Head of Finance

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote - Canada

Salary: CAD $165,000–$185,000

Industry: FinTech

About the Opportunity

Our client is a remote-first Canadian technology company in a high-growth phase. We're partnering with them to hire a Director of Finance to own the finance function end-to-end.

This is the senior-most finance seat in the business, reporting directly to the CEO. You'll inherit an established team with a mandate to run day-to-day finance, then modernize it. Much of the function runs manually on spreadsheets today, and this role owns rebuilding it with an AI-and-automation-first approach so the company can scale without a proportional increase in headcount.

You'll take responsibility for day-to-day processing and build a working command of the numbers. From there the mandate shifts to modeling, forecasting, investor reporting, and standing up the automation that lets the team self-serve.

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day transaction processing end-to-end: payroll, AR and invoicing, AP, and accruals across a multi-entity, multi-currency structure
• Run monthly close, compliance, and external audit support
• Own cash management, burn, and runway visibility in a growth-stage setting
• Lead financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting, translating complex models into documents non-technical leaders can understand and manipulate
• Own KPI and investor reporting: runway, ARR, Net Dollar Retention, cohort performance, and operational efficiency
• Serve as the primary finance contact for investors, compliance, and external reporting
• Modernize the finance stack: identify high-value automation, stand up AI-enabled and agentic workflows, and apply judgment on when automated output can be trusted
• Communicate directly with partners and stakeholders, including in fast-moving channels; handle partner and vendor financial onboarding and due diligence

What You Bring

• 5+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience
• Experience in a SaaS startup or high-growth tech environment
• Hands-on ownership of at least one automated finance system you selected, built, and still maintain
• Experience with non-standard transaction flows
• Strong FP&A and modeling skills that have influenced real executive decisions, leading with the recommendation before the detail
• A clear instinct to reach for AI/automation over manual work, with the judgment to validate output before relying on it
• Comfort operating with high autonomy in ambiguity, surfacing blockers early with a recommended path forward