Controller

Posted 9 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Toronto, ON
Remote
3-5 Years Experience
Database • Analytics
The Role
The Controller at Cinchy is responsible for overseeing financial management, ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements, and providing strategic financial insights to support the company's growth. This role requires strong leadership, accounting expertise, and attention to detail.
Summary Generated by Built In

Cinchy is the enterprise data collaboration platform that makes it simple and secure for business teams, legacy systems, SaaS apps, and AI to collaborate on data in real-time.


Our customers use Data Collaboration to accelerate digital transformation projects and reduce the time and cost to build applications by more than 50%. Data Collaboration decreases IT project delivery risks, establishes guaranteed data access controls, and enables effortless collaboration on quality data across an organizations’ people and systems.


Welcome to the age of data co-production, where collaboration replaces integration.


We are a growing company of builders, innovators, collaborators that believe freeing your data will empower your teams to build the future and unlock their potential.



We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Controller to join our finance team. The Controller will be responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting, compliance with regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions, smooth financial and treasury operations, adequately controlled financial processes, and providing strategic financial insights to support Cinchy’s growth. This role requires a detail-obsessed and proactive individual with strong leadership capabilities and a deep understanding of accounting and tax principles.

What you will be doing:

  • Oversee various aspects of financial management, including regulatory and financial reporting, treasury management, financial operations, internal controls, sales tax compliance, cross border transactions, plus tax credits and compliance processes. 
  • Define how accounting standards and interpretations can be implemented into day to day processes to serve timely and accurate preparation of financial statements.
  • Manage all financial operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL, outsourced payroll, Treasury Management, and Revenue Recognition.
  • Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
  • Optimize the design of internal controls and operationalize them in Cinchy.
  • Assist and serve as coverage to the Director of Strategic Finance in preparation of the budget, financial forecasts, operational and investor reporting.
  • Support month-end, quarter end, and year-end close processes for the US and Canadian Entities. Manage audits, tax returns, and other related processes. 
  • Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings. Assist with obtaining relevant tax credits in all jurisdictions.
  • Provide strategic financial insights and recommendations to the executive team to support decision-making.

What you bring - Don’t worry if you don’t have all these things, we believe in investing in personal growth and can coach you to be successful:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or CMA preferred.
  • Proven working experience as a Controller or similar role, preferably in a tech or SaaS company.
  • Knowledge of cross border tax issues (an asset), SRED, and managing audits
  • Understands the power of process documentation to drive clarity and efficiency
  • Extremely detail oriented and highly invested in preventing reporting and other errors.
  • Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
  • Experience with creating financial statements and Board/Investor level analysis/summaries.
  • Excel/sheets master with additional skills using databases to serve advanced and highly efficient reporting.
  • Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year-end close process.
  • Strong analytical skills; attention to detail is your superpower.
  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Key Results (things we will measure success):

As the new Controller for Cinchy, your initial 30/60/90-day plan should focus on understanding the company culture, team dynamics, and existing systems and processes while building relationships with key stakeholders.


30 days: 

Familiarize yourself with your team, Cinchy's mission, values, and strategic objectives.

Conduct a comprehensive assessment of current learning and training collateral, processes, and technologies. Take over month end, quarter end reporting processes. Own day to day financial operations and treasury.



60 Days: Prepare for our year end processes (Audit, Tax Returns, SRED, etc). Take over cross border processes and sales tax management.

90 Days: Own all financial, tax and treasury processes. Cross train to support the Director of Strategic Finance on items such as PI reporting, financial modeling, and building process automations in Cinchy.


Our Hiring Process:

Talent Screen: You will initially meet (online) with someone from our Talent team. (30 minutes)

Technical Fit: Technical review or exercise demonstrating your knowledge and experience. (60-90 minutes)

Team Fit: We then have a values fit interview with other members of Cinchy (60 minutes)


If all goes well, and you feel that Cinchy is the place you want to build your career, we'll ask for references and make an offer.


Who you will be meeting:

Joseph Kim - Head of Recruitment

Chaoran Wang - Head of Strategic Finance

And other members of the Cinchy team.



Click here for Our Values


We encourage applications from all qualified candidates around the world, including indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Diversity breeds excellence.


If you need any accommodation for the interview process please let us know.


Phishing Scam Alert:


It has come to our attention that scammers are using Cinchy job postings to phish for personal information.


Our team will not ask you for your personal details, in an interview or online form, like date of birth or marital status.


Here’s how you can avoid being scammed:

-Our interview process includes a detailed initial screen, a technical evaluation, and a team fit interview with the hiring manager.

-We never make job offers without meeting you first.

-We will never ask for your date of birth at any stage of the interview or offer process.

-Please be sure you applied to a job from a link on our Career's page: https://cinchy.com/careers

Top Skills

Excel
The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
74 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

Cinchy is the world's leading Enterprise Data Collaboration platform. Using data mesh principles, Cinchy liberates data from application silos and transforms it into a network of federated data products. Cinchy makes it simple and secure for teams, systems, and AI to “co-produce” data in real-time.

Cinchy eradicates the time-consuming and error-prone processes associated with coordinating and merging changes across multiple teams and systems, steadily increasing efficiencies and 50%+ time and cost savings compared to traditional approaches, including APIs, ETLs, and spreadsheets.

Our customers include tier-1 global banks, credit unions, community banks, asset managers, major retailers, higher education, manufacturing, commercial real estate, and more. They use Cinchy to accelerate their critical transformational projects, including:

- Co-production of data between systems
- Federated data governance & mastering
- AI/ML/LLM operationalization (intelligent apps)
- Extending data products/mesh beyond analytics
- Elimination of spreadsheets from business-critical processes
- Legacy system modernization / SaaS augmentation
- Compliance and attestation lineage and workflows
- 360 “everything” (digital twin’ for customer, employee, etc.)
- SaaS license reduction

Request a demo with one of our data collaboration experts to explore how Cinchy can help your organization eliminate copy-based data integration, establish meaningful data governance, and initiate a cycle of simplification, collaboration, and ever-increasing efficiency.

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