VP, Finance Job

360insights (Canada) Ltd. (300 King Street in Whitby, Ontario, L1N 4Z4) seeks Vice President, Finance (NOC 00012) to oversee financial strategy, operational scalability, and corporate accounting functions for our team. Optimizing financial operations, the Vice President, Finance will drive financial planning and M&A activities while ensuring strong financial reporting and compliance across multiple jurisdictions. This position will include the following duties:
Financial Strategy & Leadership
• Lead, supervise and support the Finance team in successfully executing strategic deliverables to achieve organizational growth initiatives.
• Collaborate with FP&A leadership on financial analysis and forecasting, providing meaningful information for decision-making.
• Assess capital allocation and investment strategies to maximize returns and ensure financial sustainability.
• Manage relationships with financial institutions and external advisors.
• Support M&A activities, including due diligence, financial structuring for acquisitions and partnerships and post-close integration efforts.
• Identify opportunities for enhanced reporting, cost savings and operational improvements.
Operational Finance & Business Scalability
• Implement a scalable financial infrastructure to support growth, international expansion, and acquisitions, introducing best practices to create a high-performing finance operations function.
• Lead, supervise and innovate with the Finance Operations and Corporate Accounting teams and the teams’ managers to develop and implement processes and workflow improvements via automation, including streamlining and standardizing billing, treasury, expense and reporting functions.
• Delegate assignments to the teams’ managers.
• Champion data integrity of financial related information in various interconnected and disparate systems; identify areas of risk and work cross-functionally to develop and implement solutions, supporting robust data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborate with Internal Controls to identify and design internal tests and audits on the financial processes to boost operational efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and deliver more accurate and timely information.
Corporate Accounting & Financial Reporting
• Own the financial reporting cadence, ensuring accuracy and rigor of financial results, and serve as a key financial voice explaining both granular financials and broader narratives to stakeholders.
• Drive robust financial reporting capabilities by developing and implementing appropriate revenue and expense tracking methodologies.
• Identify areas of exposure to complex accounting transactions, review, analyze, and interpret these transactions to ensure compliance with accounting standards, implementing best practices to reduce exposure.
• Manage and forecast cash flow to support business operations
Tax & Compliance
• Ensure financial and tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions (Canada, USA, UK and the EU), including value-added tax and transfer pricing positions.
• Optimize tax structures, treasury functions, and cross-border financial strategies to maximize profitability in a growing and scaling environment.
• Enhance sales tax compliance, implementing software for efficiency where required.
• Own the end-to-end financial audit process, including relationships with external auditors and statutory account preparations.
• Own lender compliance reporting, including covenant forecasting.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Professional accounting designation outside Canada or in Canada.
• Extensive Financial Leadership Experience: at least 7+ years in progressive finance leadership roles at privately held, mid-size technology companies, with M&A and integration experience.
• Finance Automation & Operations: A strong track record of leveraging technology and automation to streamline finance operations and controls, preferably with experience in ERP implementations or system optimizations; prior exposure to NetSuite and Salesforce is an asset.
• Collaborative Strategic Leadership: Comfortable interacting with diverse stakeholders, including C-level executives, Executive and Senior Leadership and cross-functional teams, with an ability to influence at all levels, ensuring financial strategy aligns with business objectives.
• Team Builder: Proven ability to build, lead, and mentor high-performing finance and operations teams in a fast-paced, scaling environment, promoting a culture of integrity, transparency, and collaboration. Abilities to successfully manage middle management.
• Forward-Looking & Growth-Oriented: Anticipate financial challenges and opportunities before they arise.
• Data-Driven & Commercially Minded: Interested in getting into the details, understanding process flows and combining data-driven insights with strategic thinking to influence key decisions.
• Global Financial Expertise: Experience managing multi-entity, international financial operations, including M&A, and cross-border investment strategies.
• Process, Controls and Compliance: Deep expertise in establishing and maintaining processes, internal controls, risk management practices, and audit readiness.
Finance Automation & Operations: You have a strong track record of leveraging technology and automation to streamline finance operations and controls, preferably with experience in ERP implementations or system optimizations; prior exposure to NetSuite and Salesforce is an asset.
Collaborative Strategic Leadership: You are comfortable interacting with diverse stakeholders, including C-level executives, Executive and Senior Leadership and cross-functional teams, with an ability to influence at all levels, ensuring financial strategy aligns with business objectives.
Team Builder: Proven ability to build, lead, and mentor high-performing finance and operations teams in a fast-paced, scaling environment, promoting a culture of integrity, transparency, and collaboration.
Forward-Looking & Growth-Oriented: You anticipate financial challenges and opportunities before they arise.
Data-Driven & Commercially Minded: You are interested in getting into the details, understanding process flows and combining data-driven insights with strategic thinking to influence key decisions.
Global Financial Expertise: You have experience managing multi-entity, international financial operations, including M&A, and cross-border investment strategies.
Process, Controls and Compliance: You have deep expertise in establishing and maintaining processes, internal controls, risk management practices, and audit readiness.

Permanent, Full time (40 hrs/wk) @ $200,000 to 215,000.00/yr., plus 25% variable annual bonus. Benefits include Group health, dental, life, AD&D, LTD and 4% RRSP matching.

Health/Dental Benefits, Retirement Benefits, Stock or Stock Options, Paid Holidays, Vacations, and Sick Leave, Life and/or Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Casual Dress

360insights is a partner engagement and business optimization company, enabling brands to better influence, manage, and engage with their complex channel ecosystems. We offer a suite of channel solutions including a SaaS-based platform that empowers brands to fully orchestrate their complex partner networks and optimize their promotional spend on MDF/Co-op, rebates, promotional allowances, SPIFFs, and rewards. Combining incentive management and ecosystem orchestration with a powerful data analytics engine, 360insights serves more than 300 of the most recognizable brands around the world, across multiple industries, helping them grow their indirect business.