Director of Finance & Strategic Growth (SaaS)

Spellbook; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option grants

Flexible work environment

Monthly meals

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Spellbook is hiring a Director of Finance to translate strategy into financial plans and guide investment decisions. You’ll collaborate with the VP of Finance and executives to develop insights, build robust models, and drive capital allocation across growth, product, and operations.

You’ll own planning, forecasting, and dashboards, ensuring data integrity and clear ownership while communicating a compelling financial narrative to the board.

Qualifications

• Run planning, forecasting, and business partnering at a high-growth B2B software company.
• Experience with usage-based or hybrid pricing models.
• Led a meaningful finance systems or process change and can discuss scope and outcomes.
• Turned a messy operational data set into a narrative for an executive audience.
• Presented to senior leadership or a board and defended the numbers under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Build investment cases for major strategic bets, new segments, market entry, GTM and product investments, and lead post-investment reviews to assess expected versus realized returns.
• Own the framework for allocating spend and headcount across GTM, R&D, and G&A, including mechanisms and decision criteria for reallocating resources as priorities change.
• Own the annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and rolling outlook processes, establishing inputs, owners, timelines, and accountability for forecast accuracy.
• Make unit economics legible to non-finance leaders, including gross margin and model/inference costs, cost-to-serve, CAC payback, customer profitability, and NRR/GRR.
• Partner with GTM and Product on pricing and packaging as the model evolves, including usage-based components and stress-test scenarios.
• Work with the finance team to shape systems roadmap: CRM, billing, ERP, expense, and reporting; drive implementation with RevOps, Data, and external partners.
• Partner with the VP Finance and executive team on board materials, translating performance and forecast changes into a clear financial narrative.
• Build the capabilities, processes, and operating cadence for a high-performing strategic finance function.

Skills

FP&A experience

Strategic finance

Business finance

SaaS metrics

Modeling

Systems literacy

Tools

CRM

Billing

ERP

Reporting

Job description

Spellbook is hiring a Director of Finance to translate strategy into financial plans and guide investment decisions. You’ll collaborate with the VP of Finance and executives to develop insights, build robust models, and drive capital allocation across growth, product, and operations.

You’ll own planning, forecasting, and dashboards, ensuring data integrity and clear ownership while communicating a compelling financial narrative to the board.