The Role
The Director of Finance is a senior operational finance leader responsible for managing Parklane’s day-to-day financial operations, reporting, compliance, financial modeling, and team leadership across Canadian and US entities.
Reporting to the Vice President of Finance & Legal, this role ensures accurate financial reporting, disciplined controls, KPI monitoring, and robust financial planning infrastructure to support profitable growth.
This is both a hands-on and leadership-oriented position requiring strong technical accounting expertise, operational understanding, and the ability to translate financial data into actionable insights.
1. Financial Reporting & Controls
- Oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for Canadian (ASPE) and US (US GAAP) entities
- Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of financial statements
- Maintain and enhance internal controls, policies, and financial governance procedures
- Lead coordination of annual review engagement and act as primary liaison with external accounting firms
- Ensure compliance with CRA, IRS, and applicable state and provincial tax authorities
- Monitor and enforce risk management policies and financial controls
2. Operational Finance & Performance Management
- Partner with Production, Project Management, Sales, Engineering, and Purchasing leaders to ensure financial visibility into operations
- Monitor project costing accuracy, inventory integrity, and margin performance
- Lead monthly financial review meetings and variance analysis with department leaders
- Develop, refine, and report on departmental and company-wide KPIs aligned with strategic objectives
- Ensure alignment between operational systems, ERP data, and financial reporting
- Identify opportunities to improve margin performance, cost discipline, and reporting transparency
- Partner with Project Management and Production teams to ensure accurate financial reporting of project performance and integrity of margin data
3. Financial Planning, Modeling & Cash Management
- Develop, maintain, and continuously enhance integrated three-statement financial models (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow) for Canadian and US entities
- Prepare and manage rolling short-term and long-term cash flow forecasts to ensure proactive liquidity planning and capital readiness
- Model working capital requirements to support rapid growth, project-based revenue cycles, and cross-border operations
- Lead the annual budgeting process in collaboration with department leaders and consolidate into a company-wide financial plan
- Prepare quarterly forecasts and detailed variance analysis with actionable recommendations
- Conduct scenario and sensitivity analyses related to revenue growth, cost structure, capital investments, hiring plans, and market fluctuations
- Provide decision-support modeling for senior leadership to evaluate operational changes, pricing strategies, equipment purchases, and expansion initiatives
- Support treasury optimization initiatives and recommend strategies to improve cash yield and capital efficiency
- Ensure integrity and consistency between financial models and underlying accounting and ERP data
4. Team Leadership & Development
- Lead and mentor Accounting and Finance
- Establish departmental KPIs and performance objectives aligned with company goals
- Conduct performance reviews and support professional development
- Ensure cross-training and continuity within the finance function
- Foster a proactive, solutions-oriented, and accountable finance culture
- Ensure the finance team transitions from reactive reporting to proactive financial management
5. Systems & Process Improvement
- Develop strong cross-departmental understanding of workflows and operational processes
- Drive continuous process improvements to enhance accuracy, transparency, and efficiency
- Support ERP optimization and system enhancements
- Collaborate with the Vice President of Finance on long-term financial systems strategy
- Ensure scalable financial infrastructure to support continued North American expansion
6. Banking & External Relationships
- Maintain positive relationships with lenders and credit providers
- Ensure covenant compliance and timely reporting
- Support funding applications and financing initiatives as required
- Coordinate with tax advisors and professional service providers
Assist in due diligence support for strategic growth initiatives as directed by the Vice President of Finance.
Qualifications & Experience
- CPA designation (required)
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in accounting and finance
- Experience in a project-based, construction, engineering, or manufacturing environment preferred
- Strong knowledge of Canadian (ASPE) and US (US GAAP) reporting environments
- Excellent financial modeling capabilities, including integrated three-statement modeling and cash flow forecasting
- Advanced Excel skills (or equivalent financial modeling tools) with demonstrated ability to build and maintain complex financial models
- Experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis processes
- Strong understanding of working capital management in a growth-oriented organization
- Proven experience managing and developing Accounting, Finance, and Administrative staff
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to clearly present financial information to operational and executive leaders
- Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
Company Overview
As one of North America’s leading providers of turnkey mechanical noise control and VIRS solutions, Parklane is on a constant search for top industry talent. Every day we help clients with their sound attenuation and vibration challenges. We do it by leveraging an agile approach to engineering, product manufacturing and implementation.
As an organization, we live and breathe our core values:
1. Challenge Accepted
2. Work Hard & Play Hard
3. Share the Wins & Own the Losses, and
4. Built Together, Grow Together.
By sharing ideas and supporting each other at every turn, we’ve built a reputation both for service excellence and the strength of our workplace culture. Put simply, our team is committed to doing whatever it takes to help our customers succeed—and that’s why we need professionals with the experience and expertise to solve complex problems.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $130,000.00-$150,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care
Work Location: In person
