Messagepoint

Director, Financial Reporting & Analysis – Bilingual, English/French

Messagepoint

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Fully integrate European operations into the consolidated model and establish an effective working relationship with team members
  • Own forecasting and reporting end-to-end, removing the CFO from day-to-day FP&A execution
  • Deliver consistent, credible reporting and analysis that leadership and external stakeholders will trust
  • Own and continuously improve the integrated financial forecast (P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet drivers)
  • Update forecasts for headcount, SaaS and services revenue, expenses, and working capital
  • Deliver scenario analysis (base, downside, upside)
  • Produce monthly internal financial reporting, analysis and commentary for leadership
  • Prepare external reporting for lenders and board materials
  • Develop and maintain executive dashboards and KPIs
  • Deliver variance analysis versus budget and prior year
  • Analyze SaaS and services performance, including ARR, project margins, and billable hours
  • Own cash flow forecasting and analysis
  • Analyze revenue vs. cost trends
  • Provide customer-level performance insights (growth, contraction, stagnation)
  • Act as primary finance liaison with our European operations
  • Map reporting into consolidated financials
  • Provide cross-border and multi-entity reporting requirements
  • Review deal economics for accuracy, profitability, and ROI
  • Validate license schedules against pricing tools and agreements
  • Push back on poor-quality or value-destructive deals using data
  • Support revenue recognition analysis under Canadian ASPE
  • Maintain deferred and accrued revenue forecasting
  • Prepare schedules and analysis for annual audits
  • Coordinate PBC requests and support audit execution

Requirements

  • Multi-entity and international reporting experience (required)
  • Strong FP&A and management reporting background
  • Experience in professional services environments (POC revenue, billable hours, project margins)
  • Exposure to board and/or lender reporting preferred
  • SaaS experience preferred but not mandatory
  • CPA designation
  • Bilingual proficiency in English and French (spoken and written).
  • Strong excel modeling and analytical judgment
  • Comfortable working with good—but not perfect—systems
  • Able to challenge assumptions and push back on deals with data
  • Execution-focused operator, not a theorist
  • Senior, hands-on, and self-directed
  • Takes ownership of outcomes, not just tasks
  • Pragmatic, resilient, detail and deadline-oriented
  • Low ego, high output
Benefits
  • Equal Opportunity Employer
  • encourages diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
financial forecastingreportingvariance analysisSaaS performance analysiscash flow forecastingrevenue recognition analysisExcel modelingmulti-entity reportingproject margin analysisbudget analysis
Soft skills
execution-focusedself-directedownership of outcomespragmaticresilientdetail-orienteddeadline-orientedanalytical judgmentability to challenge assumptionsinterpersonal communication
Certifications
CPA designation