Fractional CFO

Convoy Finance; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental Care

Extended Health Care

Flexible, remote-friendly setup

Job summary

Convoy Finance is seeking a hands-on, strategic Advisor, FinOps & Accounting (Manager) to support a portfolio of early-stage startups across Web3 and emerging tech. You will lead financial operations, accounting, reporting, and scalable systems to drive smart decision-making.

You’ll partner with founders on budgets, forecasts, fundraising, treasury, tax compliance, and investor communications, ensuring audit readiness and actionable insights for growth.

Qualifications

• CPA designation completed.
• 5–10 years of progressive experience in public accounting, controllership, or finance leadership.
• Experience with startups or high-growth clients is a major plus.
• Experience with audit readiness and financial reporting for multiple clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage financial operations with a focus on accounting operations.
• Oversee monthly reporting, financial statements reviews, and performance analysis for multiple clients.
• Build scalable accounting processes to stay audit- and investor-ready.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling with founders to guide growth.
• Support fundraising, capital planning, and treasury management.
• Coordinate and review tax filings and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Lead or support M&A due diligence and financial system integrations.

Skills

Communication

FinOps

Accounting

Education

CPA designation

Tools

Excel

QuickBooks Online

Xero

Crypto-native finance tools

Job description

• Job Type: Manager

• Job Title: Advisor, FinOps & Accounting

• Job Category (NOC): Financial Auditors and Accountants

• Level: Manager

• Address: 325 Front St West, 2nd Flr, Suite #2060, Toronto, ON M5V 2Y1

• Employment Location Arrangement: On site

• Job Schedule: Full-Time, Monday – Friday

• Pay:90K-140K CAD

• Additional pay: Significant bonus based on performance

• Benefits: Dental Care | Extended Health Care

About the Role

Convoy Finance is looking for a hands-on, strategic Fractional CFO to support a portfolio of early-stage and growth-stage startups across Web3 and emerging technology sectors.

This role is perfect for a finance leader who loves variety and work with challenging accounting and finops work — someone who can dive into client operations, build scalable financial systems, and provide actionable insights that help founders make smarter decisions. You’ll act as a trusted finance partner to multiple startups, leading everything from financial reporting and cash flow planning to strategic advisory and investor communications. This role involves actually DOING the work.

What You’ll Do

Lead and work on financial operations with a heavy emphasis on accounting operations

• Oversee monthly reporting, financial statement reviews, and performance analysis for multiple clients.

• Implement clean, scalable accounting processes to help startups stay audit- and investor-ready.

• Bookkeeping and run account payable and invoicing process.

Strategic finance & advisory

• Partner with founders to build budgets, forecasts, and financial models that guide decision-making and growth.

• Support fundraising, capital planning, and treasury management, helping teams allocate resources effectively.

Tax & compliance oversight

• Coordinate and review corporate and personal tax filings, ensuring clients remain fully compliant.

• Identify tax-efficient structures and operational improvements for early-stage companies.

Audit & assurance aupport

• Manage client audit and review processes, liaising with external auditors. This is part of audit readiness work we do for most client with US and Canadian audits.

Special projects

• Lead or support M&A due diligence, restructuring, and financial system integrations.

• Drive internal process improvements across the Convoy Finance client base.

Education and experience:

• Degree in Accounting with CPA designation (completed) required.

• 5–10 years of progressive experience in public accounting, controllership, or finance leadership.

• Experience with firm working with mid-market client in audit a major plus.

• Experience working with startups or high-growth clients is a major plus.

• Experience with controllership work a major plus.

• Experience as COO chief of staff with Venture backed VC a plus.

Technical Proficiency

• Skilled in Excel a must

• Familiarity with QuickBooks Online, Xero, and crypto-native finance tools is an asset.

• Knowledge of full accounting process

Mindset & Soft Skills

• Strong communicator who can simplify complex financial topics for non-finance founders.

• Comfortable managing multiple client priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.

• Thrives in a culture of autonomy, collaboration, and accountability.

• Efficiency of work and ability to think fast is a must to thrive in this role.

• Have the get it done attitude and the ability to learn new tools and jump on CEO facing task.

Why Join Convoy Finance

• Work with innovative startups pushing the boundaries of technology and digital assets.

• Learn directly from experienced CFOs and finance operators across multiple industries.

• Flexible, remote-first setup with competitive compensation.

• Opportunity to accelerate your CFO career path and make a tangible impact on clients from day one.

Why Convoy?

You’ll work with interesting companies, smart people and problems that don’t always come with an instruction manual.

You’ll have direct exposure to founders and senior finance leaders and get to see how growing companies actually operate. Because we’re small, your work is visible and your ideas can have an impact.

We’re remote-friendly, with team members working from Toronto and different parts of the world.

It’s fast-paced. It’s challenging. And it’s definitely not boring.

If you want a role where you can keep learning, take real ownership and grow beyond traditional accounting, we’d like to hear from you.