Job Description
As the Manager, Accounting, reporting to the Director of Accounting, you will play a key leadership role within MLSE's Finance team, providing financial oversight and leadership across a diverse and operationally complex portfolio of businesses, including Food & Beverage, Retail & Merchandise, Marketing & Communications, Digital Labs, PWHL, and Event Experience. Leading and developing a team of accounting professionals, you will provide an important review and control layer across a significant volume of daily, event-driven, and month-end accounting activity. You will be accountable for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial reporting while ensuring robust accounting practices, internal controls, and balance sheet governance across the portfolios supported by your team. Beyond the numbers, you will develop a strong understanding of the businesses supported by your team and serve as a trusted Finance partner to operational and functional leaders. Working closely with Finance, FP&A;, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will help connect transactional accounting to the broader financial performance of the organization while continuously strengthening processes, controls, and reporting. This is an opportunity for an experienced accounting professional who combines strong technical expertise with people leadership, sound judgment, operational curiosity, and a passion for developing others. RESPONSIBILITIES
* Lead and oversee accounting and financial reporting across a diverse portfolio.
* Manage, coach, and develop a team of accounting professionals, establishing clear expectations, providing regular feedback, supporting professional development, and building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Lead and oversee the monthly, quarterly,



and annual financial close processes for assigned portfolios, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, appropriately supported, and delivered within established timelines.
* Provide a strong review and control layer over accounting activities prepared by the team, including journal entries, accruals, revenue and expense recognition, inventory and cost of sales, allocations, account reconciliations, and supporting financial schedules.
* Oversee accounting for high-volume, event-driven business activity, including daily and event-level sales, inventory, e-commerce, merchandise programs, credit card chargebacks, and other relevant transactions.
* Maintain strong balance sheet governance across assigned portfolios, ensuring reconciliations are completed to a high standard and outstanding, aged, unusual, or higher-risk items are proactively investigated and resolved.
* Serve as the primary escalation point for the Accounting team on complex transactions, reconciliation issues, unusual activity, accounting treatment, competing priorities, and other matters requiring management judgment.
* Review and support monthly financial reporting and analysis, explain and understand results, variances, trends, risks, and underlying operational and commercial drivers.
* Develop a strong understanding of the businesses supported by the Accounting team,



ensuring accounting practices appropriately reflect their unique operating models and financial activity.
* Serve as a trusted Finance partner to leaders across the portfolios supported by the team, providing accounting guidance and helping stakeholders understand the financial implications of operational and commercial decisions.
* Partner closely with FP&A; to ensure alignment between accounting results, management reporting, budgets, forecasts, and business performance, investigating and resolving significant variances or inconsistencies.
* Research and provide guidance on complex accounting matters, contractual arrangements, new business activities, and transactions, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment and consistent application of accounting policies.
* Maintain and strengthen financial controls, accounting policies, documentation, and processes, proactively identifying opportunities to reduce risk and improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and transparency.
* Lead and support internal and external audit requirements, coordinating deliverables, reviewing supporting documentation, responding to inquiries, and ensuring issues are resolved effectively and within required timelines.
* Establish consistent accounting practices and standards across the portfolios supported by the team while recognizing the unique operational and commercial characteristics of each business.
* Lead process improvement and automation initiatives across assigned portfolios, identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve controls, eliminate manual activities, and enhance the quality and timeliness of financial information.
* Play a key Finance role in the integration of MLSE's Oracle environment into Rogers' Oracle environment, supporting process mapping, account and financial-di

📌 Manager, Financial Reporting (Toronto)
🏢 Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
📍 Toronto