Strategic Finance Business Partner – Product & Engineering

🕒 May 13

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D2L

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1999

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

💰 $85M Series B on 2014-08

Education • SaaS

D2L is a company committed to transforming the future of education and work through high-quality learning solutions. Their platform, D2L Brightspace, offers personalized, scalable learning opportunities tailored for various sectors, including K-12 education, higher education, business, training organizations, and government. D2L provides a comprehensive learning management system that incorporates AI-driven tools to enhance teaching and learning experiences. The company emphasizes accessibility and inclusivity, ensuring that their solutions meet diverse learner needs, and supports their users with dedicated customer and learning services.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary Finance Business Partner to the Product and Engineering organizations, directly supporting annual planning, quarterly forecasts, and decision support • Drive the R&D and cloud hosting (COGS) annual budget process, partnering cross-functionally to integrate bottom-up departmental inputs into an integrated financial plan • Conduct monthly analysis of cost variances and expenditure trends to uncover root causes, translating findings into recommendations that optimize business performance • Proactively manage the achievement of business unit results, including identification and mitigation of risks and driving opportunities • Build and systematize disaggregated P&L reporting at the product level, surfacing visibility into unit economics, gross margin, and investment efficiency • Own the financial framework for Product Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), translating product-level performance into roadmap and resource planning decisions • Implement modern planning system dashboards (Pigment) to surface forward-looking insights across the Product and Engineering organizations • Bring a builder's mindset to applying AI in finance – identifying tools and workflows that improve decision velocity, streamline the forecast process, and redirect time toward deeper business partnership

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of well-rounded finance experience, including FP&A or finance/operations roles • Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, superior attention to detail and quick learner • Forward-thinking mindset, curiosity, and the ability to simplify complexity into easily understood financial models and narratives • Experience within a SaaS business model and global company is considered a strong asset • Superior communication, including in verbal presentations and written business memos • Strong relationship, collaboration, and influence capabilities, including at the senior leadership stakeholder level • Process-oriented, with experience building scalable processes and leveraging automation • Strong systems aptitude and technical proficiency in advanced planning systems (Pigment, Adaptive); experience with AI/ML applications considered a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Impactful work transforming the way the world learns • Flexible work arrangements • Learning and Growth opportunities • Tuition reimbursement of up to $4,000 CAD for continuing education through our SkillsWave Program • 2 Paid Days off for SkillsWave-related activities like exams or final assignments • Employee wellbeing (Access to mental health services, EFAP program, financial planning and more) • Retirement planning • 2 Paid Volunteer Days • Competitive Benefits Package • Home Internet Reimbursements • Employee Referral Program • Wellness Reimbursement • Employee Recognition • Social Events • Dog Friendly Offices Spaces at our HQ in Kitchener, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Melbourne offices.