Chief Financial Officer
OCAL Financial Inc. (TSX-V: OCAL) Vancouver, BC (500 - 885 Dunsmuir Street) | Full time, permanent | Primarily in office, with some remote flexibility $150,000 to $180,000 per year, plus stock options, extended health and dental, and four weeks of vacation
We just went public. Now we need someone to build the finance function properly.
OCAL Financial is an AI-native virtual car dealership and vehicle finance platform. We have operated since April 2021 on a simple inversion of how the industry works: traditional dealers start with the car and then try to make the financing fit. We start with the approval, the budget and the right lender, then go find the vehicle.
That one change removes almost everything expensive about a dealership. No showroom. No lot full of aging inventory. No sales floor. What we have instead is software we built ourselves: workflow orchestration, a lender-routing credit intelligence system, voice AI, and a central business intelligence layer. We are licensed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario is next, and we listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in July 2026.
We are small, we move quickly, and we are direct about where we are. Finance here is not a back office producing reports nobody reads. It is the function that has to carry a growing public company, and right now it needs to be built.
The Job
You will be the senior finance leader at OCAL. You own the numbers, the filings, the cash, and the systems that produce all three. You report to the CEO and present to the Board of Directors and the audit committee. You will have a controller and outside advisors supporting you, and you will still be hands on: writing the memo, closing the books, building the model, then standing up and defending it.
What You Will Own
- Monthly reporting that lands on time. A full package to the CEO and Board by the 15th: income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, AR, AP, and the operating KPIs that actually drive the business.
- Public company reporting. Quarterly and annual IFRS financial statements and MD&A, SEDAR+ filings, NI 52-109 certifications, material change reports, TSXV filings, and the annual audit.
- The Board relationship. Board packages, audit committee materials, and the ability to explain a variance to a room that includes capital markets professionals.
- Cash. Rolling forecasts, working capital, credit facilities, and cash visibility the CEO and the Board can act on.
- Deal-level economics. Vehicle inventory at the VIN level, landed cost, gross profit per unit, F&I product margins, chargeback and unwind reserves, and the revenue recognition judgments underneath all of it.
- Tax and government funding. Corporate tax, GST/HST and BC PST, and our SR&ED claim on the technology we build. If you know how the eligible Canadian public corporation changes affect SR&ED refundability for listed issuers, you will be useful here.
- Building the team. What the finance function looks like in three years is yours to decide.
The Mandate We Care Most About: Automate It
We are an AI company that sells cars. Our finance function should look like it, and today too much of it is manual. Fixing that is the single clearest reason this role exists.
We want someone who looks at a monthly close and asks which parts should never be touched by a person again. Someone who can design a chart of accounts so that reporting falls out of the ledger instead of being rebuilt in a spreadsheet every month, wire up integrations, build a real dashboard, and put a reconciliation control behind every automated feed so it cannot fail silently. You do not need to be a software engineer. You do need to refuse a manual process just because it is the one that already exists. We run on Google Workspace and QuickBooks Online, and we use AI tools daily and seriously.
What We Need
- CPA designation (Canadian, or a foreign designation with Canadian equivalency)
- Five or more years of accounting experience, including real public company reporting: IFRS financial statements, MD&A, and the quarterly and annual filing cycle. Audit firm experience with public company clients counts.
- You have been through a full external audit as the person answering the questions
- Strong systems and data skills. Advanced spreadsheets are the floor. Real comfort with integrations, automation tools and BI dashboards is what we are looking for.
- You can write. Board memos, technical accounting positions and MD&A are all writing jobs.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada, and able to be in our downtown Vancouver office regularly
What Helps, But Will Not Screen You Out
- Automotive retail, dealership, auto finance, equipment finance or lending experience
- A TSXV or CSE issuer, an IPO, an RTO or a qualifying transaction
- SR&ED, IRAP or other government grant and tax credit programs
- QuickBooks Online, Google Workspace, DealerTrack
- SQL, scripting, or having automated a finance function or implemented an ERP
We care more about what you have actually built than about the length of the resume. If you are a controller or a financial reporting manager ready for the title, apply. That is exactly who this ad is for.
What We Offer
- $150,000 to $180,000 per year, depending on experience
- Stock options under our TSX Venture 10% rolling plan, subject to Board approval and Exchange acceptance. A real ownership stake in a company at the beginning of its public life.
- Extended health, dental and vision, plus life insurance and long term disability
- Four weeks of vacation
- Officer appointment on Board approval and TSXV clearance, normally within the first weeks. You will sign the certifications, sit in the audit committee meeting, and speak to investors.
- An office you can get to. Dunsmuir Street is a short walk from Burrard and Granville stations, with flexibility to work remotely on the days that do not need a room.
- Room to grow with the company. We are licensed in two provinces and heading east. The finance function you build is the one that has to carry that.
How to Apply
Send your resume and a short note. Skip the cover letter template. Tell us one thing instead: the hardest accounting judgment you have had to defend to an auditor or a board, and how it went.
We review every application that answers that question. Shortlisted candidates meet the CEO and the Chair, and we move quickly.
OCAL hires on merit and does not discriminate on any ground protected by the BC Human Rights Code. If you need an accommodation at any point in the hiring process, tell us and we will arrange it.
Pay: $150,000.00-$180,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Stock options
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- Do you hold a CPA designation? (Yes / No / In progress)
- How many years have you prepared or audited IFRS financial statements for a Canadian public company? (0 / 1-2 / 3-5 / 5+)
- Have you personally been responsible for a SEDAR+ or EDGAR continuous disclosure filing? (Yes / No)
- Describe one finance or accounting process you automated. What did it look like before and after?
- Are you able to work from our downtown Vancouver office on a regular basis? (Yes / No)
Work Location: In person
