About this role
*Position: *Assistant Controller
*Location: *Vaughan
*In Office: *5 days per week in office
*Company Overview*
Capital Sewer Services Inc. is a construction and infrastructure services company specializing in sewer, watermain, underground utility, and related civil construction projects. We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Assistant Controller to support the company's accounting, financial reporting, project accounting, and financial control activities.
*Position Overview*
The Assistant Controller will support the Controller and senior management in overseeing the company's day-to-day accounting operations, month-end reporting, job costing, cash flow management, payroll oversight, and internal controls.
This position is well suited to an accounting professional with construction-industry experience who understands project-based accounting, work-in-progress reporting, holdbacks, equipment costs, and the financial requirements of a growing organization.
*Key Responsibilities*
_*Financial Reporting and Month-End Close*_
* Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process. * Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, working papers, and financial schedules. * Assist in preparing monthly income statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports, and management reporting packages. * Investigate financial variances and provide clear explanations to management. * Ensure financial information is accurate, complete, and delivered within established deadlines. * Support consolidated reporting across multiple companies or operating divisions, where applicable.
_*Construction and Project Accounting*_
* Review project costs, revenues, commitments, billings, and profitability. * Support work-in-progress and percentage-of-completion reporting. * Monitor project margins and identify significant cost, revenue, or forecast variances. * Review job-cost allocations, labour charges, equipment costs, subcontractor expenses, and material costs. * Assist project managers with financial reporting and project-cost analysis. * Monitor contract holdbacks, change orders, claims, and unbilled revenue. * Ensure costs are recorded to the appropriate project, cost code, department, and legal entity.
_*Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable*_
* Provide oversight and support for accounts payable and accounts receivable processes. * Review vendor invoices, payment batches, employee expenses, and subcontractor payments. * Monitor customer collections, aging balances, disputed invoices, and overdue accounts. * Ensure appropriate approval and supporting documentation is obtained for financial transactions. * Assist with customer and vendor reconciliations. * Support the preparation of statutory declarations, holdback documentation, and payment-related construction documents.
_*Cash Flow and Treasury*_
* Assist with short-term and long-term cash flow forecasting. * Monitor daily cash positions, upcoming payments, collections, and funding requirements. * Support banking activities, electronic payments, wire transfers, and intercompany transactions. * Assist with equipment financing, leases, debt schedules, and lender reporting. * Help identify opportunities to improve working capital and cash conversion.
_*Payroll and Compliance*_
* Provide accounting oversight for payroll processes and payroll-related reconciliations. * Review payroll expenses, employee allocations, union deductions, benefits, vacation accruals, and related liabilities. * Assist with government remittances and filings, including HST, payroll deductions, WSIB, EHT, and other applicable taxes. * Support compliance with provincial and federal reporting requirements. * Assist with year-end payroll and tax reporting processes.
_*Internal Controls and Process Improvement*_
* Maintain and strengthen accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls. * Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and improve financial processes. * Assist in