{"id":4054463,"url":"https://alion.io/job/annual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls","title":"Manager, Financial Reporting Controls","company":{"id":2080001,"name":"Annual Inc","domain":"wcbsask.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/wcbsask-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Regina, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T19:25:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T04:18:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Manager, Financial Reporting Controls\nPermanent Appointment\nRegina Head Office\nJob Summary:\nThe Manager, Financial Reporting Controls is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously enhancing the WCB’s Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) framework. This role provides strategic leadership and oversight of the WCB’s financial reporting control environment, ensuring the integrity, reliability, and transparency of financial reporting processes. The Manager partners with Finance, Information Technology, Internal Audit, and business leaders to identify and mitigate financial reporting risks, strengthen governance practices, support regulatory and audit requirements, and foster a culture of accountability and control ownership across the organization. The position serves as the WCB's subject matter expert for ICFR and provides leadership with independent insight into the effectiveness of financial reporting controls, emerging risks, remediation activities, and opportunities for continuous improvement.The Manager also ensures that the ICFR framework remains responsive to organizational, technological, and regulatory changes and supports informed decision-making through a strong and sustainable control environment.\nDuties & Responsibilities:\nLead the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of the WCB's Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) framework, ensuring alignment with recognized control standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.\nProvide strategic oversight of financial reporting risks by identifying areas of potential exposure, assessing the impact of business and system changes, and ensuring appropriate controls are designed, maintained, and operating effectively.\nEstablish and maintain governance practices, policies, methodologies, and monitoring processes that promote accountability, strengthen the control environment, and support reliable financial reporting.\nDirect the documentation and maintenance of financial reporting controls, including process narratives, flowcharts, risk and control matrices, control objectives, and evidence requirements, ensuring documentation remains current and audit-ready.\nLead the planning, execution, and evaluation of control testing activities, including assessment methodologies, deficiency evaluations, root cause analysis, remediation plans, and re-testing activities.\nOversee the identification, assessment, and reporting of control deficiencies, providing recommendations to management and monitoring corrective actions to ensure timely and sustainable resolution.\nPartner with Finance, Information Technology, Internal Audit, and operational leaders to evaluate and strengthen controls related to financial reporting systems, data integrity, automated processes, IT General Controls, and end-user computing tools.\nServe as the primary liaison with internal and external auditors on matters related to financial reporting controls, coordinating walkthroughs, testing activities, audit requests, and management responses.\nProvide regular reporting, strategic advice, and recommendations to senior leadership regarding the effectiveness of the control environment, key risks, remediation progress, emerging issues, and overall ICFR program maturity.\nLead initiatives that enhance control awareness, promote ownership and accountability across the organization, and foster a culture of risk management, compliance, and continuous improvement.\nIdentify opportunities to strengthen governance, improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, leverage automation, and enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of financial reporting controls.\nPerforms other related duties as required.\nQualifications:\nA Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation and a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited post-secondary institution in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related discipline.\nA minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience demonstrating the ability to:\nLead and support organization-wide internal control, financial reporting, audit, or risk management initiatives. \nApply knowledge of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR), the COSO Framework, financial statement assertions, and applicable accounting standards.\nAssess risks, evaluate control effectiveness, identify deficiencies, and develop practical recommendations to strengthen governance and financial reporting processes. \nBuild collaborative relationships and effectively communicate with senior leaders, auditors, business partners, and other stakeholders. \nPrepare and present clear, concise reports, recommendations, and technical information for both technical and non-technical audiences. \nManage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy, professionalism, and attention to detail.\nApplications:\nIt is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is received through the online application system prior to close. Each application must include a cover letter explaining how each qualification is met and an updated resume.\nThe Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board is committed to achieving a representative workforce. Members of designated groups (women, aboriginal people, people with disabilities and visible minorities) are encouraged to apply.\nApplication Deadline: November 22, 2026","description_format":"text","description_chars":5403,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Health Insurance & Benefits"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-11T03:50:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:6","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/annual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/annual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T15:00:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31272,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2080001},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2080001"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fannual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fannual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fannual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/annual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fannual-inc-manager-financial-reporting-controls"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4054463}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"wcbsask.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4054463},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}