Treewalk

Manager, Indigenous Advisory Services

Treewalk
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$11,000 per yearWebsite
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Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in financial management, including month-end and year-end close processes, fund accounting, and audit preparation, particularly within Indigenous governance contexts. Proficient in designing internal controls and financial policies while fostering respectful relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Highest-signal resume keywords
CPA DesignationControllership ExperienceFund AccountingMonth-End CloseYear-End Audit Preparation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead month-end and year-end close across a portfolio, including reconciliations, accruals, deferred revenue, capital assets, and journal entries
  • Oversee accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and cash management processes
  • Act as a fractional controller for clients
  • Build year-end audit files and lead schedules, prepare supporting documentation, clear PBC lists, and coordinate with external auditors
  • Clean up backlogs and prior-year issues to achieve audit readiness
  • Maintain books across multi-entity groups, including Nations’ governments, economic development corporations, limited partnerships, trusts, and societies
  • Manage intercompany and fund accounting
  • Track program funding, manage deferred and restricted funds, and prepare reports for ISC, CIRNAC, FNHA, and other funders
  • Design processes, internal controls, and financial policies
  • Coach and review accountants, bookkeepers, and CPA students
  • Create scalable checklists and templates across clients

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • CPA designation required
  • Significant experience in controllership, month-end close, and year-end audit preparation, ideally with Indigenous governments, organizations, or not-for-profits
  • Strong working knowledge of PSAS / ASNPO, fund accounting, and funding agreement reporting
  • Experience leading engagements and supervising staff
  • Respectful, relationship-based approach and understanding of Indigenous histories, governance, and impacts of colonization
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Bonus: audit experience serving First Nations or public-sector clients
  • Bonus: cloud accounting and payroll systems such as QuickBooks Online, Sage, or Xero
  • Bonus: FMB Financial Administration Law or certification experience
  • Bonus: lived experience as a First Nations, Métis, or Inuit person, or connection to Indigenous communities

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 100% payment of CPA modules, annual dues, and professional development courses with no clawback
  • Flexible schedule and remote work flexibility
  • Extended health, dental, vision, and parental-leave benefits from day one

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Hard Skills
Financial ManagementReconciliationsAccrualsDeferred RevenueJournal EntriesIntercompany AccountingProgram Funding TrackingAudit ReadinessFinancial ReportingProcess Design
Soft Skills
Analytical ThinkingProblem-SolvingCoachingRelationship BuildingRespectful Communication
Tools & Technologies
QuickBooks OnlineSageXeroCloud Accounting Systems
Certifications & Qualifications
CPA DesignationFMB Financial Administration Law Certification
Industry Keywords
Indigenous GovernmentsNot-For-ProfitsPublic SectorFunding Agreement ReportingIndigenous HistoriesGovernanceColonization Impacts