Senior Accounting Manager: Path to Controller

RackAir Inc. | Toronto Area | Full-time, on-site | Company-wide mandate

Built on Accountability.

Build the Finance Function. Then Run It.

Most accounting jobs hand you a system someone else built and ask you to keep it running. This one hands you a 35-year commercial HVAC and mechanical service firm expanding into the GTA, and asks you to build the system.

The close calendar. The WIP process. The budget cycle. The reporting the CEO runs the company on. Yours to design, yours to own, yours to defend. You report directly to the CEO. No layers, no committees, no waiting for sign-off from three levels up. Then you earn the Controller seat running what you built.

If you want a department with a manual, stop reading. If you want to be the person who wrote it, apply.

Who We Are

Built on Accountability. That's not a slogan. It's how the work gets done here. RackAir delivers commercial HVAC and mechanical service, maintenance agreements, and project work across multi-site portfolios, and we win on the things most contractors treat as afterthoughts: documentation clients can actually use, compliance records that hold up under scrutiny, a named contact who answers, and work that's done right the first time because we don't cut corners. Anywhere, ever.

The same standard applies inside the company. Clean records, disciplined process, and accountability that's owned, not assigned. Finance is no exception, which is why this seat matters.

What You'll Build and Own The accounting engine

- Full-cycle accounting company-wide, across both branches: AR/AP, reconciliations, GL, payroll support, HST
- A month-end close you design and run on a fixed calendar: accurate, documented, non-negotiable
- BuildOps-to-accounting integration: invoicing integrity, job costing,



revenue recognition on service agreements and project work

Project and contract financials

- WIP reporting: work-in-progress schedules, percentage-of-completion tracking, over/under billing analysis across multi-site service contracts and project work
- Full lifecycle tracking on every contract, from signed agreement through billing, cost accumulation, margin realization, and renewal
- Job-level and branch-level margin reporting against our gross margin model

Budgeting and forecasting

- Full annual budgeting cycle for both branches. You build it, present it, and track actuals against it monthly
- 13-week rolling cash flow forecast, maintained weekly and trusted for real decisions
- Monthly bank reporting packages, owned end to end

Compliance

- HST, payroll remittances, WSIB, and financial compliance calendar, owned end to end
- Year-end coordination with our external accounting firm
- Documentation standards that would survive any audit

Your team

- Direct oversight of invoicing and admin support as the function grows
- As we scale, you build your accounting team. You define the roles, you hire, you develop them

Path to Controller

Milestone-gated, not tenure-gated. Expected timeline: 18 to 24 months, faster if you earn it faster. The Controller title and mandate come when you've demonstrated:

1. Close ownership. Three consecutive independent month-end closes, on calendar, no material year-end adjustments
2.



WIP and contract reporting. Lifecycle tracking running monthly, trusted by leadership for pricing and resourcing decisions
3. Budget ownership. A full annual budget cycle built and defended, with variance reporting leadership acts on
4. Bank reporting. Full ownership of the reporting package with zero CEO involvement
5. Team readiness. Support staff directed effectively, external accountant relationship managed independently

As Controller, you own the entire finance function of a multi-branch company in aggressive growth mode, and you'll have built every piece of it yourself.

Who Thrives Here

Required

- 4+ years full-cycle accounting in a job-cost-driven business; trades, construction, mechanical services, or field services strongly preferred
- Month-end close ownership you can prove, not just describe
- WIP / percentage-of-completion experience, or the demonstrated ability to build it
- Solid modeling skills in Excel/Google Sheets. You build the model, you don't just populate it
- Direct communicator, comfortable working straight with an owner-operator at speed

Strong assets

- CPA designation or active candidacy
- BuildOps or comparable field service platform (ServiceTitan, Jobber, FieldEdge)
- Bank reporting experience at a growing company
- Experience standing up finance processes at a growing company. You've been the builder before

Compensation

- $85,000 to $130,000 base, positioned within the range on proven WIP/close ownership and CPA status
- Defined step-up at Controller promotion
- CPA dues and professional development supported
- Benefits package
- Written promotion criteria. You'll know exactly what the Controller seat requires, in writing, from day one

How to Apply Send resumes to [email protected].

📌 Senior Accounting Manager (Toronto)
🏢 RackAir
📍 Toronto