Director of Finance
Full-Time
Toronto, Ontario
Salary range: $150,000 - $180,000 CAD per year
At NS/TX, our mission is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable food system. By developing purpose-built production technologies, we are creating the next generation of meat and seafood alternatives with better taste, texture, price and nutritional profiles, designed to appeal to the average consumer.
ABOUT THE JOB
Your goal is to help mature our financial operations into a venture-scale institution with the fiscal discipline, reporting accuracy, and strategic insights needed to scale.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
Financial Reporting & Compliance
- Book Closing: Own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing process including reconciliation.
- Audit Readiness: Establish "clean" books. You are responsible for making the due diligence process for investors as seamless as possible.
- Tax & Regulatory: With support from 3rd party partners, manage R&D tax credit claims, EOY taxes, sales tax, and local compliance.
- Monthly Budgets: Approve and continuously audit & adjust department budgets to stay on budget.
General Business Operations & Treasury
- Cash flow management
- Cost accounting
- Support sales tracking, invoicing, procurement
- Ensure financial systems are well maintained (Quickbooks, Float)
- Support sales with pricing negotiations and new customer journey.
Strategic FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
- Burn & Runway: Maintain a real-time view of cash runway and burn rate.
- The Model: Own the 1, 3 & 10-year financial models. Translate the vision into headcount plans, projections, and departmental budgets.
- Variance Analysis: Track "Actuals vs. Budget" monthly and explain the why behind the numbers to the leadership team.
Fundraising & Grants
- Grant Management: Submit monthly grant claims and supporting documentation
- Fundraising Support: Support all financial documentation for data rooms. Build the financial slides for pitch decks. Answer technical questions from VC associates during due diligence.
- Board Reporting: Draft the financial section of the monthly or quarterly Board deck.
Scaling Operations
- Unit Economics: Work with Sales/Marketing to refine the cost of products to align with market trends
WHAT YOU BRING
- 5-7 years experience in a fast paced environment
- Experience in manufacturing and/or food and beverage, cost accounting
- CPA preferred but not a requirement
- Mastery of Google Drive and Quickbooks
- Experience with finance automation tools i.e. Notion and Float
- An obsession with continuous improvement and finding efficiencies
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Experience using AI-based tools
We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture as we know that diverse teams build better products and generate better ideas. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. If you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected].
Pay: $150,000.00-$180,000.00 per year
Application question(s):
- This position requires working on-site at our Toronto facility five days per week. Please confirm that you are comfortable with this requirement and able to commute reliably to the workplace.
- The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $180,000 per year. Please confirm your salary expectations.
- Please describe your finance leadership experience in a fast-paced start-up or scale-up environment, including the size and stage of the organizations you supported.
- Please describe your experience owning monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing processes, maintaining audit-ready financial records, and managing tax or regulatory compliance.
- Please describe your experience in manufacturing and/or the food and beverage industry, particularly with cost accounting, product costing, and unit economics.
- Please describe your experience with financial planning and analysis, including cash-flow management, burn rate, runway, financial modelling, budgeting, and variance analysis.
- Please describe your experience supporting fundraising, investor due diligence, grant claims, and Board reporting. Which financial systems, automation platforms, and AI-based tools have you used, including QuickBooks, Float, or similar tools?
Work Location: In person
