Hybrid Chief Financial Officer – CFO

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About the role

  • Chief Financial Officer leading financial operations for Rightsline, a SaaS platform for rights management. Responsible for strategic direction, financial modeling, and team leadership in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

  • Act as an advisor to the business and to the CEO
  • Lead, coach, and motivate high performing finance and accounting teams
  • Key player in formulating the company’s future strategic direction
  • Formulate strategies that drive improvement across top and bottom-line growth along with shareholder value
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive financial model to manage growth
  • Report financial results and key results (monthly, quarterly and annually) to the management team, board of directors and stakeholders
  • Build and maintain a best-in-class financial operation, including financial and operational systems, processes and procedures
  • Responsible for reviewing and implementing financial tooling and systems to drive efficiencies as the company scales
  • Oversee cash - monitor cash balances and cash forecasts
  • Play a key role in leading any fundraising activities
  • Build strategic relationships with investors and strategic partners
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning; create scenario analyses to evaluate financial impact of strategic decisions
  • Manage the accounting and corporate taxation for Canadian, US, India and UK operations
  • Oversee the accounting and reconciliation for all revenue streams
  • Lead acquisition due diligence and M&A integration, as required
  • Assist with negotiation and management of contractual agreements with customers, partners, and suppliers
  • Maintain relations with the company’s external auditors and deliver final audited statements for Board approval within prescribed timelines
  • Manage the company’s relationship with external stakeholders – ensure compliance with all debt covenants and monthly/quarterly/annual reporting requirements
  • Understand and mitigate key elements of the company’s risk profile
  • Ensure the company complies with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements

Requirements

  • 8-10+ years of experience in progressive leadership roles in Finance/Accounting managing a team (i.e. VP, SVP, CFO)
  • Experience scaling and leading Finance at a high-growth SaaS business, including experience at a company with over $50 million in revenue
  • Experience with M&A and experience with a “successful exit” of a company
  • Experience working with, and preparing reports for Board of Directors
  • Data and metrics driven with experience analyzing key information, anticipating and identifying opportunities and developing insight at a strategic level
  • Experience working effectively with distributed teams (including executive and leadership) and managing a remote team
  • Experience building and leading high performing accounting and finance teams
  • Ability to effectively translate financial acumen into terms that can be easily understood by the rest of the organization
  • CPA/CA designation is highly preferred
  • Strong problem solving, analytical and planning skills
  • Ability to adapt and be agile in changing environments

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation
  • Unlimited Vacation
  • Health & Dental Benefits
  • RRSP Match Program

Job title

Chief Financial Officer – CFO

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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