Senior Director Finance

Osborne Financial Search; Markham; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Osborne Financial Search is seeking a Senior Director of Finance for a privately held Canadian company in Ontario. The role is a strategic partner to leadership, expanding beyond traditional accounting to drive performance and data-driven decisions across the business.

Reporting to the President, you will oversee planning, budgeting, forecasting, KPI development and cross-functional collaboration, mentoring the finance team and ensuring strong controls while leveraging automation and AI to

Qualifications

• CPA with progressive finance leadership experience.
• Experience in manufacturing or operational business.
• Strong ability to connect numbers to business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis.
• Provide insights into revenue, margins, costs and profitability.
• Develop KPIs and management reporting for leadership.
• Partner with operational leaders to support decision-making and growth.
• Evaluate business cases, capital investments and efficiency opportunities.
• Leverage technology, automation and AI to improve financial reporting.
• Mentor and develop the finance team and act as trusted advisor.

Job description

Our client is a successful, privately held Canadian company with a well-established business and an entrepreneurial, growth-oriented culture. They are looking for a Senior Director of Finance to join their leadership team and take on a broad, highly visible mandate.

This is not a traditional accounting-focused finance role. While ensuring strong financial discipline remains important, the real opportunity is to become a strategic and commercial partner to the business - helping leadership better understand performance, identify opportunities and make stronger, data-driven decisions.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the President, the Senior Director of Finance will lead the finance function while spending significant time working across the organization.

The mandate will include:

• Leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis
• Providing meaningful insight into revenue, margins, pricing, costs and profitability
• Developing and enhancing KPIs and management reporting
• Partnering with operational and commercial leaders to support better decision-making
• Evaluating business cases, capital investments and growth opportunities
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, controls and overall efficiency
• Leveraging technology, automation and AI to improve the way financial information is produced and used
• Ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting and maintaining appropriate financial controls
• Leading, developing and mentoring the finance team
• Acting as a trusted financial advisor to senior leadership

The Ideal Candidate

You are a CPA with progressive finance leadership experience and a strong understanding of a manufacturing or similarly operational business.

You bring strong technical fundamentals, but your real strength is your ability to connect the numbers to the business. You are curious, analytical and commercially minded, and you naturally dig beneath financial results to understand what is driving them.

You are equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting into the details as you are sitting with senior leaders and helping shape a decision.

Experience working within a privately held, entrepreneurial or mid-sized organization would be particularly valuable.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to join a successful organization where Finance has a meaningful seat at the table. You’ll have the ability to influence how the business operates, improve the tools and information used to make decisions, and help shape the continued evolution of the finance function.

For someone who enjoys building, improving and influencing - rather than simply maintaining - there is a lot to sink your teeth into here.