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About the role
Title: Regional Controller
Location: 3203 - 93rd Street NW, Edmonton
At Qualico, our people make the difference. We offer an exciting place to build your career with competitive compensation and benefit packages, company matching RRSP/DPSP program, employee home purchase program and employee discounts.
Job Overview Reporting to the Vice-President, Corporate Controller, as the Regional Controller you are responsible for overseeing the financial and accounting operations within their region, ensuring compliance with corporate policies. You will provide strategic financial leadership, ensure accurate financial reporting and collaborate with cross-functional teams as a key business partner to ensure proper alignment with corporate financial strategies and objectives.
Your Day-to-day Responsibilities Will Include
- Collaborating with business units and acting as an advisor to provide leaders with actionable insights and decision-making support.
- Managing and overseeing all aspects of the financial operations for the region, including financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. Leading the annual financial budget preparation for the region and ensuring alignment and support of the operations business plans. Monitoring and analyzing financial performance against budgets providing variance analysis to business unit operators.
- Ensuring adherence to corporate policies, reporting deadlines and formats, Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE) and regulatory compliance, while maintaining a high standard of accuracy and transparency. Providing necessary financial documentation, records and reports to auditors.
- Leading, developing and providing guidance to regional accounting team, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary skills and motivation, driving a high level of employee engagement.
- Fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the accounting team.
- Liaising closely with the Regional Vice-President, Corporate Controller to establish protocols, ensuring operations comply with regional and corporate objectives, policies and procedures.
- Reviewing forecasts, proposals, and agreements for land development, home building, and investment projects, including monitoring and managing cash flows. Monitoring on-going compliance with the terms of business loans and operating lines.
- Working closely with business units to prepare status reports on joint venture projects and foster positive relationships with business partners.
- Acting as a Regional Compliance Officer to ensure homebuilding activities comply with FINTRAC legislation and provide regular reporting to the Corporate Compliance Officer.
As our ideal candidate, you are…
- A strong communicator; you clearly express your thoughts in conversation as well as write and present in a persuasive and influencing manner.
- An active listener; you seek to understand and listen to others in a non-judgmental way.
- Detail oriented; you focus on detailed accuracy when dealing with a high volume of work.
- A creative thinker; you identify new ideas, techniques and opportunities to improve performance and productivity.
- A leader; you develop or improve the skills of others through effective coaching and guidance.
Essential Requirements
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Accounting or related discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of controller or accounting experience within a structure of multiple enterprises in the Real Estate Development industry, or equivalent.
- Satisfactory verification of criminal record check.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint and PowerPoint), accounting and payroll software (NewStar, ADP).
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience as a controller in the Real Estate Development Industry is an asset.
What We Value
- Creating trusting and successful working relationships.
- Setting clear, measurable and achievable goals.
- Cooperating with team members in an open, positive and respectful manner.
- Taking responsibility for the outcomes of decisions and actions.
- Staying current with technical job skills.
Work Conditions You primarily work on-site in an office setting during regular business hours. Travel to other branch offices is sometimes required. Work outside of normal business hours may be required at times. Remote or hybrid work arrangements are not available for this role.
About Us Qualico is a fully integrated real estate development company with offices in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina, Saskatoon, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
Since its inception in 1951, the company’s activities span the entire real estate spectrum and include residential land acquisition and development, single-family and multi-family home divisions, commercial and industrial development, property management, concrete ready mix, building supply and manufacturing divisions. To learn more, click here .
Qualico welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.
Candidates being considered will be contacted. We thank you for your interest. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on job opportunities and to find out why we have the best reasons to come to work every day.
Closing Date: January 20, 2026
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply via Daryl Henry, Vice President, Richardson Executive Search at Daryl.Henry@richardsonsearch.ca.
About Qualico
As the largest fully integrated, privately-owned real estate company in western Canada, Qualico has been welcoming families home for over 70 years. Our principles and ethics have remained true to those of our founders, David and Katherine Friesen.
With single-family, multi-family, land and commercial developments, building supply and property management companies operating across western Canada and Texas, Qualico is proud to supply housing and lifestyles to thousands of families each year.
Our commitment extends to our people - our most valuable asset. From each new community we create, to the finely-crafted homes we build, our people are our strength. As leaders in innovation, safety, and environmental standards, Qualico's people bring their vast experience and unparalleled professionalism and spirit to all we undertake.
We invite you to experience Qualico - our people, our products, and our way of thinking.
Top Benefits
About the role
Title: Regional Controller
Location: 3203 - 93rd Street NW, Edmonton
At Qualico, our people make the difference. We offer an exciting place to build your career with competitive compensation and benefit packages, company matching RRSP/DPSP program, employee home purchase program and employee discounts.
Job Overview Reporting to the Vice-President, Corporate Controller, as the Regional Controller you are responsible for overseeing the financial and accounting operations within their region, ensuring compliance with corporate policies. You will provide strategic financial leadership, ensure accurate financial reporting and collaborate with cross-functional teams as a key business partner to ensure proper alignment with corporate financial strategies and objectives.
Your Day-to-day Responsibilities Will Include
- Collaborating with business units and acting as an advisor to provide leaders with actionable insights and decision-making support.
- Managing and overseeing all aspects of the financial operations for the region, including financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting. Leading the annual financial budget preparation for the region and ensuring alignment and support of the operations business plans. Monitoring and analyzing financial performance against budgets providing variance analysis to business unit operators.
- Ensuring adherence to corporate policies, reporting deadlines and formats, Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE) and regulatory compliance, while maintaining a high standard of accuracy and transparency. Providing necessary financial documentation, records and reports to auditors.
- Leading, developing and providing guidance to regional accounting team, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary skills and motivation, driving a high level of employee engagement.
- Fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the accounting team.
- Liaising closely with the Regional Vice-President, Corporate Controller to establish protocols, ensuring operations comply with regional and corporate objectives, policies and procedures.
- Reviewing forecasts, proposals, and agreements for land development, home building, and investment projects, including monitoring and managing cash flows. Monitoring on-going compliance with the terms of business loans and operating lines.
- Working closely with business units to prepare status reports on joint venture projects and foster positive relationships with business partners.
- Acting as a Regional Compliance Officer to ensure homebuilding activities comply with FINTRAC legislation and provide regular reporting to the Corporate Compliance Officer.
As our ideal candidate, you are…
- A strong communicator; you clearly express your thoughts in conversation as well as write and present in a persuasive and influencing manner.
- An active listener; you seek to understand and listen to others in a non-judgmental way.
- Detail oriented; you focus on detailed accuracy when dealing with a high volume of work.
- A creative thinker; you identify new ideas, techniques and opportunities to improve performance and productivity.
- A leader; you develop or improve the skills of others through effective coaching and guidance.
Essential Requirements
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Accounting or related discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of controller or accounting experience within a structure of multiple enterprises in the Real Estate Development industry, or equivalent.
- Satisfactory verification of criminal record check.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, SharePoint and PowerPoint), accounting and payroll software (NewStar, ADP).
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience as a controller in the Real Estate Development Industry is an asset.
What We Value
- Creating trusting and successful working relationships.
- Setting clear, measurable and achievable goals.
- Cooperating with team members in an open, positive and respectful manner.
- Taking responsibility for the outcomes of decisions and actions.
- Staying current with technical job skills.
Work Conditions You primarily work on-site in an office setting during regular business hours. Travel to other branch offices is sometimes required. Work outside of normal business hours may be required at times. Remote or hybrid work arrangements are not available for this role.
About Us Qualico is a fully integrated real estate development company with offices in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina, Saskatoon, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
Since its inception in 1951, the company’s activities span the entire real estate spectrum and include residential land acquisition and development, single-family and multi-family home divisions, commercial and industrial development, property management, concrete ready mix, building supply and manufacturing divisions. To learn more, click here .
Qualico welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.
Candidates being considered will be contacted. We thank you for your interest. Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on job opportunities and to find out why we have the best reasons to come to work every day.
Closing Date: January 20, 2026
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply via Daryl Henry, Vice President, Richardson Executive Search at Daryl.Henry@richardsonsearch.ca.
About Qualico
As the largest fully integrated, privately-owned real estate company in western Canada, Qualico has been welcoming families home for over 70 years. Our principles and ethics have remained true to those of our founders, David and Katherine Friesen.
With single-family, multi-family, land and commercial developments, building supply and property management companies operating across western Canada and Texas, Qualico is proud to supply housing and lifestyles to thousands of families each year.
Our commitment extends to our people - our most valuable asset. From each new community we create, to the finely-crafted homes we build, our people are our strength. As leaders in innovation, safety, and environmental standards, Qualico's people bring their vast experience and unparalleled professionalism and spirit to all we undertake.
We invite you to experience Qualico - our people, our products, and our way of thinking.