CFO, Canada

Company Description

Dentsu Canada is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across Canada who blend local knowledge with global expertise.

Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future.

Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 1200+ people in dentsu Canada.

This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu.

Job Description

The Canada CFO is an all-round CFO role with strong commercial accountability and sits on the Canada Executive team. The role will provide leadership to the finance function across Canada in the areas of Commercial Finance, Controllership, Operational Finance and Transformation.

The CFO is the strategic finance lead and advisor for the CEO and supports the achievement of the revenue and profitability in the region.

The role is accountable for revenues and profitability in Canada and all the practice areas that operate in the market and will report to the America's CFO.

The Canada CFO also sits on the Americas Finance Executive working collaboratively with other senior finance executives in developing and diving the agenda for Americas Finance, including transformation, systems and platforms, best practices, and building strong connections and culture.

Key Accountabilities :

• Advise on key business decisions through sound commercial judgement, highlighting options, trade-offs, risks and opportunities
• Lead the initiative to grow the business through revenue enhancement and achievement of healthy margins overall and in all the client engagements.

Drives the culture of excellent commercial judgement in business decision making as the leader of the finance community in the region.

• Lead the short and long-term budgetary planning and cost management for Canada in alignment with Dentsu International global processes
• Support the growth and reshaping of business portfolio in the region across services lines
• Sponsor the building and development of finance capabilities, tools, and skills within the Region on a continuing basis to increase efficiency and the value add of the Finance team across the business
• Visibly sponsor and drive continuous transformation, improvement / change programs throughout their implementation to achieve project benefit
• Champion the development of a diverse, high performing and commercially focused finance team in the region. Direct responsibility for performance and career development for senior finance talent in Canada.
• Champion for strategic initiatives for Dentsu International in collaboration with other functions, namely HR, Tech and legal
• Responsible for External Audit and Audit Sign off at a Regional Level and Management of Working Capital and Working Capital Improvement Initiatives at a Regional Level
• Prioritize KPIs and track performance against internal targets and external best practices, making timely interventions at appropriate times
• Instill a sense of operational excellence and understanding of the competitive environment across the Finance teams in the region

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience, with 10+ years of financial management experience
• Graduate degree and / or internationally recognized finance / accounting qualification ( ACA / CPA, CMA or CFA) or MBA with Finance specialism
• Extensive experience working in a fast paced, dynamic advertising or marketing environment and managing multiple stakeholders and working in a highly matrixed organization
• CFO / Senior finance leadership experience for a large market or at regional or global level
• Business strategy, acquisitions, and post-merger integration
• Experience of business and finance transformation
• Strong leadership and talent development experience in the finance function
• Experience with launching new businesses and changing overall business strategy
• Strong operational focus of project-based businesses
• Extensive experience of pricing and negotiation
• Experience in both IFRS and local GAAP accounting standards

Additional Information

The salary range for this position is $300,000-$350,000 CAD. Actual salary within the salary range will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, and skills.

A range of medical, dental, RRSP, paid time off, and / or other benefits also are available to all permanent employees.

We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds foster a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better business results.

We strive to create workplaces that reflect the clients we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work.

We are committed to working with our candidates from all ability levels throughout the recruitment process to ensure that they have what they need to be at their best.

If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact or to begin a conversation about your individual accessibility needs throughout the hiring process.

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