Vp of Finance

Acuity Insights is a Canadian EdTech product and research company in a growth position.

We have a clear vision and plan for the future, have a well-established product-market fit in healthcare education, invest time in product innovation, and are on a path to expansion in new vertical markets.

Right now, we seek a VP of Finance to build and evolve our finance function for growth & agility and to drive transformative change with insights, enabling us to scale our impact on higher education and future professionals.

In addition to owning the interpretation and implications of our numbers, focus areas are budgeting and forecasting, financial modelling, capital allocation, and optimizing performance metrics & measurement systems.

It's an opportunity best suited to a well-rounded SaaS finance leader with a disciplined approach who has helped build and witnessed the success of a finance operation and FP&A function in scaling tech companies.

Opportunity & Impact
Joining Acuity Insights provides the opportunity to be part of our mission to create a world served by exceptional professionals. We help higher education institutions see the potential others miss, supporting them in getting exceptional outcomes with a sharper, holistic view of applicants, students and programs so that they can graduate more doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers, future business leaders and other professionals who bring social, emotional and cultural competency into their work.

As our VP of Finance, you'll join a small, lean Finance team, leading the function and owning top-line financial KPIs. You get to build your team structure and bring on a team member to oversee and manage accounting operations. It's a chance to establish Acuity Insight's financial framework, be hands-on with evolving and optimizing current reporting systems like forecasting, budgeting, cash flow management, and metrics tracking, and establish processes where you find it's lacking to create clearer visibility and control of cost, cash and revenue.

As a valued executive leadership team member, you'll be a thought partner to other Execs and a collaborator whose viewpoints and ideas help shape company strategy. You'll provide actionable insights, financial analysis & options that inform business decisions, like where to allocate capital and when to pivot if an investment is not yielding the desired outcome.

Leveraging your versatility, agility and broader strategic thinking, you'll work alongside the CEO to help develop and execute fundraising and acquisition strategies. You'll also partner with teams, functional leaders, and contributors at all levels, bringing your empathy and point of view to the conversations and collaborations and challenging us to be more effective. For example, you'll work with the People team on compensation, Revenue on sales forecasting, Product on pricing, Strategy on emerging markets, and Operations on optimizing workflows.

Your success as our VP of Finance will strengthen our company's financial health and position. Your work as part of the Executive team will lead to our sustainable, ethical, and responsible growth. Your lived experiences and strategic and empathetic leadership will help our company navigate the challenges of scale, growth and change, turning Finance into a growth driver that unlocks our business's potential.
- The VP of Finance role is a full-time remote-first position requiring eligibility to work in Canada. It reports to our CEO, _Rich Emrich_. _

To thrive in the role, you:

- Bring a broad range of financial skills & knowledge and professional history of effectively leading and managing financial matters in a SaaS company, covering FP&A, accounting principles, budgeting & forecasting, risk management, analyzing complex financial data, identifying trends, and providing insights that support decision-making and drive business growth.
- Have first-hand experience with the challenges of taking a SaaS company from startup to scaleup, like growing a team from 100 to 250 people, solving flat growth, raising capital and reaching profitability.
- Come with an understanding of the economics and metrics that impact the potential of a scaling SaaS business so you can zero in on financial issues that stand in the way of growth.
- Have led the finance and related functions like operations for a scaleup stage company through rapid organic and inorganic growth, fundraising in growth capital, private equity, and/or public markets.
- Are an ethical financial and executive leader who understands the human side of business and finance, leads with transparency, and recognizes and values people at all levels.

To thrive at Acuity Insights, you are:

- **Caring** toward people. You show up, take time to listen and understand, encourage and support, and don't shy away from providing feedback and mentoring and teaching others to help them grow.
- **Curious** by nature and open to possibilities. You like to explore, ask questions, expe