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The Opportunity
About Us:
Dash Hudson is a smarter way to market through photo and video. Our visual intelligence platform provides brands with the a one-stop solution to create, source, measure, and enhance the engagement of their photos and videos.
Dash Hudson works with the raddest, most discerning brands and publishers in the world.
Your Role:
As CFO, you will work closely with the cofounders (CEO and CTO) to deliver financial clarity that enables the company to confidently pull levers for rapid growth.
This role could be part-time or full-time depending on the individual.
About You:
Super organized. To the point of compulsion.
Attention to detail. You lose sleep over typos and bad formulas.
Ability to work heads down and maintain high productivity.
A love for metrics, and a deep knowledge of those particular to SAAS. You must know who David Skok is.
Ability to confidently work within and contribute to a startup evironment that moves at pace and to make rapid decisions with imperfect information.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
Investment / investor relations:
· Equity fundraising.
· Create briefing documents for approaching new prospective investors.
· Maintain strong, ongoing relations and communication with existing investors.
Lender relations:
· Own all lender relations.
· Identify and where appropriate access all available leverage sources.
· Maintain strong, ongoing relations and communication with existing lenders.
Financial planning and budgeting:
· Ensure maximum visibility regarding future revenues and cash levels (support CEO in sales forecasting process).
· Maintain rolling 12-24 month pro formas.
· Ensure management is regularly briefed on and understands budget expectations.
· Implement policies and controls over budget vs. actual performance.
Treasury:
· Define and oversee cash management and investment policy.
· Oversee cash controls.
Performance enhancement:
· Analyze individual / organization performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
· Identify track & report key metrics and performance indicators.
· Make recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance & organizational value.
Accounting & Reporting:
· Maintain all internal and external financial reporting to board, management and other stakeholders.
· Oversee all internal controls and procedures.
· Oversee all government reporting.
Board / stakeholders:
· Maintain strong, ongoing relations and communication with the board.
· Provide ongoing board committees with the tools, processes and information needed to conduct their affairs.
· Quarterly written industry briefings to give summary view of news on our customers, partners, industry and related M & A activity.
Taxation:
· Ensure compliance with all applicable Federal, provincial, state sales & income tax reporting requirements.
· Recommendations to improve SRED eligibility.
· Oversee SRED filing process.
Strategic planning:
· Support quarterly and annual strategic planning process.
· Corporate development: Provide framework and criteria for assessing non-organic growth opportunities (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships & alliances).
· Maintain database of potential transaction candidates.
· Complete (with management team) a revised business plan that can be shared with the investment community.
Sales:
· Support sales on a priority basis as needed. Could include contract support, ROI modelling, partnering discussions, etc.
Hiring:
· Oversee hiring process for all non-technical staff.
· Support creation of job descriptions for all positions.
· Benchmark compensation practices.
Professionals:
· Own auditor relationship.
Risk management:
· Define risk management practices & measures
· Review insurance coverage and all policies
What you'll need
Qualifications
The good stuff:
· MBA + CPA.
· 5+ years of experience, preferably in a high-growth SAAS company.
· Proven experience managing board relations and engaging external financial stakeholders.
We're looking for
Core Skills
A little bit about us
Dash Hudson
The only tool you need to outsmart social 📈
Dash Hudson is a social media management platform that equips brands with intelligence and speed to stay ahead of the curve. Through its sophisticated cross-channel insights and workflow tools, Dash Hudson enables brands to create content that entertains, engages and drives consistent business results. To discover how Dash Hudson is empowering brands to outsmart social, visit dashhudson.com.
At Dash Hudson, you will be given the opportunity to take risks, learn, and grow your career. You'll be joining a talented, hardworking team with leading policies and practices recognized as a top employer in Canada.
Are you interested?
Work With Us
You have the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to one of the fastest growing software companies in North America.
You get to work with teammates that are incredibly talented and care about one another.
You will work with individuals that are unabashed about their ability to be the best at what they do.
Together, we will continue to build a category leader.