3 Finance jobs in Winnipeg

Job Description

Director of Finance & Accounting
Exclusive Opportunity through Lambert Nemec Group

Are you a financial leader who thrives on building strategy, but isn’t afraid to roll up your sleeves to drive results?
Do you enjoy working in a close-knit business where your ideas can directly impact performance and future growth? Does your perfect weekend include a hike, bike ride, fishing, or time in the great outdoors? If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you.

Lambert Nemec Group is proud to partner exclusively with an established and growing manufacturing and distribution client to recruit a Director of Finance & Accounting . This is a pivotal role for a hands-on, business-savvy professional who wants to be a strategic stakeholder while remaining deeply connected to day-to-day operations.

The Opportunity

Reporting directly to the executive team, the Director of Finance & Accounting will lead finance and accounting functions, help steer strategic decision-making, and support cross-functional teams as the company continues to scale. You’ll wear multiple hats—from high-level planning to detailed financial analysis—and you’ll be seen as a key business partner across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Financial Strategy & Leadership: Lead budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and performance management while advising senior leadership on opportunities and risks.
• Operational Oversight: Manage financial reporting, accounting systems, and inventory costing processes aligned with manufacturing and distribution operations.
• People Leadership: Oversee a dedicated team and provide strategic direction in areas including HR oversight, organizational development, and performance management.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate with sales, operations, and supply chain teams to align financial planning with business outcomes.

What You Bring

• Post-secondary education in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline; CPA designation preferred.
• Proven experience in finance and accounting leadership roles, ideally in manufacturing and/or distribution environments.
• A passion for continuous improvement, both in systems and in people.
• A collaborative leadership style and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Comfortable navigating between the boardroom and the shop floor—and energized by both.
• An active lifestyle and appreciation for the outdoors is a plus, aligning with the company’s values and culture.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Competitive compensation + performance-based bonus.
• Full benefits and professional development support.
• A stable, growth-oriented company with strong values and a close-knit team.
• Balanced work-life culture in a location where outdoor adventures are never far away.

Ready for Your Next Great Move?

Join a leadership team where your insights will matter—and your impact will be seen. Apply now through Lambert Nemec Group by submitting your resume in confidence.

Let’s build something great—together.

Job Description

We are seeking a dynamic and self-driven Senior Analyst, Billing and Client Finance – Media to play a pivotal role in managing financial operations and client billing processes for our media projects. This is a hands-on role that requires ownership of end-to-end billing cycles, client finance relations, and system integration across platforms. You’ll serve as the central hub for billing operations, stakeholder onboarding, and driving process creation in a fast-paced, evolving environment with no prior blueprint.

This role supports both the tactical and strategic elements of financial operations within a media context and will be instrumental in implementing a third-party media management platform, ensuring reconciliation with core financial systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage incoming vendor bills and issue client invoices with accuracy and timeliness.

• Interpret and apply Statements of Work (SOWs) to billing and AR processes.

• Oversee the full Accounts Receivable (AR) lifecycle including follow-ups and reconciliations.

• Act as a liaison between clients and internal teams, ensuring smooth billing operations and issue resolution.

• Build and lead scalable financial processes—owning documentation, workflows, and training.

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and guide them through newly created billing and reconciliation processes.

• Support the implementation of third-party media platforms (e.g., Camphouse, Media Ocean, Bionic) ensuring financial data is synchronized across platforms.

• Reconcile media project data between financial systems such as NetSuite, Kantata, and the media platforms.

• Provide monthly reports on billing, WIP (Work in Progress), and project financial status.

• Conduct variance analysis and flag financial risks or opportunities proactively.

• Partner with media project managers to align budgets, forecasts, and actuals with strategic goals.

• Support month-end close with appropriate reconciliations and financial accuracy.

• Ensure readiness for audits and maintain accurate documentation of billing and AR processes.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in finance, billing, or AR roles, ideally within a media or advertising environment.

• Experience with media-specific financial platforms such as Camphouse, Media Ocean, and Bionic .

• Strong understanding of financial systems and integrations (e.g., NetSuite, Kantata).

• Demonstrated ability to create, implement, and manage financial processes from the ground up.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modeling.

• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and lead cross-functional initiatives.

• Comfortable guiding stakeholders at various levels and providing actionable financial insights.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in media finance or agency environments.

• Background in systems training and onboarding stakeholders.

• Familiarity with project financials in media tech systems and their impact on P&L and reconciliations.

Key Traits for Success:

• Proactive & Self-Directed: You jump in, figure out what needs to be done, and take initiative.

• Collaborative Leader: You confidently lead stakeholders and act as the financial hub across departments.

• Process-Oriented: You thrive on building structure and improving inefficiencies.

• Detail-Focused: You catch what others miss—precision in numbers is your strength.

• Tech-Savvy: You can troubleshoot and optimize integrations between media platforms and financial systems.

Annual salary range for this role: $75,000 - $85,000

We are ChangeMakers:  

Change Makers is an independent owner, operator and builder of the foremost partner-led marketing, communications, and engagement agencies. Made up of Change Makers, our full-service marketing agency, Argyle our public relations and advisory engagement agency and Castlemain, our Indigenous advisory firm. With over 300 people, across seven offices, in 6 provinces and 2 countries, our goal is to be one of North America’s largest and most acclaimed full-service agencies.

An equitable employer:   

ChangeMakers is committed to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in all its forms, a commitment that enriches our company culture, the ideas that we generate, and the quality of service that we provide our clients. We encourage applications from Indigenous communities, racialized communities, women, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ people, and people from other historically marginalized communities.   

ChangeMakers is committed to providing employment accommodation under the Human Rights Code and the Accessibility Disabilities Act provincially by providing employment accommodations. If you are a job applicant with a disability, ChangeMakers will make every effort to accommodate you throughout the recruitment process. Please inform us if you require any accommodation, and we will work with you to meet your needs.  

At ChangeMakers we recognize that the best candidate may not meet all the criteria listed above. We encourage all those interested and with relevant experience to apply even if you don’t match the job posting perfectly. We welcome creative, out-of-the-box thinking, and lived-experience and we strive to provide an environment for best-in-class innovation that quickly and fulsomely meets our clients’ needs.