Description:
We are seeking a Strategic Finance, Director to report directly to the VP of Strategic Finance. This highly visible individual contributor role is designed for a proven leader who thrives in ambiguity, translates big-picture goals into actionable results, and elevates how finance operates in a fast-scaling environment. As the VP’s right hand, you’ll drive our finance systems roadmap, AI and automation initiatives, and cross-functional special projects—partnering across Corporate Finance, Commercial Finance, HR, and operations to enable scale, efficiency, and impact.
This is a remote opportunity within Canada and the US.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience – 8+ years in consulting, banking, or strategic finance roles within progressive tech companies, with a track record of driving cross-functional initiatives and creating impact—even in areas beyond your immediate expertise.
- Builder’s mindset with curiosity – You thrive on turning ambiguity into clarity, designing scalable systems, processes, and structures, and constantly seeking smarter, more effective ways to work.
- Influential collaborator – A trusted partner who inspires confidence, builds alignment, and energizes stakeholders to move forward together in fast-paced, high-impact environments.
- Operational rigor & stakeholder partnership – Expert at managing complex initiatives end-to-end. You actively listen, uncover key alignment opportunities, and simplify coordination so teams work seamlessly toward shared goals.
- Strategic translation & executive communication – Able to transform complex data and stakeholder input into clear, compelling, and actionable presentations, narratives, and dashboards that drive confident decision-making at the leadership and board level.
- Innovation & motivation to optimize - Experience using and leading efforts to implement AI-powered applications and tooling within a Finance org, or a strong interest and capacity to ramp up quickly in this space is an asset.
What You Can Expect
- Lead the AI & automation agenda — define and execute a high-value, results-driven roadmap for AI and automation in Strategic Finance. Focus on practical, high-impact applications that drive real efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, shaping the finance function of tomorrow.
- Streamline and elevate deliverables — optimize process for recurring reporting with automation where it adds value. Support build and refinement of presentations and narratives to ensure they are clear, polished, and exec-ready.
- Elevate FP&A as a service — design playbooks, documentation, and self-serve resources that make finance processes transparent, empower stakeholders, and enhance collaboration across the business.
- Lead the headcount process with clarity — streamline coordination between Finance, HR, and business leaders, ensuring roles, processes, and documentation are clear, scalable, and actionable.
- Be the operational backbone of Strategic Finance — run the engine of team OKRs, cross-functional projects, finance-wide updates, and special initiatives.
- Deliver accuracy with impact — own the final layer of quality control for board and executive materials, ensuring finance outputs are always accurate, clear, polished and decision-ready.
- Partner to shape business outcomes — collaborate closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to directly influence the success of Strategic Finance OKRs and the company’s broader impact.