Department: Controllership
Reports to: Global Brand Controller
Location: North Vancouver, BC, or Hybrid
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
The Regional Controller is a finance leader responsible for the integrity, accuracy and compliance of Arc’teryx financial results within their region. Operating as the Global Brand Controllers primary regional finance partner, the Regional Controller owns the regional P&L and Balance Sheet, drives the end-to-end regional close and ensures consistent application of IFRS and corporate accounting policies across all regional entities. The Regional Controller serves as the principal owner of significant regional estimates, provisions and accruals, using independent judgement on complex matters while partnering closely with Brand FP&A, GBS and Global/Regional partners.
This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid work (or remote Canada with travels to North Vancouver, BC). Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team:
The Controllership team is the financial backbone of Arc'teryx, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of our financial results across all regions and entities globally. We partner closely with FP&A, GBS, and regional business leaders to deliver trusted financial reporting, drive governance excellence, and support the decisions that shape the brand's future. Our team moves with both rigor and agility — holding the standard on controls while enabling the business to grow.
If you were in the Regional Controller role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing: Financial Integrity & Reporting
- Owning the regional P&L and Balance Sheet, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and quality of all financial data submitted to the Global Brand Controller.
- Partnering with regional FP&A leader to complete detailed variance analysis and determine causes for variances
- Executing regional financial close activities, including preparation and posting of journal entries; ensuring key judgmental reserves are reviewed and approved by the Global Brand Controller.
- Performing and reviewing account reconciliations for all regional entities; escalating key reconciliations to the Global Brand Controller for approval.
- Reviewing regional P&L and Balance Sheet results; identifying, investigating, and escalating material variances on a timely basis.
- Delivering regional close packages to the Global Brand Controller in accordance with the global close calendar.
- Submitting accurate regional financial data into the consolidation system (OneStream) and ensuring alignment with corporate consolidation requirements.
Estimates, Provisions & Accruals
- Owning the preparation, documentation, and approval of all significant regional estimates, provisions, and accruals, including but not limited to: inventory reserves, warranty provisions, sales return accruals, employee-related accruals, and other judgmental balance sheet positions
- Applying a rigorous, well-documented methodology to all significant estimates; ensuring assumptions are supportable, consistently applied, and aligned with IFRS requirements.
- Proactively identifying changes in business conditions that may require adjustments to existing provisions or accruals; communicating material changes to the Global Brand Controller. Partnering with GBS to review GBS-prepared entries related to provisions and accruals, providing sign-off and ensuring regional estimates reflect the best available information.
Governance, Controls & Compliance
- Executing and self-assessing SOX controls across the region; ensuring controls are operating effectively and deficiencies are identified and reported promptly
- Leading remediation of control deficiencies within the region, working collaboratively with Global Brand Controller and GBS to drive issues to closure.
- Implementing global accounting policies locally; raising technical queries to the Global Brand Controller and Group Accounting as required.
- Ensuring regional entities maintain compliance with IFRS and all applicable corporate accounting policies.
Audit Management
- Serving as the primary regional contact for external and internal audit engagements; preparing and delivering all required PBC (Prepared By Client) deliverables on schedule.
- Supporting the Global Brand Controller in coordinating the brand-level external audit; providing timely responses to audit queries and ensuring completeness of audit evidence.
- Coordinating internal audit engagements at the regional level; authoring management responses to internal audit findings.
Business Partnership & Commercial Guidance
- Providing proactive accounting guidance on the regional impact of commercial decisions, new product launches, distribution agreements, and local business initiatives.
- Partnering with regional FP&A to provide actuals commentary for forecast review cycles and support budget validation.
- Collaborating with FP&A on actuals vs. forecast variance analysis, ensuring accounting and finance perspectives are integrated.
- Supporting the Global Brand Controller in serving as the accounting thought partner to brand GMs and regional business leaders.
Finance Transformation & Continuous Improvement
- Executing regional workstreams within global finance transformation initiatives, including BlackLine, S/4HANA, and close automation programmes.
- Identifying opportunities to streamline and improve regional close processes, reconciliation quality, and controls effectiveness.
- Acting as a regional champion for adoption of new tools, systems, and standardised processes.
Are you our next Regional Controller?
- You hold a CPA (or equivalent) designation, with 10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including meaningful time in a leadership role
- You take full ownership and accountability for regional outcomes, from close quality to control effectiveness, without waiting for direction.
- You have a proven track record of leading and developing high-performing finance teams across multiple entities or geographies, with the ability to build culture, drive accountability, and grow talent
- You bring deep technical expertise in IFRS, financial close processes, and internal controls (SOX), and you are confident exercising independent judgment on complex, multi-entity accounting matters
- You have experience owning regional or multi-entity P&Ls and Balance Sheets, with a strong command of estimates, provisions, and accruals in a large-scale, multinational environment
- You connect data, business context, and long-term goals to weigh trade-offs and commit to well-reasoned, timely decisions on complex accounting matters,
- You are a credible and influential communicator who can translate complex financial and accounting topics for senior business leaders, including GMs and executive stakeholders
- You have a demonstrated ability to lead finance transformation, systems implementation workstreams (e.g. ERP, consolidation tools, close automation), and utilize digital and AI tools to improve processes, driving adoption and sustainable change
- You bring strong business partnership instincts — you don't just report the numbers, you help the business understand and act on them
- You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving structures, and you bring both rigour and adaptability to everything you do
- You are an exceptional collaborator who builds trust across functions — Finance, Legal, Tax, and regional business teams — and you know how to get things done through influence as much as authority
Compensation:
Total Rewards
Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range, where you can contribute right away while continuing to grow your craft, your collaborations, and your impact at Arc’teryx. This range reflects market alignment and the scope of the role. Individual pay is determined by your skills, experience, and level of responsibility.
We’re committed to fair, equitable, and competitive pay, reviewed regularly to ensure internal alignment and market relevance. Transparency is part of how we follow through on our commitments and how we honour the value you bring to our team.
In addition to base pay, Arc’teryx supports people through benefits designed to sustain both work and life:
- Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender-affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial wellbeing - RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
- Time & Flexibility - Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
- Family support - Parental leave top-up and a nesting period for new parents.
- Growth, community & gear - Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).
*Eligibility for certain programs may vary by role.
Equal Opportunity
Arc’teryx is committed to actively creating and fostering a culture of inclusivity where voices are heard, people are seen, and values are respected. We care about the uniqueness of our applicants, employees, and guests, and we do so in a safe space fueled by curiosity and acceptance.
Creating an inclusive workplace is connected to our core value Do Right while also having the added benefit of helping make our business better. We believe inclusion helps us to create a healthier, happier workplace, drive creativity and innovation, and reflect the communities where we operate.
All applicants, employees, and guests can expect equality of opportunity and fair treatment in alignment with our values.
Leave it Better
We believe that the mountains transform us, that how we adventure matters, and that there’s always a better way.
Join us in creating positive change in ourselves, our communities, and the world.
Live it. Get out there - the mountains make us better
Disruptive evolution. In pursuit of better. Always.
Commit. We set bold objectives and see them through.
Skills Required
- CPA or equivalent professional accounting designation
- 10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience
- Meaningful experience in a finance leadership role
- Experience leading and developing finance teams across multiple entities or geographies
- Deep technical expertise in IFRS, financial close processes, and SOX internal controls
- Experience owning regional or multi-entity P&Ls and balance sheets
- Experience managing estimates, provisions, and accruals in a large-scale multinational environment
- Ability to exercise independent judgment on complex, multi-entity accounting matters
- Strong communication skills with senior business leaders and executive stakeholders
- Experience leading finance transformation and systems implementation workstreams, including ERP, consolidation tools, or close automation
- Ability to use digital and AI tools to improve processes and drive adoption
- Strong business partnership and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Eligibility to work in Canada
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
