# Assistant Controller

**Company**: Multimatic
**Location**: Newmarket, Ontario
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $84,000.00 - $134,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17110208

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## Description

Multimatic Niche Vehicles North America (MNVNA), the exclusive production facility for the Ford Mustang GTD, is seeking a high-performing Assistant Controller to support financial leadership at its Newmarket manufacturing site.

This role serves as a key business partner to the Controller and General Manager, driving financial transparency, operational performance, and manufacturing efficiency. The successful candidate will lead plant-level financial reporting, cost accounting, budgeting, and internal controls while leveraging SAP and data-driven insights to optimize decision-making across the business.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Financial Reporting & Internal Controls:**

- Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes ensuring compliance with ASPE/GAAP and corporate policies

- Maintain general ledger integrity, including reconciliations and variance analysis

- Establish and enhance internal controls to ensure audit readiness and compliance

- Support internal and annual external audits

**Manufacturing Finance & Cost Accounting:**

- Manage standard costing methodology and updates

- Analyze manufacturing variances (material, labour, overhead)

- Oversee inventory including cycle counts, valuation, and obsolescence

- Review and improve Bill of Materials (BOM) accuracy and costing

**Budgeting, Forecasting & Analysis:**

- Lead annual budget and quarterly forecast processes

- Provide monthly financial performance analysis to management

- Develop KPIs and dashboards for operational performance

**Systems & Process Improvement:**

- Act as SAP finance SME at the plant level

- Improve financial processes and reporting workflows

- Support SAP implementations or system enhancements

**Business Partnering:**

- Partner with operations and plant leadership on cost, efficiency, and profitability improvements

- Provide clear financial insights to support decision-making

**Leadership & Team Development:**

- Supervise, mentor, and review the work of the finance team (AR, AP, and general accounting) to ensure efficiency and accuracy

- Serve as the plant’s financial super-user for SAP, optimizing workflows and ensuring accurate data mapping across all modules

- Establish best practices and standardized procedures

**Qualifications & Experience**

- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or Finance

- CPA designation preferred

- Minimum 5 years of finance experience, including advanced costing experience in a manufacturing environment

- Strong, hands-on experience with SAP ERP (experience during SAP implementation is highly valued)

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills

- An inquisitive, self-starting mindset with advanced Excel and data-mining skills

- Strong communication skills and detail-oriented

- Proficiency in PowerPoint, Power BI is an asset

- Highly organized and skilled in time management and the ability to prioritize tasks

The total cash compensation range for this position is expected to be: $84,000.00 - $134,000.00

## Skills

### Required
- SAP ERP
- cost accounting
- budgeting
- financial reporting
- internal controls
- data analysis
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Power BI

### Nice to have
- CPA designation

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