VP Finance

🕒 February 18

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Canals

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • Distribution

Canals is an AI-driven tool designed to enhance efficiency in distribution and order processing for sales, accounting, and procurement teams. It automates tasks like sales order entry and invoice processing, transforming customer emails into actionable quotes and orders without the need for templates. Canals is built specifically for various distribution verticals including electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and industrial sectors, helping teams save time and increase accuracy in their workflows. As users engage with the platform, the AI continues to improve its performance and adapt to specific business needs, ensuring better service for customers and vendors alike.

📋 Description

• Own the company’s financial model end-to-end. • Build, maintain, and evolve a clear forward-looking model that enables scenario planning, hiring projections, profitability analysis, and capital allocation decisions. • Oversee accounting, taxes, and books and records. • Partner with external firms where appropriate, but maintain accountability for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness. • Lead FP&A and strategic planning. • Translate financial data into insight. Identify trends, risks, and opportunities. Bring clear recommendations — not just numbers. • Partner closely with go-to-market leadership. • Support sales compensation planning, revenue forecasting, invoicing processes, collections, and customer-facing financial workflows. • Own financial reporting and board preparation. • Prepare quarterly financials and present results clearly and confidently to leadership and the board. • Improve operational finance systems and processes. • Ensure we’re using the right tools and workflows for a fast-growing SaaS company. Leverage automation and AI where appropriate to operate lean without sacrificing rigor. • Manage working capital and cash discipline. • Monitor burn, profitability, collections, and vendor payments with precision. • Bring sound judgment in scrappy environments. • Know when something materially matters — and when it doesn’t.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in early-stage startup environments (pre-Series B or into Series B strongly preferred). • Must have worked closely with a founder CEO. • Strong financial modeling skills. You should be able to build and defend a sophisticated operating model without relying on others. • Experience overseeing accounting, taxes, and books — even if execution is outsourced. • Comfort operating as a lean finance function (e.g., VP + one additional team member or external support). • Experience partnering with revenue organizations (sales comp, forecasting, invoicing, collections). • Ability to present financial results clearly to executive leadership and board-level audiences. • High ownership mindset. You don’t wait to be told what to fix. • Comfort with ambiguity, scrappiness, and imperfect information. • Strong judgment — you know which risks require rigor and which don’t. • Experience in SaaS is preferred. Familiarity with SaaS metrics (e.g., retention, gross margin, Rule of 40) is a plus but not mandatory if you’re sharp and adaptable. • Experience with M&A is a nice-to-have, not required. • Comfort exploring how AI and automation can improve finance and accounting efficiency.

🏖️ Benefits

• We're profitable: stability without the chaos of venture pivots. • Real-world impact: your work improves global supply chains, saving customers time and reducing waste. • Strong engineering culture: we invest in quality and documentation to keep moving fast sustainably. • Culture of ownership: moving fast while putting quality first • Remote-first, flexible work environment across North and South America. • Stellar product-market fit with tons of customer love • All star team with diverse backgrounds to collaborate with and learn from