Financial Controller

Botpress
Montreal
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Automation mindset","Detail-oriented","Leadership","Deadline management","Comfort with ambiguity"]

Own the month-end and year-end close and lead end-to-end accounting operations, including revenue recognition, AP/AR, payroll, and reconciliations. Build budgets, forecasts, and cash flow models, and prepare board and investor reporting with key SaaS metrics such as ARR, NRR, CAC, and burn multiple. Automate finance processes using AI, run audits and compliance, and design scalable controls and financial systems while mentoring a small finance team.

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Botpress
Botpress
5 days ago

Financial Controller

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Job Summary

Own the month-end and year-end close and lead end-to-end accounting operations, including revenue recognition, AP/AR, payroll, and reconciliations. Build budgets, forecasts, and cash flow models, and prepare board and investor reporting with key SaaS metrics such as ARR, NRR, CAC, and burn multiple. Automate finance processes using AI, run audits and compliance, and design scalable controls and financial systems while mentoring a small finance team.
Location: Montreal
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the month-end and year-end close and deliver accurate, timely financial statements
  • •Manage day-to-day accounting operations, including revenue recognition, AP/AR, payroll, and reconciliations
  • •Automate and streamline finance operations, leveraging AI tools to improve rigor and efficiency
  • •Lead, mentor, and develop a small finance team (1–2 direct reports) to ensure high-quality output
  • •Lead annual audits, ensure compliance, and build budgets, forecasts, cash flow models, and board/investor reporting

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionTravel AllowanceLife InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveLearning Budget

Key Requirements

  • •CPA designation
  • •5+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including 3+ years in a controller or senior accounting leadership role
  • •High-growth SaaS or startup experience with fluency in SaaS revenue recognition and metrics
  • •Hands-on FP&A experience including budgeting, forecasting, and board-level reporting
  • •Track record of building or upgrading financial systems, processes, and controls
Experience:5+ yearsSaaSStartupHigh-growth
Skills:Automation mindsetDetail-orientedLeadershipDeadline managementComfort with ambiguity
Certifications:CPA

Company Brief

Botpress
Develops an open-source conversational AI platform for building, deploying, and managing chatbots and virtual assistants. Combines modular tooling, natural language understanding, and developer-friendly frameworks for enterprise and developer use cases.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Montréal, Canada
Founded: 2016
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