Finance Manager

About this role

FINANCE MANAGER

Location: Canada | Remote Department: Finance Reports To: Abby White | Manager, FP&A https://www.linkedin.com/in/abby-white-cpa-9019055b/ Type: Permanent | Full-Time Vacancy Status: This is an active, approved role and we are currently hiring for this position.

ABOUT SOLINK

At Solink, our mission is to safeguard what matters most. We provide businesses with the tools to know sooner and act faster by transforming video security into real-time operational insights.

Our cloud-based platform integrates seamlessly with your existing cameras and systems, turning them into intelligent sensors that detect and interpret key moments. This empowers teams to make data-driven decisions, enhance security, and improve operational efficiency.

Trusted by over 30,000 locations across 32+ countries - including brands like McDonald’s and JYSK - Solink delivers clarity when it counts. Our solutions help businesses reduce shrink, optimize performance, and respond proactively to potential threats.

We're growing rapidly, earning industry recognition, and scaling with purpose. We’ve been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, Business Intelligence Group, and as one of Ottawa’s Best Places to Work. And we’re just getting started!

THE ROLE

Solink is looking for a Finance Manager to own financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management processes. This role serves as a central point of coordination across Finance, Operations, R&D, and Product, partnering with leaders to align financial plans with strategic priorities and operational drivers.

The ideal candidate has a strong financial analysis or finance business partnering background, is energized by ambiguity and cross-functional complexity, and takes real pride and ownership in the accuracy and quality of their own work.

What You’ll Do Performance Analysis & Variance Reporting

- Own variance analysis versus budget and forecast, translating results into clear insight and recommended action for senior leadership — not just a reporting of the numbers

- Maintain and evolve financial models linking operational drivers (ARR, headcount, margin, cash) to financial outcomes

- Partner with department leaders to interpret performance trends and surface risks or opportunities before they become material

Executive & Board-Level Reporting

- Own the preparation of financial decks and narratives for the Board of Directors and the Risk & Audit Committee, including KPIs, trends, risks, and forward-looking analysis

- Present consolidated performance results and business updates to executive leadership, with direct exposure to the CFO/CEO

- Deliver clear, concise, decision-oriented financial storytelling tailored to a Board and executive audience

Finance Business Partnering

- Serve as a trusted finance business partner to functional leaders, providing insight, challenge, and support on key initiatives

- Support investment decisions, pricing changes, hiring plans, and operational trade-offs through data-driven analysis, and help leaders reach principled trade-offs that protect long-term value, not just short-term optics

- Build cross-functional relationships that raise financial literacy and ownership across the organization

- Proactively identify structural risks and opportunities before they're visible to others, escalating with well-supported recommendations

Management Reporting & Performance Analysis

- Own the monthly management reporting package: financial results, KPI dashboards, and executive commentary

- Own IFRS 15 revenue reporting, including the monthly CARR waterfall, ensuring accurate reconciliation between bookings, ARR, deferred revenue, recognized revenue, and other contractual movements that drive SaaS performance reporting

- Analyze performance drivers across revenue, cost structure, and margin, connecting financial results back to operational activity and long-term value drivers

Financial Reporting & Governance Support

- Own consistency between management reporting and statutory results across monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles

- Partner with Accounting on IFRS-related topics to ensure management reporting and Board materials reflect accounting reality

- Support preparation for Risk & Audit Committee discussions, providing forward-looking risk assessments and sensitivity analyses

Systems & Model Ownership

- Own the accuracy and integrity of your reporting models and tools within NetSuite and related systems

- Identify structural inefficiencies or risks in your own workstreams that aren't yet visible to others, and flag or address them proactively

- Contribute ideas for automation and standardization within your area, in partnership with your manager

AI-Enabled Ways of Working

- Apply AI tools within your work-streams in line with team best practices for capability, scalability, and risk

- Use human-and-AI workflows (e.g., in variance analysis, board deck preparation, or performance reporting) to expand your own capacity and improve quality

- Share feedback on which AI tools and approaches work well, to inform how the function evolves its use of AI

Accountability

- Take full ownership of your core deliverables and their downstream impact, escalating early when something is at risk

- When your work falls short, take responsibility, identify what happened, and apply the fix without needing to be asked

WHAT YOU BRING

Must-Have

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration

- 6–9 years of experience in financial reporting, analysis, or finance business partnering

- Advanced skills in Excel and Google Sheets (pivot tables, scenario modeling, automation)

- Demonstrated ability to build and own integrated financial models, not just maintain existing ones

- Strong analytical mindset with a track record of synthesizing complex data into business recommendations that influence executive decisions

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