Vice President, Accounting in Mississauga

Join one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and be part of something extraordinary – welcome to goeasy! At goeasy, our people and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We’ve earned prestigious accolades such as Waterstone Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures and Canada’s Top Growing Companies. We’re also honoured to be named a Greater Toronto Top Employer and recognized by Great Place to Work® as having the Best Workplaces for Women and Most Trusted Executive Teams. These honours reflect our commitment to fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture where talent thrives and innovation drives us forward.

As one of Canada’s leading alternative consumer lenders, we’re passionate about helping everyday Canadians create a brighter future. Our vision is to provide a path to a better tomorrow, today. We offer a full range of products, including non-prime leasing, unsecured and secured loans, and point-of-sale financing through easyhome, easyfinancial, and LendCare. If you're seeking an exciting, high-growth environment where your contributions truly matter, we want to hear from you!

Role Overview: Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Controller, the Vice President, Accounting is a senior finance leader responsible for overseeing key accounting and controllership functions across goeasy’s businesses. This role will provide leadership across corporate accounting, audit support, disbursements, asset and inventory accounting, vendor and expense management, financial controls, and related accounting operations. The Vice President, Accounting will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of the Company’s financial records, strengthening accounting processes and controls, and supporting the continued evolution of the finance function as the organization grows in scale and complexity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accounting Leadership: Lead key accounting functions, including Corporate Accounting, assist in audits, Disbursements, Asset & Inventory Accounting, Vendor & Expense Management, and related accounting activities. Ensure the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the Company’s books and records across multiple legal entities and business units. Oversee month-end, quarter-end and year-end accounting processes, ensuring timely and accurate close activities. Maintain strong accounting governance, including adherence to accounting policies, appropriate valuations, provisions, reconciliations and financial controls. Partner closely with Corporate Reporting to support accurate and timely external financial reporting and disclosure requirements.
• Financial Controls & Governance: Maintain and continuously strengthen the Company’s internal financial control environment. Establish scalable accounting processes, policies and controls that support the continued growth and increasing complexity of the organization. Identify opportunities to improve automation, standardization, efficiency and accuracy across accounting processes. Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, Company policies and legal and regulatory requirements.
• Audit Management: Support the coordination of the Company’s external financial audit and review processes, working closely with the SVP, Controller and Corporate Reporting. Ensure audit requirements, supporting documentation and remediation items are addressed effectively.
• Finance Transformation & Systems: Support the continued modernization and scalability of the controllership function through process improvement, automation and stronger use of financial systems. Partner with Technology and Finance stakeholders to enhance systems, reporting capabilities and accounting workflows.
• Leadership & Business Partnership: Build, coach and develop a high-performing accounting organization with strong technical capability, accountability and succession depth. Serve as a trusted advisor to the SVP, Controller and broader Finance leadership team on accounting, controls, and financial governance matters.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant leadership experience within a complex organization.
• CPA/CA designation required, with previous public accounting/audit firm experience strongly preferred.
• Experience within a publicly traded company.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with significant experience applying IFRS; knowledge of US GAAP is an asset.
• Proven people leader with the ability to build, coach and develop high-performing teams.

Flexible Work Program: We offer a Flexible Work Program that provides you the ability to work three days onsite per week, from our Mississauga office.

Diversity, Inclusion, And Equal Opportunity Employment: At goeasy, we believe that we can only be the best when people are able to bring their best selves to work every day. goeasy is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace.