Role title: Financial Controller

Location: Vancouver

Department: Finance

Reporting to: General Manager

Role overview

To oversee the transactional accounting responsibilities for the Market and provide key business partnering support to the General Manager and other senior members of the team. This role requires a keen attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in the preparation of the monthly management packs, documenting business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls and a “hands-on”, problem solving approach to managing the markets’ finances. The candidate will have the tenacity to provide key reporting insights by creating financial projections, budgets and forecasts to enable the Global Time Out Financial Director to make informed decisions about the business.

Responsibilities

Providing regular cost and control updates as well as responding to ad-hoc queries.
Working closely with the GM to produce financial projections & budgets in a structured way.
Build, update and maintain financial models and reports to be used for operational purposes and decision making.
Manage a rolling cash flow projection for the market and work with the Finance & Admin support to the market to ensure accurate projections.
Lead the Accounts Payable process for the market working with the local Finance & Admin support to ensure that invoices are processed, paid and recorded in a timely manner whilst helping to drive improvements in AP processes.
Ensure Cost of Sales & Operating Expenses are accurate and accrual levels are set correctly on a monthly basis.
Drive processes, control and governance for the Finance & Administration support to the market to determine best practice and in accordance with Oakridge Market LP’s operating policies and Authority & Responsibility Matrix.
Presentation of monthly management information including accurate and timely reporting according to the policies and procedures required by Oakridge Market LP and its owners.
Provide oversight to the accounting and governance of internal controls over inventory, cash and other assets as required.
Full Balance Sheet reconciliations at Month End.
Payroll, pension, and expense reimbursement submission for staff, monthly analysis and reconciliations.
Sales Commission calculation and reporting.
Prepare and support the reporting on any relevant provincial, GST, and other required tax remittances related to the market’s operations.
Ensure local Finance & Admin support and other team members receive training for accounting systems and processes / procedures.
Liaise with Oakridge Market LP’s accounting team for reporting, cash funding requests, etc. as required.
Assist with ERP implementation and integration with other critical software, working closely with Oakridge Market LP’s accounting and management team.

Skills:

Excellent written and verbal skills
A strong knowledge of Excel
Ability to set and manage priorities
Ability to propose process improvements and implement efficiencies
Ability to review work and self-check as needed with a keen attention to detail
Ability to interact successfully with dynamic personalities and collaborate cross-functionally with other departments
Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
Ability to present problems and potential solutions
Ability to articulate ideas to all areas of the business
Experience in the hospitality industry

Preferred Skills

Minimum 5 years of accounting experience, preferably in the hospitality industry
Experience in XERO, Beanworks, Lightspeed, Marketman, Tenzo, 5Loyalty, or ADP is an asset
Experience in a global company

What we look for in a candidate

Time Out is a company filled with individuals as diverse as the cities we are in and cover. At the same time there are common characteristics and values we all share. To join our team, you’ll want to…

Be commercially astute
Either have experience at or want to dive headfirst into a fast-paced transformative company in pursuit of excellence
Think globally
Have excellent communication and relationship building skills
Have a high sense of ownership, urgency and drive
Be a team player

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

About Time Out Group
Time Out Group is a global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the best of the city - today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to Do, See and Eat across 333 cities in 59 countries and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels. Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city's best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. There are currently Markets in ten cities including Lisbon, New York and Dubai, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Group PLC, listed on AIM, is headquartered in London (UK).

About Time Out Market
Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs, drinks and cultural experiences together under one roof. From award-winning chefs to much-loved local gems, from cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures and celebrates the best of the city. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into one of the most popular destinations in the city. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion, and there are currently Markets in eleven cities including New York, Montreal, Dubai and Cape Town, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Market is part of Time Out Group PLC (AIM: TMO), a brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city through Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city – today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to do, see and eat across 333 cities in 59 countries, and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.