Salary
💰 CA$237,921 - CA$268,851 per year
About the role
- Lead all aspects of financial management, including FP&A, accounting, tax, treasury and legal compliance.
- Build and lead an engaged and motivated internal service team with an orientation to collaborative decision-making support, lean service excellence and digital and AI enablement.
- Maintain credible relationships with internal and external stakeholders and develop and maintain a trusted partnership with the financial sponsor.
- Responsible for the function (people, process and tools) that delivers seamless financial and operational reporting; ensure financial operations are delivered to industry standard service levels; maintain financial reporting under ASPE and potentially IFRS (or US GAAP).
- Partner with the CEO to identify and execute actions that drive profitable growth, improve operational efficiencies and increase productivity.
- Implement the use of effective digital/AI enablement and operating procedures to drive organizational efficiency starting with the Finance function.
- Identify risks and opportunities in key operating metrics and the P&L.
- Facilitate a strong internal control environment and drive documentation of key company processes across departments to identify bottlenecks and execute improvements.
- Lead the FP&A team to monitor financial performance by measuring and analyzing results; initiate corrective actions and minimize the impact of variances.
- Provide departments with timely, accurate, and reliable financial information to track performance and understand revenue and cost drivers.
- Support external reporting to the Board and other external stakeholders including analyses, commentary and presentation materials for Board meetings.
- Manage and execute the global taxation strategy and oversee the execution of the global treasury strategy including maintaining lending relationships.
- Ensure annual and quarterly planning of cashflow and cash management; monitor and optimize against plan.
- Manage all tax planning, compliance, regulatory and statutory reporting for Canada, U.S., and European Union federal, province/state, local, and payroll taxes.
- Develop, implement and manage the company insurance strategy.
- Responsible for a regular cadence of planning and continuous forecasting cycles; ensure all stakeholders have strong visibility into current expectations.
- Provide financial modelling, financial analysis and valuation support for acquisitions, long-term contracts and other ad-hoc financial projects.
- Act as primary coordination point with financial sponsor on deal evaluation, due diligence, deal structure (including tax) and execution; responsible for post merger integration execution to ensure financial and operational alignment at pace.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in progressively more senior accounting and finance roles including 4+ years at a senior level (VP, CFO or equivalent), including responsibility for managing the operational aspects of finance in a company with over CAD $50M in revenues and global operations.
- Strong strategic thinking and results orientation with a track record of meeting or exceeding business objectives.
- Experienced leader with minimum 8 years experience managing a team.
- Several years (ideally 2-4+) in public accounting with a top tier international firm.
- Experience in building and leading the financial, processes, automation and rigor for a high growth SaaS company.
- University degree and professional accounting designation (CPA preferred), with 15+ years post-qualified experience.
- Knowledge of, and proficiency in finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
- Solid experience in financial analysis, forecasting and operational planning.
- Passionate about leveraging technology and experienced in implementing financial software to automate accounting and finance processes to support automation and scale.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
- Exceptional communication and executive presence that foster confidence and trust across all levels of the organization.