Department: Controllership Reports to: Global Brand Controller

Location:
North Vancouver, BC, or Hybrid Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: The Regional Controller is a finance leader responsible for the integrity, accuracy and compliance of Arc’teryx financial results within their region. Operating as the Global Brand Controllers primary regional finance partner, the Regional Controller owns the regional P&L; and Balance Sheet, drives the end-to-end regional close and ensures consistent application of IFRS and corporate accounting policies across all regional entities. The Regional Controller serves as the principal owner of significant regional estimates, provisions and accruals, using independent judgement on complex matters while partnering closely with Brand FP&A;, GBS and Global/Regional partners. This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work (or remote Canada with travels to North Vancouver, BC). Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada. Meet Your Future Team: The Controllership team is the financial backbone of Arc'teryx, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of our financial results across all regions and entities globally. We partner closely with FP&A;, GBS, and regional business leaders to deliver trusted financial reporting, drive governance excellence, and support the decisions that shape the brand's future. Our team moves with both rigor and agility — holding the standard on controls while enabling the business to grow. If you were in the Regional Controller role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing: Financial Integrity & Reporting
- Owning the regional P&L; and Balance Sheet, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and quality of all financial data submitted to the Global Brand Controller.




- Partnering with regional FP&A; leader to complete detailed variance analysis and determine causes for variances
- Executing regional financial close activities, including preparation and posting of journal entries; ensuring key judgmental reserves are reviewed and approved by the Global Brand Controller.
- Performing and reviewing account reconciliations for all regional entities; escalating key reconciliations to the Global Brand Controller for approval.
- Reviewing regional P&L; and Balance Sheet results; identifying, investigating, and escalating material variances on a timely basis.
- Delivering regional close packages to the Global Brand Controller in accordance with the global close calendar.
- Submitting accurate regional financial data into the consolidation system (OneStream) and ensuring alignment with corporate consolidation requirements. Estimates, Provisions & Accruals
- Owning the preparation, documentation, and approval of all significant regional estimates, provisions, and accruals, including but not limited to: inventory reserves, warranty provisions, sales return accruals, employee-related accruals, and other judgmental balance sheet positions
- Applying a rigorous, well-documented methodology to all significant estimates; ensuring assumptions are supportable, consistently applied, and aligned with IFRS requirements.




- Proactively identifying changes in business conditions that may require adjustments to existing provisions or accruals; communicating material changes to the Global Brand Controller. Partnering with GBS to review GBS-prepared entries related to provisions and accruals, providing sign-off and ensuring regional estimates reflect the best available information. Governance, Controls & Compliance
- Executing and self-assessing SOX controls across the region; ensuring controls are operating effectively and deficiencies are identified and reported promptly
- Leading remediation of control deficiencies within the region, working collaboratively with Global Brand Controller and GBS to drive issues to closure.
- Implementing global accounting policies locally; raising technical queries to the Global Brand Controller and Group Accounting as required.
- Ensuring regional entities maintain compliance with IFRS and all applicable corporate accounting policies. Audit Management
- Serving as the primary regional contact for external and internal audit engagements; preparing and delivering all required PBC (Prepared By Client) deliverables on schedule.
- Supporting the Global Brand Controller in coordinating the brand-level external audit; providing timely responses to audit queries and ensuring completeness of audit evidence.
- Coordinating internal audit engagements at the regional level; authoring management responses to internal audit findings. Business Partnership & Commercial Guidance
- Providing proactive accounting guidance on the regional impact of commercial decisions, recent product launches, distribution agreements, and local business initiatives.
- Partnering with regional FP&A; to provide actuals commentary for forecast review cycles and support budget validation.
- Collaborating with FP&A; on actuals vs. fo

📌 Regional Controller (North Vancouver)
🏢 Arcteryx
📍 North Vancouver