Chief Executive Officer - Toronto, Canada - Kollross & Company

Description

Kollross & Company is a small firm that provides CFO consulting expertise needed by technology start-ups and scale-ups to most successfully grow their business.

The Company focuses on important strategic, financial and operational imperatives for its clients, and is looking for a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to oversee all activities.

As the CEO of Kollross & Company, you will build and lead a consulting firm that helps growing technology businesses with fundraising, financial planning and managing growth, leadership team staffing and development, mergers and acquisitions, as well as handling a variety of operational challenges.

Target clients are software and platform technology businesses with revenue of at least $15 million, 100 to 300 team members, two to four rounds of venture capital funding, and product-market fit.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a CFO and Vice President of Finance across at least three venturebacked technology companies (mandatory, no exceptions)
• Financial leadership roles at multiple startups that grew rapidly to more than $100 million in revenue
• Prior CFO roles with broad management responsibilities beyond finance and accounting, including human resources, legal, corporate development, and other operational areas
• Must have previously built a CFO consulting business for startups in North America
• Managed venture capital fundraising rounds totaling at least $50 million
• Expert level of financial planning and resource allocation skills for startups
• Successful history of working with technology CEOs to build leadership teams
• Experience leading M&A activities and equity offerings for technology startups, including leading transactions totaling $500 million or higher
• Proven track record working across all functional areas to solve business and operational problems
• History of acting as a trusted partner to startup CEOs and boards, and to mentor and develop client finance and operations leaders
• Experience across a variety of technology verticals, with a focus on SaaS software, data and AI, marketing technology, financial technology, and consumer platforms
• Minimum education credentials are a masters degree in business administration and a quantitative undergraduate degree such as economics/finance/engineering

Responsibilities:

• Develop and establish Company objectives, and approve all policies and programs
• Plan, organize, direct, control, and evaluate the operations of the organization in relation to established objectives
• Determine the Company's mission and strategic direction as conveyed through policies and documented objectives
• Provide management of human and financial resources, authorize and organize departments and associated staff positions
• Allocate Company resources to implement programs and policies
• Establish financial and administrative controls, formulate and approve all marketing activities, and approve overall personnel hiring planning
• Represent the Company or delegate representatives to act on behalf of the Company in all official functions

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications. The CEO will be expected to perform additional duties as required by the organization.


Salary:
$101,244.00 per year


Benefits:

• Paid time off

Application question(s):

• Have you worked at multiple startup companies that grew to at least $100 million in revenue?
• Have you previously built a consulting business for startups in North America?
• Have you had CFO and VP of Finance roles at at least three venture backed technology companies?
• Have you managed venture capital fundraising rounds totaling at least $50 million?
• Do you have experience across a variety of technology verticals including SaaS software, data and AI, marketing technology, financial technology, and consumer platforms?

Education:

• Master's Degree (required)

Experience:

• CFO and VP of Finance at venture backed technology company: 10 years (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Ability to Commute:

• Toronto, ON (required)

Work Location:
In person