This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Global Revenue Controller based in Canada.

In this senior leadership role, you will oversee global revenue accounting operations and ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). You will lead and develop a revenue accounting team while maintaining high standards of financial accuracy, transparency, and reporting quality. Combining technical accounting expertise with hands‑on financial reporting responsibilities, you will manage complex revenue recognition matters and support critical financial decisions. You will collaborate with regional finance teams, business leaders, and external auditors across a global organization. This is an opportunity to drive process improvements, strengthen financial controls, and introduce AI‑powered efficiencies into accounting workflows.

Global Revenue Controller

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Global Revenue Controller based in Canada.

In this senior leadership role, you will oversee global revenue accounting operations and ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). You will lead and develop a revenue accounting team while maintaining high standards of financial accuracy, transparency, and reporting quality. Combining technical accounting expertise with hands‑on financial reporting responsibilities, you will manage complex revenue recognition matters and support critical financial decisions. You will collaborate with regional finance teams, business leaders, and external auditors across a global organization.



This is an opportunity to drive process improvements, strengthen financial controls, and introduce AI‑powered efficiencies into accounting workflows.

Accountabilities

- Global Revenue Accounting: Lead and oversee global revenue recognition activities in accordance with IFRS 15 and internal accounting policies, including complex customer contracts, performance obligations, transaction price allocation, and revenue recognition timing.
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop the revenue accounting team by setting priorities, allocating responsibilities, reviewing deliverables, and providing ongoing coaching and feedback.
- Percentage-of-Completion Accounting: Oversee percentage‑of‑completion (POC) accounting, including project reviews, revenue recognition, unbilled receivables, and deferred revenue management.
- Complex Contract Assessments: Review and resolve technical accounting matters involving non‑standard shipping terms, discount incentives, Software Assurance contracts, and other non‑standard customer arrangements.
- Financial Close and Internal Controls: Oversee revenue‑related closing activities, journal entries, reconciliations, and balance sheet accounts. Investigate discrepancies, resolve aged items, and maintain robust internal controls and supporting documentation.
- Financial Reporting: Prepare and review financial statement notes,



including revenue disclosures, and contribute to quarterly and annual financial reporting requirements.
- Technical Accounting: Research complex accounting transactions, prepare and review technical accounting memoranda, and document IFRS interpretations, significant judgments, and conclusions.
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Operations, Legal, regional finance teams, and external auditors to address accounting issues and ensure accurate and consistent reporting.
- Process Improvement and AI Integration: Identify and evaluate opportunities to introduce AI‑powered tools and automation into revenue accounting and financial reporting workflows while maintaining data confidentiality, appropriate controls, and skilled judgment.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline, complemented by a recognized CPA designation.
- Progressive experience in technical accounting, revenue recognition, and financial reporting, including demonstrated experience managing and developing teams.
- Strong knowledge of IFRS standards, particularly IFRS 15, complex revenue arrangements, and percentage‑of‑completion accounting.
- Proven experience assessing complex customer contracts, determining revenue recognition treatments, and documenting technical accounting conclusions.
- Experience preparing financial statement disclosures and drafting, reviewing, and presenting technical accounting memoranda.
- Strong understanding of financial close processes, account reconciliations, internal controls, and revenue‑related balance sheet accounts.
- Advanced analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to interpret comple

📌 Global Revenue Controller (Canada)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 Canada