Job Description:

Compensation: The expected salary range for this role is between $120,000 and $135,000, depending on experience and qualifications.

Reason for Opening: Backfill position

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Position: Senior Strategic Finance Manager

Based in the Jonas Head Office in Markham, ON, the Senior Strategic Finance Manager reports directly to the PYXiS VP Finance, with a dotted-line relationship to the Business Group Leader. This is a highly visible, portfolio-facing role that combines hands-on financial leadership with strategic advisory responsibilities. The Senior Strategic Finance Manager serves as the primary finance partner for a defined subset of PYXiS operating businesses, working closely with executive leadership to provide financial insight, challenge, and guidance. The role supports financial performance, operational efficiency, capital allocation, and acquisition-related activity across this group of businesses. Success in this role requires strong judgment, comfort operating in dynamic environments, and a bias toward practical, value-creating outcomes.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Accounting, Financial planning and reporting:

• Oversee and support Finance Analysts to ensure accurate, timely month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial reporting for an assigned group of operating companies.
• Ensure the integrity of financial transactions, balance sheet reconciliations, and monthly accounting close processes in accordance with IFRS.
• Analyze and communicate financial results to senior leadership, providing clear insight into performance drivers, risks, and emerging trends.
• Support and challenge business leaders' forecasts and plans as part of the quarterly forecasting and planning process.
• Investigate variances versus plan and forecast, delivering actionable analysis and recommending corrective actions where required.
• Monitor revenue, margins, and P&L performance across the assigned businesses, supporting senior management with forward-looking analysis and decision support.
• Ensure full compliance with internal controls, corporate requirements, and external audit requests.

Strategic Finance & Operational Improvement:

• Partner with the Business Group Leader and senior leadership teams to support strategic decision-making, capital allocation, M&A activity, and capital structure optimization for a defined subset of PYXiS businesses.
• Act as an objective thought partner to operating leaders, proactively bringing a point of view, challenging assumptions, and improving decision quality.
• Work directly with executive teams across multiple operating companies, providing financial insight, operational guidance, and performance transparency.
• Evaluate operational systems, processes, and staffing models to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Deliver clear, practical recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness, policies, and internal processes within the assigned businesses.
• Design and implement scalable, repeatable processes that drive sustainable improvements in business process efficiency.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen working capital management, cash discipline, and overall financial rigor across the supported group of companies.

Acquisition & Integration Support:

• Lead the financial integration of newly acquired businesses within the assigned group, ensuring alignment with PYXiS and Jonas financial standards and investment objectives.
• Provide financial due diligence support for acquisition opportunities in partnership with the central M&A execution team
• Assist with purchase price accounting and post-close financial setup for new acquisitions in accordance with IFRS.
• Prepare and manage earn-out calculations and reporting as defined in acquisition agreements.

People Leadership & Culture:

• Coach, mentor, and develop finance team members through regular feedback, performance reviews, and development planning.
• Build bench strength within the finance function to support growth and increasing complexity across the assigned businesses.
• Uphold and reinforce a culture of ethical behavior, accountability, and high professional standards.
• Ensure personal and team compliance with company policies, HR practices, and internal governance requirements.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Commerce, or a related field.
• CPA designation with strong commercial judgment and financial analysis capability.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS, including application in complex or multi-entity environments.
• Proven experience in a management-level finance role within a complex business environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, influence, and develop finance professionals.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, and performance management.
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial modeling, data analysis, and reconciliation.
• Ability to assess commercial risk and understand the accounting implications of contractual terms.

Preferred

• Exposure to mergers and acquisitions, including post-acquisition integration activities.
• Experience in the software or technology sector.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations and/or Vena Solutions FP&A software. Proven experience at a management level in a business or finance environment.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and teamwork skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders through effective communication, logical reasoning, and presentation of alternatives
• Solid business judgment capable of driving the organization to the right results with a focused, pragmatic approach
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines in a fast-paced high-growth environment
• Self-motivated with high energy levels, able to instigate and manage change and growth
• High degree of personal initiative and the ability to interact with non-financial managers and employees at all levels
• Flexibility and recognizes the need to accommodate and support various time zones
• Occasional travel as required to support a global company setting and remote working
• A strong desire to learn and grow in support of the expansion of PYXiS

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Business Unit:
Corporate - Fitness
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
37.5
Number of Openings Available:
1
Worker Type:
Regular