Glooscap First Nation and Glooscap Ventures are seeking a Finance Manager to help build the finance function the Nation and its businesses are growing into. This is a newly created role and a rare opportunity to put the foundations in place rather than inherit them: a documented month-end close, reconciliations that hold, a live cash forecast, and funder reporting that is never met from memory.

Reporting to the Financial Controller and working closely with the Chief Financial Officer, the Finance Manager carries three connected bodies of work across the Nation and its entities: the monthly close and the reconciliations behind it, grant and funder compliance, and the cash, budget, and analysis work that leaders use to make decisions. The role exists so that critical work is not concentrated in one seat, and so that the numbers leaving this office can be defended.

This is a hands-on role in a small team. The successful candidate will do the work as well as design it, and will find both the accounting and the community stewardship side of it meaningful.

Key Responsibilities

Month-End Close and Reconciliations

- Execute the monthly close across all entities against a documented close calendar, holding the target close day, the task sequence, and the dependencies without a late scramble.
- Prepare and review balance sheet account reconciliations for all entities, with full supporting detail on any material balance and evidence of independent review.
- Reconcile inter-entity accounts monthly, resolve historical items with a documented resolution, and keep them from re-accumulating.
- Review and authorize journal entries prepared by others, and prepare the complex and judgmental entries directly.




- Maintain the deferred revenue schedule and post deferred revenue monthly, so the general ledger reflects grant activity through the year rather than only at year end.
- Confirm the monthly accounts receivable and accounts payable listings, maintain fixed asset schedules, and review bank and credit card reconciliations.
- Prepare the monthly combined financial statements and the supporting working papers, organized so anyone on the team can find current support without asking the person who made it.
- Prepare and post HST returns for all entities, and support the annual external audit with schedules and working papers that are ready when the audit arrives.

Grant and Funder Compliance

- Own the central grant register: every active contribution agreement with funder, amount, spending deadline, unspent balance, and reporting due date in one place.
- Prepare and submit funder reporting, including Indigenous Services Canada, Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey, CMHC, and ACOA, so no deadline is met late or from memory.
- Track unspent balances and spending deadlines and surface claw-back or lapse risk early, while there is still time to act.
- Retain support for every filing and submission so it is retrievable to the seven-year standard.
- Keep funder obligations visible to the Controller and the CFO before they are due, not after.

Cash, Forecasting, and Debt





- Build and maintain the rolling 13-week cash forecast, mapping funding receipts, inter-entity transfers, debt service, bi-weekly payroll, and accounts payable.
- Monitor bank balances on a daily and weekly basis against a defined minimum cash buffer, so the position is watched on a schedule rather than discovered.
- Track forecast accuracy weekly and improve the forecast until leaders trust it enough to act on.
- Maintain debt service schedules and prepare covenant compliance calculations, so the debt position is never a surprise to leadership or the boards.
- Prepare the cash and forecast views the CFO takes into the cash review cadence.

Budgeting, Analysis, and Business Partnership

- Support the annual budget for the Nation and Ventures, including reforecasts through the year.
- Prepare actuals versus budget variance analysis with written commentary that explains the drivers, not only the amounts.
- Support the monthly financial review with department and entity leaders, in a form they can use, and hold the cadence.
- Provide quick, reliable answers to routine financial questions, so leaders come to finance before a decision and not only after it.
- Contribute analysis to capital planning, entity reporting, and new business onboarding as the portfolio grows.

Controls and Stewardship

- Work within the finance responsibility matrix so preparation, approval, and independent reconciliation sit with different people, and the record shows it.
- Act as the independent reviewer on the payroll-to-general-ledger reconciliation and on other reconciliations where segregation requires a second set of eyes.
- Apply and help improve financial p

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