Finance Director – Mikros Animation

Rodeo FX•Montreal, QC

About The Position

Mikros Animation is seeking a Finance Director to play a key role in their growth, aiming to strengthen financial visibility and support large-scale projects. This position involves leading the finance team, collaborating with studio leadership and management, and acting as a business partner to various departments. The role requires a rigorous, proactive, and business-oriented individual with expertise in finance, commercial judgment, and collaborative leadership within a creative, international, and project-oriented environment. The Finance Director will oversee financial management, reporting, budget planning, forecasting, treasury, accounting operations, and continuous improvement of functional practices, while benefiting from shared resources at the Rodeo FX Group.

Requirements

CPA designation or equivalent qualification, strongly desired.
Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in finance, accounting, financial control, FP&A, or business partnership, including experience in a management or financial leadership role.
Demonstrated experience in financial management, reporting, budgets, forecasts, treasury, and performance analysis.
Solid ability to act as a business partner to executives, operational teams, and non-financial stakeholders.
Ability to analyze profitability, margins, risks, and cash flow impacts related to projects or business decisions.
Strong business judgment, with the ability to translate financial data into concrete recommendations.
Ability to anticipate financial issues, project short- and medium-term impacts, and escalate risks at the right time.
Strong sense of ownership, with a demonstrated ability to take charge of issues, structure the required actions, and lead them to resolution.
Experience in a project-oriented environment, professional services, production, media, animation, VFX, video games, or the creative industry is considered an important asset.
Comfortable with ERPs, financial systems, reporting tools, and advanced Excel. Experience with NetSuite, Flow, or production environments is an asset.
Ability to evolve in a fast-paced, complex, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to demystify financial information and build clear, transparent, and proactive exchanges with financial and non-financial interlocutors.
Rigor, integrity, and commitment to sound and transparent financial governance.
Fluency in French and English, both oral and written, in order to collaborate with local and international teams and partners.

Nice To Haves

Collaborative leadership and the ability to influence in a multidisciplinary environment.
High level of autonomy, sense of priorities, and ability to structure work in a changing context.
Analytical mind, financial rigor, and ability to step back and look at business issues.
Commercial judgment and ability to support decisions related to profitability, risks, and performance.
Intellectual curiosity and the desire to improve practices, tools, and processes.
Ability to collaborate effectively with financial, operational, commercial, and creative teams.
High sense of responsibility, discretion, and reliability in handling financial information.

Responsibilities

Act as a key partner to the President of Mikros Animation, the CFO, and the management teams.
Support business decisions by providing clear, rigorous, and action-oriented analyses.
Be the financial reference in management discussions, identifying risks, opportunities, and the impacts of proposed decisions.
Contribute to the monitoring of budgets, forecasts, treasury, margins, and key indicators.
Challenge financial and operational assumptions when necessary, while maintaining a constructive approach with the teams.
Support business priorities, financial plans, and Mikros Animation’s growth initiatives.
Participate in the client proposal development process to ensure a rigorous evaluation of profitability, budgetary assumptions, and associated risks.
Support commercial, operational, and production teams in the financial analysis of projects.
Prepare and analyze scenarios to inform decisions related to projects, resources, production territories, and business priorities.
Improve visibility on margins, costs, financial commitments, and impacts on cash flow.
Help teams make informed decisions regarding production priorities and performance goals.
Oversee Mikros Animation’s accounting operations and ensure the reliability, quality, and compliance of financial information.
Present monthly results to management, highlighting variances, trends, risks, and levers for action.
Ensure compliance with applicable legal, tax, regulatory, and compliance obligations.
Ensure the robustness of internal controls, financial processes, and governance practices.
Maintain trusting relationships with internal and external partners, including auditors, advisors, financial institutions, and other stakeholders.
Lead budget processes and continuous forecasting, ensuring their rigor, relevance, and monitoring with management.
Supervise treasury management and anticipate short-, medium-, and long-term liquidity needs.
Identify performance gaps, analyze their causes, and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
Develop a clear vision of future financial issues to help teams anticipate impacts on projects, operations, and studio growth.
Collaborate closely with the Rodeo FX Group finance teams and the financial leaders of other entities to ensure the alignment of practices, tools, and reporting.
Optimize financial, accounting, and forecasting processes to improve the efficiency and quality of information.
Ensure that financial systems adequately support current operations and future growth.
Work with relevant teams to ensure the reliability of processes related to payroll, when required.
Propose improvements to tools, working methods, and reporting practices to support faster and more reliable decision-making.
Lead, support, and develop the Mikros Animation finance team.
Foster a culture of rigor, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Clarify priorities, support execution, and ensure a high level of quality in financial deliverables.
Build trusting relationships with financial, commercial, operational, and creative teams.