Director, Finance

Lead with rigor, clarity, and impact as Coveo scales!

Are you energized by leading teams through change while strengthening financial foundations? In this role, you’ll oversee Coveo’s operational finance function, ensuring financial excellence, compliance, and scalability in a fast-growing environment.

You’ll lead a key team at the heart of Coveo’s operations, partnering closely with leadership to support growth initiatives, strategic decisions, and continuous optimization across finance, payroll, and accounting.

As our Director of Finance, you will:

• Lead and develop the operational finance team, fostering strong performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee accounting operations, financial close, and the preparation of accurate financial statements in compliance with accounting standards.
• Ensure effective cash management, liquidity planning, and strong relationships with financial institutions.
• Supervise payroll operations and ensure compliance with tax and regulatory requirements.
• Support growth initiatives through financial analysis, investment projects, and strategic decision-making.
• Manage relationships with external auditors and ensure smooth audit processes.

Here is what will qualify you for the role:

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in finance, including leadership responsibilities.
• Strong expertise in accounting, financial reporting, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to lead teams through change and drive process improvement and optimization.
• Solid business acumen, with the ability to support executive decision-making with clear and actionable insights.

What will make you stand out:

• Experience in a high-growth, technology, or international environment.
• Demonstrated track record of improving financial processes, controls, and operational efficiency.
• Comfort operating in evolving, ambiguous contexts while maintaining rigor and reliability.
• Alignment with Coveo’s values and a collaborative leadership style.

Do you think you can bring this role to life? Or add your own color? You don’t need to check every single box; passion goes a long way and we appreciate that skillsets are transferable.

Send us your application, we want to hear from you!

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We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of, for example, age, gender, disability, gaps in CV, national or ethnic background.

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Coveo is a Quebec-based company, pioneer in AI-powered search and recommendations. Coveo uses AI technologies and intelligent search to personalize every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified content, unified interactions behavioral data and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, e-commerce, contact centers and intranets efficient, effortless, content-rich, thus boosting conversion.

If it were easy, someone else would have done it. All of our colleagues at Coveo find the drive to continuously seek new challenges and test roads no one else has ever explored. This ethos has allowed us to become a world leader in an innovative industry and to create a collaborative, diverse and trusting place to work filled with amazingly talented and passionate people. We love a good challenge, and we never say no to an opportunity to learn and develop new cutting-edge skills.

In-person
This role requires you to be in the office full-time, whether it be at our Quebec, Montreal, Weert, or London locations. Our modern infrastructures are designed to enhance cross-team collaboration and promote overall well-being.

Hybrid
Our offices in Quebec City, Montreal, London and Weert are designed to foster collaboration and your well-being. We gather there on our pillar days two times a week to strengthen in-person interactions and encourage creativity, all while providing you with the flexibility of a hybrid environment.

Remote
We hire from all over the world because the diversity of backgrounds fuels our continuous innovation. Our benefits will enable you to work comfortably from home, but you may be required to travel to attend our in-person team-building events.