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Director, Finance & Strategy
Description
At Chexy, we’re reshaping the way money moves - making payments smarter, faster, and more rewarding. We started by being the first in Canada to let people pay their biggest and most painful bills with credit cards and earn rewards on money they had to spend anyway. Now, we’re on a much bigger mission: to build a super app that acts as your co-pilot for all your money—helping you get more value from every dollar you spend.
As a high-growth fintech startup, we’re at the forefront of payments innovation, and we’re looking for hungry, ambitious people to help us scale. If you thrive in a fast-moving, high-energy environment and want to be part of something big, we’d love to work with you.
About the Role
We're looking for a Strategic Finance Director to serve as a key partner to the CEO. This role owns Chexy's financial narrative — the models, forecasts, and reporting that drive our most important decisions, investor relationships, and lending partnerships. But it's not a back-office finance job. You'll be deeply embedded in strategy: evaluating new business lines, building the analytical case for (or against) major bets, and ensuring leadership has the numbers they need to move fast and confidently.
What You'll Own
Financial operations & reporting
You'll own our forecasting, month-end metrics analysis, and all external financial reporting — investor updates, debt lender reporting, and grant reporting. Today, much of this is manual. Your first mandate is to build the reporting infrastructure and automate the recurring cadence so that it runs reliably with minimal ongoing effort. Over time, as automation takes hold, the reporting piece shrinks from a major time commitment to an oversight function — freeing you to spend more of your time on strategic analysis and decision support.
Investor & lender relationships
You'll be the person behind the numbers our investors and lending partners see. That means building and maintaining the models, preparing board materials, owning the data room, and being ready to go deep on any question about our unit economics, cohort performance, or cash position. As we approach our next raise, you'll be instrumental in shaping the fundraising narrative.
Strategic analysis & decision support
When the CEO is deciding whether to pursue a new partnership, expand into B2B, or double down on a growth channel, you'll be the one building the business case. That means financial modeling, competitive research, scenario analysis, and a clear recommendation. You won't just present options — you'll have a point of view.
Partner presentations & business cases
You'll build the materials that help Chexy win — partner pitch decks, business cases for new relationships, and financial summaries for external stakeholders. This requires strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex financial data into a compelling story.
Research & new initiatives
The CEO has a running list of ideas and hypotheses. You'll be the person who picks them up, does the diligence, and comes back with a structured perspective on whether they're worth pursuing and what it would take.
What We Are Looking For
- 4-7 years of experience across investment banking, management consulting, growth equity, venture capital, or strategic finance at a high-growth startup (ideally fintech or payments)
- Exceptional financial modeling skills — you can build a cohort LTV model, a cash flow forecast, or a scenario analysis from scratch without templates
- Strong written and verbal communication — you'll be producing investor-facing and partner-facing materials regularly
- A systems-building mindset — you're not just comfortable doing manual reporting, you're wired to ask "how do I make sure I never have to do this manually again?" and then build that solution
- Comfort with ambiguity and context-switching — on any given day you might go from a lender report to a competitive deep-dive to a pricing analysis
- Intellectual curiosity about how a rent payments fintech actually works economically, and the drive to understand every lever in the business
Nice-to-haves
- Experience at a Series A–C fintech or payments company
- Familiarity with debt financing, credit facilities, or lending partnerships
- Experience preparing materials for institutional investors or board meetings
- Exposure to Canadian fintech regulatory or compliance landscape
What matters most
- You care about output over optics. You'd rather build something useful than something impressive-looking.
- You have strong judgment about what matters and what doesn't, and you're not afraid to tell the CEO when an idea doesn't pencil out.
- You're energized by the idea of being the analytical backbone of a fast-moving company, not by managing a large team.
- No task is beneath you. If the month-end close needs manual cleanup, you do it.