Forward Deployment Strategist — AI for Enterprise Finance

Maxima; Toronto; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

401k

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Maxima is seeking a Forward Deployment Strategist in Toronto to guide enterprise customers through complex implementations, ensuring measurable outcomes with our agentic AI platform. You will work with CFOs and accounting teams to deploy automation and optimize month-end close efficiency.

This cross-functional role involves daily collaboration with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions and deployment playbooks.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in enterprise customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, or Technical Implementation.
• Proven track record leading complex, high-stakes software deployments across large enterprise organizations.
• Strong understanding of financial systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or Workday, or prior experience working in or with finance operations teams.
• Ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences, guiding both engineers and finance stakeholders toward a common solution.
• Excellent project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience designing scalable processes and standardizing workflows.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment with a high degree of ownership.
• Curiosity about AI and its potential to transform enterprise operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead Deployments: Own the technical and operational delivery for multiple enterprise implementations, ensuring each customer achieves their automation and close efficiency goals.
• Bridge Teams: Act as the primary interface between customers, Product, and Engineering to translate accounting workflows into well-defined implementation plans.
• Drive Execution: Manage deployment timelines, dependencies, and milestones, proactively removing blockers and coordinating technical resources to stay on track.
• Design Repeatable Processes: Create standardized frameworks, tools, and templates that streamline how Maxima is deployed across customers and industries.
• Partner with Sales: Support pre-sales scoping and discovery to define project requirements, feasibility, and implementation plans for enterprise prospects.
• Customer Advocacy: Gather insights from the field to inform product roadmap priorities, capacity planning, and future platform capabilities.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify patterns across deployments, capture best practices, and drive improvements in delivery velocity and customer outcomes.

Skills

Enterprise deployments

Solutions engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic translation

Project management

Process design

AI curiosity

Tools

NetSuite

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Job description

Maxima is seeking a Forward Deployment Strategist in Toronto to guide enterprise customers through complex implementations, ensuring measurable outcomes with our agentic AI platform. You will work with CFOs and accounting teams to deploy automation and optimize month-end close efficiency.

This cross-functional role involves daily collaboration with Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success to translate business goals into scalable technical solutions and deployment playbooks.