Directeur(trice) des finances | Director of Finance

eStruxture Data Centers; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in data center solutions seeks a skilled Director of Finance to manage accounting, audits, and cash flow management. Bring your extensive experience, CPA designation, and leadership skills to a hybrid role that offers the opportunity to influence financial decisions in a growing environment.

Qualifications

• Over 15 years of experience in accounting, reporting, and management.
• Strong team player with ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Fluent in English; intermediate French required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial statement preparation and analysis.
• Manage accounts payable and collections.
• Prepare monthly cash flow forecasts and manage bank accounts.

Skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving skills

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field

CPA designation

Tools

Microsoft Excel

ERP systems (preferably NetSuite)

Job description

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About us

eStruxture Data Centers is an award-winning company and the largest Canadian-owned data center provider with locations in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. Our solutions are designed to give customers more: more locations, more capacity, more connections that enable them to run modern, demanding enterprise applications, and offer their business the control to rapidly scale in response to unpredictable changes in business processes. eStruxture provides access to an ecosystem to almost 850 customers that trust and depend on our infrastructure and customer support, including carriers, cloud providers, media content, financial services, and enterprise customers. eStruxture offers colocation, bandwidth, security, and support services to customers across Canada in its 16 carrier and cloud-neutral facilities.

Everything starts with our dedicated and talented team. As an industry leader, our data centers help our customers improve network connectivity, redundancy, and uptime, scale up or down, increase cost savings, and provide a high level of physical security. This success is driven by the people of eStruxture.

About the role

Reporting to the Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer and working closely with the Director of FP&A, the Director of Finance is responsible for general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable collection, banking, and cash management. The role also includes overseeing financial statement audits and various government audits.

What You’ll Own

General Accounting

• Oversee financial statement preparation, consolidation, analysis of operations, and corporate financial planning.
• Review and analyze monthly financial reports.
• Analyze actual costs, budgets, and results compared to forecasts/plans.
• Oversee intercompany transactions and their accounting in appropriate subsidiaries.
• Manage audit and tax functions, coordinating with audit firms, tax advisors, and government agencies.
• Perform projects or ad-hoc analysis as assigned by the CFO.
• Supervise payroll, approve submissions, remittances, commissions, and year-end remittances.
• Approve purchase orders and expense reports.

Accounts Payable

• Manage the activities of the accounts payable team.
• Provide instructions on weekly payments and approve them.

Collection

• Review accounts receivable and make decisions to maximize collection.
• Guide team members on sending payment reminders.

Cash Management

• Prepare monthly cash flow forecasts and plan bank draws.
• Prepare reports for bank draws and record interest hedges.
• Manage transfers between subsidiary bank accounts.

ERP Management

• Support finance team in ERP usage.
• Ensure proper implementation and testing of system developments; establish policies and communicate with other departments.

M&A

• Assist in due diligence processes for potential transactions.
• Lead integration processes of acquisitions under the CFO's supervision.

What you bring

Experience

• Over 15 years of experience in accounting, reporting, and management.

Education/Certification/Designation

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
• CPA designation required.

Competencies

• Strong team player with ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment where quality, innovation, and quick decision-making are key.
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and logical thinking.
• Fluent in English; intermediate French required.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Experience in technology companies preferred.

Technical Skills/Knowledge

• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience with ERP systems, preferably NetSuite.
• Payroll experience preferred.

Working Conditions

The role offers a hybrid work environment (office and home-based) with a standard Monday to Friday schedule. The candidate must be able to meet tight deadlines, handle pressure, and manage stress. All offers are contingent upon successful background checks.

Let’s Talk

If you are seeking a role where your financial leadership will impact a growing company — we look forward to connecting with you.