboards, variance analysis, and recurring management reporting.
• Retains accountability: reviews and approves team output and steps into detailed work when an issue is complex, urgent, or not supported by a mature process.

Expected Outcomes:

• Ensure timely, accurate, ASPE-compliant financial statements supported by clean, audit-ready records.
• Maintain disciplined close, reconciliation, documentation, accounting-policy, and issue-resolution standards.
• Maintain effective internal controls, approval authorities, segregation of duties, and governance practices.
• Lead external audit support and resolve findings promptly.
• Provide concise reporting that explains performance, key drivers, risks, and required actions.

Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Lead the annual budget and rolling forecast with the CFO and department leaders.
• Ensure forecasts reflect current project, manufacturing, commercial, staffing, and cash-flow information.
• Test assumptions, challenge unsupported inputs, and present risks, opportunities, sensitivities, and management actions with each forecast.
• Lead monthly performance reviews using clear dashboards, KPIs, variance analysis, and corrective-action tracking.
• Maintain scenario analysis to support timely decisions as schedules, costs, and market conditions change.

Project & Commercial Finance

• Partner with Project Management to ensure actuals and forecasts reflect committed costs, labour, schedule changes, change orders, and known exposures.
• Oversee project accounting, job costing, revenue recognition, cost allocation, and credible cost-to-complete and margin forecasts.
• Identify margin changes early and partner with project leaders on prevention, mitigation, and recovery actions through resolution.
• Analyze project, product, customer, and departmental profitability to improve pricing, productivity, and resource allocation.
• Develop business cases and executive recommendations for capital expenditures, investments, growth initiatives, and other strategic decisions.
• Partner with the CFO and operating leaders to improve cash flow, liquidity, and working-capital efficiency.
• Monitor receivables, payables, inventory, project billing, collections, and other cash-conversion drivers.
• Ensure effective inventory controls over receiving, issuing, perpetual records, cycle and physical counts, valuation, obsolescence, segregation of duties, and general-ledger reconciliation.
• Work with Manufacturing, Procurement, and Project Management to resolve inventory variances, improve material traceability, and reflect inventory and commitments accurately in forecasts.
• Set clear priorities, standards, accountabilities, and development plans for the Senior Accountant and Senior Financial Analyst.
• Coach both direct reports to strengthen technical capability, business judgment, ownership, and confidence.
• Build an integrated, high-performance finance team with effective coverage, review, escalation, and follow-through.
• Improve the use of Planful and other finance systems to strengthen data quality, reporting, controls, and scalability.
• Identify, prioritize, and implement process improvements rather than stopping at recommendations.
• Use AI and workflow automation to reduce routine work and accelerate insight while maintaining appropriate review, security, and judgment controls.

Ownership & Standards: Takes accountability for the full finance function and sets a high bar for accuracy, timeliness, controls, and follow-through.

Accounting & FP&A Leadership: Combines strong financial-reporting discipline with forward-looking planning and performance management.

Business Partnership: Anticipates issues, challenges assumptions, and turns analysis into clear actions for non-finance leaders.

People Leadership: Builds capability, judgment, ownership, and accountability in others.

Entrepreneurial Agility: Thrives with broad accountability, changing priorities, and incomplete information.

Execution & Innovation: Implements practical process, systems, automation, and AI improvements that deliver measurable results.

Skills, Qualifications & Track Record:

• Must-Haves
• CPA Designation: Maintained in good standing.
• Public Accounting Experience: Prior public accounting experience is required, including direct involvement in financial statement preparation, assurance, or audit engagements.
• Finance Leadership: 8–10+ years of progressive finance experience, including substantial hands-on responsibility across both Accounting and FP&A, with 3–5+ years leading a finance function or team.
• Accounting & Forecasting Depth: Demonstrated ability to produce or oversee ASPE-compliant financial statements, maintain clean supporting information, lead rolling forecasts, test assumptions, and communicate risks and opportunities.
• Systems, AI & Process Improvement: Track record of implementing improvements to finance systems, reporting, controls, and workflows, including practical use of automation and AI to reduce manual work.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
• Nice-to-haves
• Manufacturing experience is strongly preferred, ideally in project-based, engineered-product, or building-products manufacturing.
• Practical knowledge of inventory controls, including receiving and issuing, perpetual records, cycle and physical counts, valuation, obsolescence, variance investigation, segregation of duties, and general-ledger reconciliation.
• Experience with project accounting, job costing, cost-to-complete forecasting, change orders, and margin recovery.
• Experience in an entrepreneurial or high-growth organization with broad roles and changing priorities.
• Experience with ERP, FP&A, business intelligence, workflow automation, or AI-enabled finance transformation; Planful experience is an asset.

About UnitiWall: We are an innovative leader in the construction industry, producing unitized wall panel systems that are taking the high-rise construction industry to new levels of sustainability with no trade-off in flexibility or design freedom. Our wall panels are engineered to work with virtually all cladding and glazing options in the market.

With more than 30 years of building experience, UnitiWall leadership brings together traditional and evolving building techniques, where we’ve been witness to – and instigated – giant leaps, brilliant insights, and clever innovations at the forefront of our sector.

UnitiWall offers a long list of benefits. With the work of a number of trades built-in, a remarkable installation process managed from inside the building, and full design flexibility, our prefabricated panels can shorten building schedules by as much as 80%, drastically reducing cost, risk, and site labour requirements.

UnitiWall is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please inform us within your application if you require any accommodations, and every effort will be made to meet your needs.