Head of Finance

Behavox • Montreal, QC

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Head of Finance reports to the Chief Operating Officer and leads the finance function for a global business generating over $50M in revenue, with a growth trajectory toward $100M over the next 3–5 years. The finance function must scale with that trajectory, built to investor-grade standard and ahead of the curve the business is on. The role is accountable for financial planning, accounting, reporting, treasury, compliance, controls, and investor-facing outputs across a multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction environment.
The role serves as the senior financial advisor to the CEO and COO on forecasting, liquidity, capital structure, financing strategy, investment decisions, and growth planning. Behavox has a mature M&A strategy in place as one of several growth levers, and the Head of Finance is expected to bring strong hands-on financial modelling capability to acquisition evaluation, financing analysis, scenario planning, and post-transaction financial integration planning.
The Head of Finance is also accountable for building a scalable, AI-native finance function. This includes managing the finance team, maturing financial systems and processes, implementing end-to-end automation, integrating AI-enabled workflows, and improving the speed, accuracy, control, and maintainability of finance operations.

Requirements

• Enterprise FP&A and financial model architecture – Knowledge of forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, revenue planning, cash flow modelling, and investment analysis.
• Capital structure and treasury – Knowledge of financing instruments, liquidity planning, banking relationships, debt facilities, covenants, FX exposure, and cash controls.
• Global accounting and multi-jurisdictional reporting – Knowledge of accounting standards, revenue recognition, consolidation, intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, and financial controls across jurisdictions.
• Finance operating model and team leadership – Knowledge of how to structure finance teams, processes, systems, workflows, access controls, documentation, and operating cadences.
• AI-native finance systems and automation – Knowledge of finance systems, workflow automation, AI-enabled tooling, agentic processes, and data flows across financial operations.

Responsibilities

• Leads the finance team and owns the finance operating model across FP&A, accounting, reporting, treasury, controls, compliance, and investor relations.
• Holds ultimate accountability for output quality, role clarity, control discipline, and scalability.
• Personally owns the quality and logic of the company’s core financial models.
• Reviews, challenges, and helps the team refine models used for forecasting, M&A, financing, scenario planning, and executive decision-making.
• Drives the annual budget, re-forecasting cadence, and management reporting process.
• Ensures Sales, RevOps, People, and Finance inputs are translated into controlled planning outputs, including pipeline-to-revenue bridges, personnel budgets, non-personnel budgets, commissions accruals, opex and capex.
• Oversees cash forecasting, liquidity planning, banking relationships, costs controls, payment controls, debt facilities, covenant reporting, FX exposure, and financing analysis.
• Provides senior judgement on capital structure, financing timing, and cost of capital.
• Holds ultimate accountability for close, consolidation, audit readiness, statutory compliance, accounting policy application, transfer pricing coordination, and investor reporting.
• Ensures the team has the systems, controls, automation, documentation, and advisor support required to execute consistently.

Benefits

• competitive cash compensation
• an equity award aligned with long-term value creation
• comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families
• A generous time-off policy of 30 days annually, plus public holidays and sick leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed