Chief Financial Officer (Vancouver or Toronto)

Job Description

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Reports To: CEO / Managing Director
Location: Vancouver / Greater Vancouver Area (preferred); Toronto / Greater Toronto Area (optional). Primarily in-office with some hybrid flexibility.
Employment Type: Full-time Permanent Senior Management / Executive.

The Opportunity

The CFO is the senior finance leader reporting directly to the CEO/Managing Director and partnering closely with the executive team and Board of Directors.

This is a build role. The CFO will own the full financial engine of a growth-stage Industrialized Construction company including financial planning and analysis controllership accounting treasury and cash management capital investment and capital partner management shareholder relationships and government grants while building the team systems and controls required to support a rapidly growing business.

The successful candidate will have a mandate consisting of two primary objectives:

• Develop and secure the companys short- to medium-term capital platform in support of its vision and three-year strategic plan personally leading and owning the capital investment strategy.
• Work together with the CEO/Managing Director in all aspects of the companys planning execution and deliverables including the establishment and growth of new manufacturing and production facilities.

Initially the CFO will operate in a lean hands-on capacity working in close partnership with the CEO/Managing Director. This is a rare opportunity to shape both the financial and operational foundation of an innovative high-growth company from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Own Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and corporate financial operations. Lead financial planning and budgeting multi-year forecasting and the long-range financial model across all business and product divisions translating strategy into credible defensible financial goals.
• Own and manage capital raising and investment partnerships leading fundraising activities including financial modelling investor materials data room preparation due diligence and capital partner engagement. Ensure the company maintains sufficient capital runway to execute its growth strategy particularly in capital-intensive growth initiatives.
• Lead and manage relationships with investors lenders shareholders and capital partners supporting financing activities and ensuring continued access to capital to support the companys growth strategy.
• Oversee the FP&A function and all core accounting operations (currently outsourced) ensuring accurate timely GAAP-compliant financial reporting.
• Drive executive decision-making by building and maintaining sophisticated financial models for operations pricing product and solution profitability gross margin evolution capacity investment and scenario planning.
• Establish performance frameworks by defining monitoring and reporting KPIs and management dashboards that hold the business accountable to plan.
• Prepare Board and committee-ready financial reporting and represent the finance function with clarity and credibility in Board and investor discussions.

Team Build & Leadership

• Operate in a lean hands-on environment while partnering closely with the CEO/Managing Director to design build and scale the finance organization including its structure people systems and processes as the business grows.
• Act as a strategic business partner to operations manufacturing sales business development and senior leadership embedding financial discipline and operational accountability throughout the organization.

Qualifications

• 15 years of progressive finance experience including 5 years in a senior finance leadership role (VP Finance Finance Director or CFO) within a growth-oriented organization.
• Demonstrated track record of leading capital raises securing investment managing investor lender shareholder and capital partner relationships and executing financing transactions.
• Proven experience building and scaling finance functions within a growth-stage organization.
• Direct experience in manufacturing industrial operations or construction-related environments with a strong understanding of manufacturing cost structures supply chain inventory management and gross margin drivers.
• Strong FP&A and financial modelling expertise with the ability to independently build maintain and own complex financial models.
• Strong accounting and controllership foundation including cash flow management month-end quarter-end and year-end close processes and audit management.
• Demonstrated experience with project-based and contract cost accounting.
• Experience within a growth-stage venture-backed or institutionally backed organization that has successfully scaled through financing and manufacturing expansion.
• Exposure to international and multi-geographical operations including overseas customers.
• CFA MBA or equivalent strategic finance credential is considered an asset.
• CPA designation (or equivalent) is required.

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Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Yearly Salary Salary: 240000 - 300000