Leader of Financial Reporting

Posting Closes: March 25, 2025

Employment Status: Full-time permanent

In this leadership role, you act like a business owner and member of a united leadership team that collaborates, challenges and pivots your team(s) to capitalize on opportunities to support the collective best interest of the organization and achieve excellence. Your enterprise knowledge helps influence and contribute to strategy development and directs the work required to deliver on our purpose.

Operationally, you will set priorities, direct, and deliver organizational outcomes by collaborating with others and making tough business decisions to align tactics for strategy implementation while ensuring organizational health and success.

You are a visible cultural leader, who embraces our values and behaviors to inspire others. You create a team(s) of empowered employees, that share an organizational vision. You develop team capabilities and skills, manage team priorities, drive change processes and remove obstacles for success.

Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, this leader is directly accountable for connecting organizational and departmental strategy to meaningful work for the team, and by delivering the outcomes and results required of a modern Credit Union.  This role is accountable for accurate and timely regulatory and external financial reporting.

Position Overview:

• Oversee the preparation of the quarterly and annual external financial statements and manage the internal and external review for these documents.
• Ensure that changes to IFRS standards have been properly assessed and appropriately applied.
• Accountable for preparation of financial and statistical reporting to regulatory bodies.
• Responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring the Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting (ICOFR) COSO framework for the organization.
• Develop accounting standards and practices for complex treasury transactions, including securitization and hedging, to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and IFRS.
• Location: Remote First /Hybrid.

 You have demonstrated the following essential leadership skills: 

• Ambidextrous Leader: Lead in a rapidly changing 2-speed organization by focusing on core expertise and working knowledge of other areas of the business so that work is better aligned and assimilated across the organization. With an Entrepreneurial mindset, solve organizational opportunities and challenges through collective critical thinking using teamwork, collaboration, communication, and collective problem solving to make the right decision for the organization.  

• Change Agility and Innovation:  Embrace proactive leadership by driving change and fostering innovation, using design thinking, data analysis, AI thinking and digital literacy to project manage and prototype ideas that strengthening networks and champion a culture of adaptability and collaboration.  

• Operational Excellence: Manage the portfolio with efficiency, focusing on productivity, problem solving, and resource optimization by harnessing industry, business and digital solutions that deliver results. Nurture a winning mindset with self and team. 

• Courageous Leadership:  Cultivate a culture of excellence and learning, coaching diverse and inclusive high-performing teams to be bold and thrive by demonstrating and inspiring others to live the values and behaviours of a modern credit union in a caring and emotionally intelligent way. Embrace making the right choice even when it is not easy.  

• Accountable Decision Making: Take full ownership of decisions and results that impact the organization and department. Use paradoxical thinking to manage the tensions between short- and long-term goals; department and organizational needs; systems and people; using data, evidence, experience and judgement to guide choices to do what is right. 

• Fiscal and Risk Responsibility: Lead responsibly ensuring the organization is profitable through strict cost management controls and identifying and proactively mitigating risks. 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, B. Comm or equivalent.
• Active Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of IFRS, the CPA Handbook, and the Credit Union Act.
• Experience in preparing financial statements in accordance with IFRS.
• 7+ years of progressively senior positions in accounting within a financial institution.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience with a focus on developing high-performing teams, cultivating a culture of excellence and achieving operational efficiency.

Most importantly, we're looking for candidates who align with our values. We live our values in how we do business. We're not afraid to be different – in fact, we embrace our differences. We have a spirit that motivates us to give our best service to members every day. It's our values that attract many people to Servus – and keep them with us. We embrace our culture and heritage, and we pride ourselves on our strong commitment to the communities we serve and our efforts to build and maintain member loyalty. If this sounds like you, then we encourage you to apply

Working for Servus has outstanding benefits. In addition to standard benefits like health and wellness, vacation and retirement savings programs, we also provide other important benefits such as:

• Training & Development Opportunities
• Career Advancement Potential
• Flexible work options
• Competitive Compensation including performance-based incentive pay
• Meaningful work towards individual and corporate goals 
• Opportunities to get involved and give back through an employee volunteer program

 For information about these benefits and more, click here. 

At Servus, our employees are also members. This means you'll have all the benefits of being a member of the credit union including profit sharing, voting for the board of directors, and all of the services we provide … with a few additional perks!

What happens next?

Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Should you require any accommodations during the hiring process, please advise us at that time.

Discover a sense of belonging amongst a team of unique, authentic individuals working together to reimagine financial fitness. We value and celebrate the richness that diverse backgrounds and experiences bring to our community. Your skills, passion, and curiosity may find a sense of belonging at Servus, so even if you don’t check every box we encourage you to apply!