Director, Strategic Deal Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Act as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for all revenue adjustments in weekly reporting, ensuring logic, file integrity, and formula accuracy.

• Conduct active reconciliation checks to guarantee that adjustments are precise, comprehensive, and justifiable.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new information prior to the weekly close.

• Facilitate weekly alignment meetings with FP&A and provide explanations for week-over-week variances along with stakeholder summaries.

• Manage all types of deals from inception to conclusion, including standard arrangements as well as complex, unique, and customer-specific agreements.

• Uphold and implement the Deal Desk approval matrix.

• Conduct a bi-annual Deal Desk Strategy Review with senior leadership.

• Establish the philosophy and commercial rationale for deal structures, including eligibility thresholds and parameters for customer segments.

• Oversee initial due diligence and detailed financial modeling for non-standard deals.

• Lead weekly cross-functional reviews for active non-standard deals and suggest budgetary and commercial adjustments.

• Generate monthly performance reports for senior leadership, including variance analyses against initial assumptions.

• Track cash flows and financial obligations on structured deals, update models with actuals, and proactively identify deviations.

• Manage and lead the accrual review for key Deal Desk items.

• Present well-supported accrual positions along with the relevant data and rationale in senior Finance forums.

• Directly supervise and mentor a Senior Analyst, prioritize tasks, and uphold high analytical standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline.

• 10+ years of experience in commercial finance, deal desk, revenue operations, or strategic finance.

• A minimum of 5 years with direct responsibility for deal structuring or commercial agreements.

• Capability to independently assess complex deal economics.

• Proficiency in developing defensible financial models.

• Ability to deliver clear recommendations to senior leadership.

• Strong grasp of revenue recognition, accrual accounting, and the operational mechanics involved in commercial deal management.

• Exceptional judgment and the capacity to maintain a position under commercial pressure while remaining collaborative and solution-focused.

• Proven track record of true DRI ownership, proactively identifying risks, driving processes, and escalating issues when necessary.

• Excellent communication skills with experience in presenting to CXO-level audiences.

• Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or mobile is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Health, vision, and dental benefits based on the country of residence.

• Medical coverage.

• Wellness stipends.

• Additional perks according to the country of residence.

• Opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events.