<p><strong>About our client: </strong>A high-growth SaaS company dedicated to delivering innovative technology solutions that empower their clients to achieve more. As they continue scaling, they are seeking a dynamic Vice President of Finance to provide strategic financial leadership and operational excellence across the organization.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Role Overview: </strong>The VP of Finance will serve as a key member of the executive leadership team, directly partnering with the CEO to drive financial strategy, discipline, and insight across the business. This individual will oversee FP& A, operational accounting, financial reporting, compliance, and audits while ensuring alignment with IFRS standards. The ideal candidate brings proven experience leading finance functions in a fast-paced SaaS or technology environment.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead and scale the FP& A function, including budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and long-term planning.</li><li>Oversee all operational accounting functions, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and scalability of financial processes.</li><li>Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting in accordance with IFRS.</li><li>Manage external audits and maintain strong internal controls and compliance frameworks.</li><li>Act as a trusted business partner to the CEO and leadership team, providing financial insights and strategic guidance to support decision-making and growth initiatives.</li><li>Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing finance team to support the company’s scaling ambitions.</li><li>Partner cross-functionally with operations, sales, and product teams to optimize business performance.</li></ul>
<p>One British Columbia’s most defining assets are its trees. Towering Cedars and Douglas Firs, hearty pines, spruce, and Larch. The trees and forests of British Columbia have helped define our province and shape our daily lives. The health of our trees and forests is vital to BC’s ecosystem and our economy; our client, a thriving business in BC’s Forestry / Silviculture Industry, is dedicated to tending our forests and helping them continue to thrive.</p><p><br></p><p>Based out of East Vancouver, this organization’s roots lay in tree planting. From there, they have diversified to include many aspects of the silviculture value chain, including reforestation, ecosystem analysis, surveying, and First Nations consultation and partnerships. As the business continues to grow, adapt, and take on new partnerships, the need for a sophisticated and thoughtful Director of Finance has become abundantly clear.</p><p><br></p><p>Reporting to the CEO and Executive Management Committee, the Director of Finance will play a significant and strategic role in developing processes and procedures that allow the business to continue to scale and building management reporting and KPIs to assist in strategic decision making, while ensuring the day-to-day accounting and financial reporting is accurate, timely, and meaningful.</p><p><br></p><p>Key responsibilities would include:</p><p>- Oversight and functioning of the accounting department from accounts payable to the production of financial statements and management reporting</p><p>- Prepare cash-flow reports and projections</p><p>- Evaluate, apply and refine policies, procedures, controls and most methodologies</p><p>- Manage the production of, and monthly monitoring of, the annual budgets and forecasts</p><p>- Work closely with the executive team and operational leaders to ensure efficient and successful organization-wide operations</p><p>- Present monthly financial reports to executive committee and stakeholders</p><p>- Support Finance Department initiatives, such as software and systems upgrades and other departmental or organization-wide improvements, with research, planning, and implementation, as required</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
