Director of Finance

The successful candidate can be based in Vancouver, Calgary, or Edmonton, offering flexibility while working closely with leadership and key stakeholders across the organization.

About The Company

Kingsman Scientific Management (KSM) is a management, consulting, and investment firm focused on helping organizations transform, grow, and create lasting value. Leveraging expertise in business strategy, operational improvement, technology, capital deployment, and corporate restructuring, KSM partners with companies across diverse industries to deliver practical solutions and measurable results. KSM is currently supporting strategic initiatives involving Ardenton Capital Corporation, a portfolio management and investment organization with operations across Canada and the United Kingdom, further demonstrating its commitment to complex, high‑impact business mandates.

About The Role

This position is a Kingsman Scientific Management (KSM) hire engaged on the Ardenton restructuring mandate as its initial assignment. Subject to successful completion of the wind‑down objectives, the role will transition into an ongoing senior finance leadership position within KSM’s platform, potentially evolving toward a VP Finance & Chief of Staff function. The role provides leadership across internal finance resources and outsourced service providers while partnering closely with executive management. Reporting directly to the CEO of Kingsman Scientific Management and indirectly to the CFO, the Director of Finance, Restructuring & Reporting will own and elevate the financial operations, reporting, cash flow visibility, analysis, and restructuring support required for the Ardenton CCAA wind‑down mandate (approximately 24‑36 months). The mandate includes oversight of multiple Canadian and UK entities and associated portfolio investments during the restructuring and wind‑down process.

This is a senior, hands‑on finance role that blends controllership, FP&A, reporting automation, dashboarding, financial modelling, and executive decision support. The successful candidate will be expected to manage core accounting and reporting requirements while also building tools, insights, and processes that provide management with clear visibility into financial performance, cash flow, risks, obligations, and restructuring priorities. The role is well suited to a CPA who is comfortable working in a lean environment, partnering closely with executives, coordinating outsourced transactional support, and translating complex financial information into practical, decision‑ready reporting.

Finance Leadership, Accounting & Controls

• Lead the finance and accounting function required to support the restructuring / wind‑down mandate, including month‑end close, financial reporting, management reporting, treasury, audit, tax compliance, and related finance operations.
• Develop, document, implement, maintain, and monitor accounting processes and internal controls to ensure accurate reporting, accountability, and appropriate governance.
• Oversee bookkeeping performed by internal resources, third‑party bookkeepers, and/or outsourced providers; perform or review higher‑complexity accounting tasks as required.
• Prepare and/or review accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, intercompany entries, foreign currency translation, investment value changes, consolidations, and other reporting schedules.
• Manage and improve accounting system processes, including Sage Intacct or similar platforms, to support reporting accuracy and efficiency.
• Provide oversight and direction to financial analyst and staff accounting resources, while coordinating outsourced bookkeeping, payroll, HR, benefits, and other finance administration providers.

Treasury, Cash Flow & Restructuring Visibility

• Monitor cash balances, inflows, and outflows with a focus on short‑ and medium‑term liquidity planning.
• Maintain cash‑basis reporting and rolling cash‑flow forecasts to support executive decision‑making, covenant compliance, restructuring obligations, and wind‑down planning.
• Identify cash flow risks, funding requirements, timing issues, and reporting gaps that require executive attention.
• Support banking administration and coordinate with bank administrators, external advisors, internal stakeholders, and executives as required.
• Support debt covenant monitoring, final debt repayment and release processes, and restructuring‑related liquidity management activities.

Financial & Management Reporting

• Lead the production of monthly financial reporting, management reporting, supporting schedules, variance analysis, and reporting commentary.
• Develop and maintain analysis of revenue, expenses, obligations, cash flow, and restructuring‑related financial activity on both an accrual and cash basis.
• Lead the preparation of executive reporting, board materials, stakeholder updates, investor, creditor, claimholder and plan administrator reporting packages, ensuring timely communication throughout the restructuring mandate.
• Ensure financial information is timely, accurate, complete, and presented in a format that supports decision‑making.

Portfolio / Entity Reporting & Analysis

• Collect, review, and analyze financial and operational data from relevant entities or portfolio‑related sources as required during the restructuring mandate.
• Aggregate, consolidate and analyze financial information and assess monthly reporting submissions for completeness, accuracy, reasonableness, and alignment to reporting standards.
• Conduct financial performance reviews, identify key trends, and assess risks, obligations, and decision points.
• Provide practical guidance on reporting, internal controls, budgeting, forecasting, and finance process improvement where required.
• Support portfolio company governance processes, asset realization activities, exit transactions, sales processes, refinancings, dissolutions, and related financial review requirements.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning

• Lead the development and maintenance of annual budgets, forecasts, and longer‑range planning tools as required for the restructuring period.
• Manage budgeting and forecasting templates, timelines, data collection, submission review, consolidation, and analysis.
• Perform regular variance analysis and provide insights into performance trends, cash flow implications, restructuring impacts, and risks.
• Support strategic and operational planning through financial modelling, scenario analysis, and recommendations.
• Maintain and enhance valuation models, asset disposition analyses, claims‑satisfaction tracking, and distribution waterfall models required during the restructuring and wind‑down process.

Payroll, Benefits & HR Process Ownership

• Oversee and ensure effective delivery of payroll processes through outsourced Canadian and UK payroll providers.
• Oversee employee benefits administration, pension obligations, expense reimbursements, and statutory reporting requirements.
• Coordinate board compensation administration and related tax reporting requirements.
• Maintain employee records and HR documentation and support employee onboarding and off‑boarding activities as required.
• Act as the primary internal point of accountability for outsourced HR and payroll providers.

Dashboards, Power BI, AI & Advanced Analytics

• Build and maintain dashboards, visualizations, and reporting tools that provide timely visibility into financial performance, cash flow, obligations, restructuring milestones, and key business drivers.
• Use Power BI, advanced Excel, AI‑enabled tools, and other data analysis platforms to streamline reporting and improve the accessibility and usefulness of financial information.
• Develop and maintain financial models to support valuation, return analysis, scenario planning, restructuring decisions, and executive‑level analysis.
• Organize and streamline data collection processes to reduce manual effort and increase reporting consistency and reliability.

Audit, Tax & Compliance

• Manage audit planning and completion, including preparation and review of working papers, supporting schedules, and variance analysis.
• Coordinate with external service providers on corporate tax compliance, sales tax compliance, registrations, filings, and remittances.
• Ensure finance‑related compliance requirements are completed accurately, on time, and aligned with the needs of the restructuring process.
• Coordinate Canadian and UK corporate tax filings, including cross‑border reporting requirements, transfer pricing support, and related compliance activities through external advisors.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will bring a strong blend of controllership, FP&A, restructuring support, reporting automation, financial systems, and analytical capability. They will be comfortable in a hands‑on, entrepreneurial environment where priorities can shift and the work requires both technical depth and executive‑level judgment.

Skills and Qualifications

Required Qualifications & Experience

• CPA designation required.
• Demonstrated experience managing finance functions across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions; Canada‑UK reporting experience considered a strong asset.
• Demonstrated use of Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or equivalent AI tools to automate reporting, accelerate analysis, improve forecasting, and enhance decision support capabilities.
• Progressive senior finance experience, ideally including controllership, FP&A, cash flow management, management reporting, and financial analysis.
• Experience in restructuring, turnaround, insolvency, wind‑down, portfolio management, private equity, multi‑entity organizations, or complex owner‑managed businesses would be a strong asset.
• Strong technical accounting skills, including month‑end close, consolidations, accrual accounting, audit support, tax compliance coordination, and internal controls.
• Demonstrated ability to build budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, cash flow models, and financial models.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong capability with Power BI, dashboarding, data visualization, AI‑enabled reporting tools, and financial systems.
• Experience with Sage Intacct or similar accounting systems would be an asset.
• Ability to coordinate outsourced transactional activities such as bookkeeping and payroll while focusing internal effort on higher‑impact analysis, reporting, and decision support.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present financial information clearly to CEOs, CFOs, boards, advisors, creditors, portfolio stakeholders, and external service providers.

Personal Attributes

• Senior, hands‑on, and execution‑oriented.
• Analytical, detail‑oriented, and commercially minded.
• Comfortable operating in a restructuring / wind‑down environment.
• Strong business judgment and ability to identify what matters most.
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to manage ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Collaborative and relationship‑oriented, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• High level of accuracy, accountability, discretion, and professional integrity.
• Builder mentality with a demonstrated ability to design and improve processes in lean, resource‑constrained, entrepreneurial environments.
• Energized by milestone‑driven restructuring or transformation mandates and comfortable operating in a high‑accountability environment with evolving priorities.

Positioning Statement

This role bridges controllership, FP&A, restructuring support, treasury oversight, reporting automation, portfolio governance, and executive decision support. The position offers a unique opportunity to lead the finance function through a complex restructuring mandate while building a pathway toward future senior finance leadership responsibilities within Kingsman Scientific Management.

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