Powered by Passion. United by Purpose. Build for Impact.
At Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Partnership (MLSE), we exist to deliver the ultimate fan experience by lifting trophies, spirits, and communities – united as one.
We're more than a workplace. We are a team of passionate people, boldly building the future of sport and entertainment, together. We believe in the power of play, the strength of collaboration, and the energy that comes from showing up with purpose.
From the ice to the pitch, the hardwood to the digital arena, we’re proud to be the driving force behind the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), the Toronto Raptors (NBA), Toronto FC (MLS), Toronto Argonauts (CFL) and development teams with the Toronto Marlies (AHL), Raptors 905 (NBA G League), Toronto FC II (MLS NEXT Pro League) and Raptors Uprising Gaming Club, the Toronto Raptors Esports franchise in the NBA 2K League.
We bring these teams – and world-class entertainment – to life at our iconic venues, including Scotiabank Arena, BMO Field, Coca-Cola Coliseum, Ford Performance Centre, BMO Training Ground, and OVO Athletic Centre. Off the field, we serve up elevated dining at e11even, Real Sports, and our signature club spaces like Hot Stove Club, ScotiaClub, and Platinum Club.
Through MLSE Foundation and MLSE LaunchPad, we use the power of sport to help youth facing barriers reach their full potential. Since 2009, we’ve invested more than $45 million into Ontario communities -- and we’re just getting started.
This is what it means to be One MLSE: a culture where everyone plays a role, everyone belongs, and everyone contributes to something bigger than themselves.
So, if you're ready to play with purpose, grow with passion, and win as one, we’d love to have you on our team.
** We know that great candidates come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. Even if you do not meet every qualification listed, we encourage you to apply. Your unique perspective, transferable skills, and lived experience may be exactly what we’re looking for. **
Job Description
As the Manager, Accounting, reporting to the Director of Accounting, you will play a key leadership role within MLSE's Finance team, providing financial oversight and leadership across a diverse and operationally complex portfolio of businesses, including Food & Beverage, Retail & Merchandise, Marketing & Communications, Digital Labs, PWHL, and Event Experience.
Leading and developing a team of accounting professionals, you will provide an important review and control layer across a significant volume of daily, event-driven, and month-end accounting activity. You will be accountable for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial reporting while ensuring strong accounting practices, internal controls, and balance sheet governance across the portfolios supported by your team.
Beyond the numbers, you will develop a strong understanding of the businesses supported by your team and serve as a trusted Finance partner to operational and functional leaders. Working closely with Finance, FP&A, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will help connect transactional accounting to the broader financial performance of the organization while continuously strengthening processes, controls, and reporting.
This is an opportunity for an experienced accounting professional who combines strong technical expertise with people leadership, sound judgment, operational curiosity, and a passion for developing others.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and oversee accounting and financial reporting across a diverse portfolio.
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of accounting professionals, establishing clear expectations, providing regular feedback, supporting professional development, and building a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Lead and oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes for assigned portfolios, ensuring financial results are accurate, complete, appropriately supported, and delivered within established timelines.
- Provide a strong review and control layer over accounting activities prepared by the team, including journal entries, accruals, revenue and expense recognition, inventory and cost of sales, allocations, account reconciliations, and supporting financial schedules.
- Oversee accounting for high-volume, event-driven business activity, including daily and event-level sales, inventory, e-commerce, merchandise programs, credit card chargebacks, and other relevant transactions.
- Maintain strong balance sheet governance across assigned portfolios, ensuring reconciliations are completed to a high standard and outstanding, aged, unusual, or higher-risk items are proactively investigated and resolved.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for the Accounting team on complex transactions, reconciliation issues, unusual activity, accounting treatment, competing priorities, and other matters requiring management judgment.
- Review and support monthly financial reporting and analysis, explain and understand results, variances, trends, risks, and underlying operational and commercial drivers.
- Develop a strong understanding of the businesses supported by the Accounting team, ensuring accounting practices appropriately reflect their unique operating models and financial activity.
- Serve as a trusted Finance partner to leaders across the portfolios supported by the team, providing accounting guidance and helping stakeholders understand the financial implications of operational and commercial decisions.
- Partner closely with FP&A to ensure alignment between accounting results, management reporting, budgets, forecasts, and business performance, investigating and resolving significant variances or inconsistencies.
- Research and provide guidance on complex accounting matters, contractual arrangements, new business activities, and transactions, ensuring appropriate accounting treatment and consistent application of accounting policies.
- Maintain and strengthen financial controls, accounting policies, documentation, and processes, proactively identifying opportunities to reduce risk and improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and transparency.
- Lead and support internal and external audit requirements, coordinating deliverables, reviewing supporting documentation, responding to inquiries, and ensuring issues are resolved effectively and within required timelines.
- Establish consistent accounting practices and standards across the portfolios supported by the team while recognizing the unique operational and commercial characteristics of each business.
- Lead process improvement and automation initiatives across assigned portfolios, identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve controls, eliminate manual activities, and enhance the quality and timeliness of financial information.
- Play a key Finance role in the integration of MLSE's Oracle environment into Rogers' Oracle environment, supporting process mapping, account and financial-dimension mapping, user acceptance testing, data validation, reconciliations, issue identification and resolution, and other Finance-related transition activities.
- Coordinate migration and testing activities across the portfolios supported by the team, helping ensure the integrity and completeness of financial data while maintaining continuity of regular accounting, close, and reporting requirements throughout the transition.
- Champion the effective use of Oracle, Excel, and other financial systems and tools to improve accounting processes, reconciliations, analysis, controls, and reporting.
- Support the Director of Accounting on strategic Finance initiatives, organizational priorities, accounting matters, systems transformation, and special projects.
- Develop the capabilities of the Accounting team by sharing technical knowledge, creating learning opportunities, encouraging cross-functional exposure, and supporting succession and development planning.
- Perform other related responsibilities as required to support the evolving needs of the Finance department and organization.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Completion of a post-secondary degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
- A Canadian CPA designation or equivalent professional accounting designation.
- 7+ years of progressive accounting and financial reporting experience, including demonstrated experience overseeing month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
- Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, developing, reviewing the work of, and providing day-to-day direction to accounting professionals.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and practical experience applying accounting principles to complex transactions, revenue and expense recognition, accruals, inventory, cost of sales, balance sheet accounting, and financial reporting.
- Experience overseeing accounting within a high-volume, operationally complex environment involving multiple revenue streams, business units, or reporting entities.
- Demonstrated ability to critically review financial information, identify accounting or control issues, investigate unusual transactions, exercise sound professional judgment, and drive issues through to resolution.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, balance sheet governance, financial reporting, and audit requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to move beyond transactional accounting to understand operational and commercial drivers and provide meaningful financial insight to business leaders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with exceptional attention to detail while maintaining an appropriate big-picture perspective.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the confidence and judgment to partner effectively with senior leaders, Finance colleagues, operational stakeholders, and external parties.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex accounting and financial matters clearly to both Finance and non-Finance audiences.
- Proven ability to lead through competing priorities and compressed deadlines in a fast-paced, event-driven environment while maintaining high standards of accuracy and accountability.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience with enterprise accounting and reporting systems; experience with Oracle Cloud Fusion ERP is considered a strong asset.
- Experience with ERP implementations, integrations, system migrations, user acceptance testing, financial data validation, or significant Finance transformation initiatives is considered an asset.
- Experience identifying and implementing process improvements, automation opportunities, and stronger financial controls.
- Experience within sports, entertainment, media, hospitality, food and beverage, retail, live events, or another complex multi-business organization is considered an asset.
- A collaborative and adaptable leadership style, with demonstrated initiative, curiosity, sound judgment, and a commitment to developing others.
Job Posting Compensation Range/Rate:
$105,000 – 115,000 annual base
Bonus, vacation, competitive benefits, and many exciting perks are also included.
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