GAIN - Finance Business Partner

GAIN; Toronto; On-site; CAD 184,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks paid time off

Work from anywhere up to 4 weeks/year

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

GAIN is seeking a Finance Business Partner to drive performance through insightful financial analysis, forecasting and decision support. You will partner with leaders across functions to align financial planning with operational execution and highlight process gaps with practical solutions.

You will work on revenue focus, annual budget, monthly rolling forecasts, and scenario planning while collaborating with senior stakeholders to deliver value and strategic recommendations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of post-qualification experience in a finance role.
• Experience partnering with Senior Leadership Teams.
• Experience using large datasets and advanced Excel modelling for analysis.
• Experience in marketing, digital, or creative agency environments would be ideal.
• Ability to influence strategic decisions using diverse data sources.
• Experience building best-practice processes in a dynamic business.”

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder engagement and influence across global leaders.
• Drive transformation by improving financial processes and embedding new accounting practices.
• Month-end: production and analysis of departmental management accounts.
• Planning and analysis: revenue, delivery, sales opportunities, budgets, forecasts, risks & opportunities.

Skills

Excel modelling

Data-driven analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Financial planning

Education

ACA/CIMA/ACCA

Job description

Team: Finance

Reporting to: Jake Sydenham (Head of FB&A & Commercial Finance)

Location: Toronto, Canada

GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress.

We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organisations need to make braver, more impactful decisions.

Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. As imagineers we don't just embrace innovation - we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs.

This is where rebel thinking, smart technology, and data-driven creativity shape the future. Through our five specialist teams,Creative Studio,Conversion,Customer Science,ExperienceandPerformance. Individually, and together, we work to fuel growth and deliver measurable impact.

The Role

The Finance Business Partner plays a strategic role in driving business performance by providing insightful financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support. Partnering with business leaders across functions, this role ensures alignment between financial planning and operational execution, delivering value through data-driven insights. Where there are gaps in processes, the FBP will highlight them and provide potential solutions.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement and Influence

• Effectively communicate with and build strong relationships with global stakeholders at all levels fostering a collaborative environment.
• Drive cross functional collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise to achieve shared objectives
• Prepare impactful presentations to senior management articulating complex financial information with clarity

Driving Transformation

• Enhancing financial reporting capabilities for both key components of the Conversion Business Unit, NA and EMEA, including embedding the financial processes for the recently in-housed accounting of the NA business.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and systems. Develop and implement improvements

Month-end

• Production and analysis of departmental management accounts before presentations to CFO/Head of FP&A
• Standard month-end processing

Planning and Analysis

• Focus on Revenue, Delivery and sales opportunities
• Annual Budget
• Monthly rolling forecasts
• Risks and Opportunity management
• Business partnering financial & non-financial stakeholders
• Scenario Planning
• Ad hoc analysis required by Business Unit
• Commercial Analysis (Client profitability, resource utilisation, etc)
• Capex & Investment Committee papers/business cases

Requirements

• 5+ Years PQE (ACA/CIMA/ACCA)
• Experience business partnering Senior Leadership Teams
• Experience using large datasets, strong excel modelling and data driven skills
• Ideally experience of working within a marketing, digital or creative agency environment
• Experience in influencing strategic decisions of a business using a variety of data sources to back up recommendations and analysis
• You have built best practice and are used to a dynamic business environment where problem-solving and process implementation are attractive challenges

How You'll Work

Rebel Thinking: We don't accept "good enough". Rebel Thinking is about curiosity with courage. We make it safe to question assumptions, challenge the obvious, and explore smarter, braver ways forward, even when it feels uncomfortable. This is how new ideas, better products, and real breakthroughs happen.

Make It Happen: "We turn intent into momentum." Making it Happen is about turning ambition in to action. We move fast, learn fast, and push through obstacles together. Progress beats perfection, and momentum creates impact.

Swarming Our Expertise: "Individually smart. Collectively unstoppable." Swarming our Expertise means we win together. We commit to developing our expertise so that by combining diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences, we solve harder problems faster and deliver results no single expert could achieve together.

Benefits

• 3 weeks of paid time off to start
• Work from anywhere in the world up to 20 business days or 4 weeks per year! We want you to build a life and a career at the same time
• Wellness time, health + dental coverage, health spending account, and wellness spending account so that you can prioritize YOU

The typical hiring range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000 annually. This range reflects our commitment to our compensation philosophy, internal equity, and comes with a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Base pay will be determined based on role-related skills, knowledge, and experience.

GAIN is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity