Director of Finance

Job description

**Director of Finance** Group Finance — Multi-Entity, Multi-Currency — Remote, Philippines | | | | --- | --- | | **Reports to** | Chief Financial Officer | | **Direct reports** | Accounting Manager (Philippines), Senior Accountant (Philippines) | | **Works alongside** | Canada-based Controller, staff accountant and AP clerk — who report separately to the Canada Controller | | **Entities in scope** | Nine — three operating companies and six corporate/holding entities (Canada, United States, Barbados) | | **Location** | Remote — Philippines (home-based) | | **Working hours** | 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time (approx. 9:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m. PHT), Monday to Friday | | **Language** | Fluent English — written and spoken (mandatory) | | **Engagement** | Full-time, permanent, via Philippine Employer of Record or BPO partner | | **Status** | Draft v4 — prepared 19 August 2026 — for CFO review before posting | # **Position Summary** The Director of Finance owns the group reporting layer across all nine entities — consolidation, intercompany, foreign-currency translation, technical accounting, forecasting and audit — so that the CFO can concentrate on capital, tax structure, transactions and executive matters. Day-to-day transaction processing is owned by a separate Canada-based team; your accountability is the accuracy, timeliness and defensibility of what is reported on top of it. This is a build role, not a maintenance role. The Group’s reporting currently carries known open items — unreconciled intercompany balances across jurisdictions, a derived equity plug, no formal foreign-exchange policy, and inconsistent sign conventions between entity ledgers. You will be expected to close these out, put the supporting policies and controls in place, and hold them there. You will manage a team of two — an Accounting Manager and a Senior Accountant — and are accountable for their output, their development and the quality of what reaches the CFO. With a team this size relative to nine entities, you will remain hands-on: expect to prepare as well as review. You report directly to the Chief Financial Officer. **Read this next paragraph carefully before applying. The Canada-based Controller owns the traditional accounting cycle and reports to the CFO, not to you. You nonetheless own the group close calendar, the reporting standards, the technical accounting positions and every deliverable that depends on that team’s output. This role therefore requires you to run a process across a team you do not manage, twelve time zones from your own, using clear service standards, documented handoffs and early escalation rather than hierarchy. Candidates who have only operated with direct line authority over everyone who feeds their numbers will find this role difficult.** # **The Group and the Scope of the Role** The Group comprises nine legal entities operating across Canada, the United States and Barbados. The successful candidate supports all nine: - Three operating companies — Family Focus (community health and support services), HavenPoint Health (clinic and independent medical examination operations) and Prolexity (professional services). - Six corporate, holding and investment entities — comprising Canadian, U.S. and Barbados holding companies, a management services company and an investment/rental holding entity. The Group reports in Canadian dollars with material U.S. dollar and Barbados dollar activity, extensive intercompany and shareholder-loan balances, a shared-services cost pool allocated across entities, and a recurring group reporting package of eight standard schedules plus standalone entity packages that must agree to the consolidated result. This is a genuinely multi-entity, multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction environment. It is not a single-ledger bookkeeping job. ## **How the finance function is structured** Group finance operates as two teams reporting to the Chief Financial Officer: - A Canada-based team — Controller, staff accountant and accounts payable clerk — which owns the traditional accounting cycle: accounts payable and receivable, disbursements, payroll administration, general-ledger posting, and Canadian statutory compliance, through to an entity-level trial balance. The Controller reports directly to the CFO. - A Philippines-based team — Director of Finance, Accounting Manager and Senior Accountant — which owns everything built on top of those ledgers: group close and consolidation, intercompany reconciliation, foreign-currency translation, the shared-services allocation, group and entity reporting, budgeting and forecasting and technical accounting. The two teams are interdependent. The Philippines team relies on the Canadian team for timely, accurate source data; the Canadian team relies on the Philippines team for the consolidation, reporting, analysis and technical accounting built on top of it. Working effectively across that boundary — across a twelve-hour time difference, and without a shared reporting line below the CFO — is a core requirement of every role on this team, not an incidental one. The Philippines team holds full general-ledger access across all nine entities and the authority to post adjusting, reclassifying and consolidation entries. Ownership of the transaction cycle sits in Canada; responsibility for the accuracy of the reported result sits in the Philippines. # **Key Responsibilities** ## **Financial reporting and consolidation** - Own the monthly close calendar across all nine entities and deliver a hard close within an agreed number of business days. - Own the consolidation, including intercompany eliminations, foreign-currency translation and the shared-services allocation, and be able to defend every material balance. - Own the recurring group reporting suite: the group month-end package; budget versus actual and cash-burn reporting; the 13-week cash forecast; trending statements by entity; payroll analysis; and the owner-draw and professional-fees analyses. - Ensure each standalone entity package agrees to the consolidated result without manual bridging, and that missing entities or missing source data are flagged explicitly on every reporting cycle rather than quietly estimated. ## **Intercompany, shareholder and balance-sheet integrity** - Own the reconciliation of all intercompany due to/from accounts across the Canadian, U.S. and Barbados entities, including the resolution of legacy differences and sign-convention errors. - Maintain and substantiate shareholder loan accounts, owner draws and related-party balances, with a clear audit trail for each movement. - Drive equity to a substantiated position rather than a derived plug, and maintain a documented balance-sheet substantiation file for every entity. ## **Planning, forecasting and analysis** - Own the annual budget process and the rolling forecast across all entities, including driver-based operating forecasts and the entity-level KPI models. - Own the 13-week cash forecast and the Group liquidity view, and escalate funding requirements to the CFO with lead time, not at the point of failure. - Deliver variance analysis with a stated cause and a recommended action, not a table of differences. - Track performance against the Group’s EBITDA-margin improvement targets by entity and report progress monthly. ## **Leadership** - Manage, review and develop the Accounting Manager and the Senior Accountant; set objectives, run one-to-ones and manage performance directly. - Partner with the Canadian Controller as an equal on delivery. Where source data is late, incomplete or inconsistent, raise it early, in writing, with the specific impact on the close — and escalate to the CFO promptly rather than absorbing the delay and reporting late. - Review before the CFO reviews. Work that reaches the CFO should be finished work. - Deputise for the CFO on operational finance matters and in dealings with operating-company management. # **Required Qualifications** - Philippine CPA, or an equivalent professional designation (CPA, ACCA) in good standing. - Minimum ten years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including at least four years managing a team. - Demonstrated ownership of a multi-entity consolidation with intercompany eliminations and foreign-currency translation. This is the single most important screen for this role. - Direct experience reporting to or working alongside a CFO or Financial Controller in a North American reporting environment. - Demonstrated experience delivering to deadline in a split or distributed finance function, dependent on colleagues in another location or another reporting line. Be prepared to describe a specific example at interview. - Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP or Canadian ASPE/IFRS, and the confidence to research and take a position on a technical treatment. - Advanced Excel — complex model construction, large data sets, links across workbooks, and the discipline to build models that another person can audit. - Experience preparing audit workpapers and dealing directly with external auditors. - Fluent written and spoken English (C1 or above). - Demonstrated history of working a permanent U.S. Eastern Time schedule. # **Preferred** - Exposure to Canadian tax and payroll compliance (GST/HST, T2, source deductions) and/or U.S. and offshore structures. - Experience in healthcare, clinical, community-services or professional-services businesses. - QuickBooks Online at an administrator level across multiple company files; experience migrating or consolidating ledgers. - Prior experience in a company