Overview
Head of Finance Jobs in Canada at Clarity Recruitment
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Remote – Canada
Salary: CAD $165,000–$185,000
Industry: FinTech
About the Opportunity
Our client is a remote-first Canadian technology company in a high-growth phase. We’re partnering with them to hire a Director of Finance to own the finance function end-to-end.
This is the senior-most finance seat in the business, reporting directly to the CEO. You’ll inherit an established team with a mandate to run day-to-day finance, then modernize it. Much of the function runs manually on spreadsheets today, and this role owns rebuilding it with an AI-and-automation-first approach so the company can scale without a proportional increase in headcount.
You’ll take responsibility for day-to-day processing and build a working command of the numbers. From there the mandate shifts to modeling, forecasting, investor reporting, and standing up the automation that lets the team self-serve.
Key Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day transaction processing end-to-end: payroll, AR and invoicing, AP, and accruals across a multi-entity, multi-currency structure
- Run monthly close, compliance, and external audit support
- Own cash management, burn, and runway visibility in a growth-stage setting
- Lead financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting, translating complex models into documents non-technical leaders can understand and manipulate
- Own KPI and investor reporting: runway, ARR, Net Dollar Retention, cohort performance, and operational efficiency
- Serve as the primary finance contact for investors, compliance, and external reporting
- Modernize the finance stack: identify high-value automation, stand up AI-enabled and agentic workflows, and apply judgment on when automated output can be trusted
- Communicate directly with partners and stakeholders, including in fast-moving channels; handle partner and vendor financial onboarding and due diligence
What You Bring
- 5+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience
- Experience in a SaaS startup or high-growth tech environment
- Hands-on ownership of at least one automated finance system you selected, built, and still maintain
- Experience with non-standard transaction flows
- Strong FP&A and modeling skills that have influenced real executive decisions, leading with the recommendation before the detail
- A clear instinct to reach for AI/automation over manual work, with the judgment to validate output before relying on it
- Comfort operating with high autonomy in ambiguity, surfacing blockers early with a recommended path forward
Title: Head of Finance
Company: Clarity Recruitment
Location: Canada