Director, Strategic Finance
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Director Strategic Finance
(In-person Toronto reports to the CFO)
About Clutch
Were on a mission to reinvent the way people buy sell and own cars.
Clutch is Canadas largest online used car retailer delivering a seamless hassle-free car buying and selling experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home get the right one delivered to their door and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee and thats just the beginning.
Named two years in a row to the Globe & Mails list of the Top Growing Companies in Canada and also awarded spots on Deloittes Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 lists were looking to add curious hard-working and driven individuals to our growing team.
Headquartered in Toronto Clutch was founded in 2017 and currently services Ontario British Columbia New Brunswick Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Clutch is backed by a number of world-class investors including D1 Capital Altos Ventures BMO Capital Partners Canaan Real Ventures and others. To learn more visit .
Were growing rapidly with inhouse reconditioning centres a captive lending platform and a national logistics network we combine manufacturinggrade operations with techenabled consumer experience. We plan to list publicly within 2436months and are building the finance foundation to get there.
The role
You will be Clutchs first Director of Strategic Finance owning the live three-statement model leading company-wide budgeting and variance analysis partnering with the executive team to lead capital allocation strategy leading corporate development / M&A efforts and quarterbacking every equity debt and leasing raise until Capital Markets spins out as a standalone team.
What youll do
- Build and continuously re-base a monthly 3-year model; deliver board-quality variance narratives.
- Partner with the CFO CEO and founder on capital allocation decisions and business unit leaders on capacity planning market sizing and pricing decisions.
- Lead capital-markets processes (equity rounds warehouse lines fleet sale-leasebacks): build scenarios manage data rooms drive diligence.
- Institutionalise FP&A rhythms: annual budget quarterly re-forecast department reviews KPI scorecards.
- Partner with the CEO and CFO on corporate development and M&A efforts.
- Recruit mentor and scale a high-performing team (initially the Manager analyst bench).
What you bring
- 8-12 yrs total experience: 2-4 yrs IB/PE plus 3-5 yrs strategic-finance/FP&A leadership in a high-growth tech or asset-heavy scale-up.
- Relentless attention to detail ownership mentality and a passion for building processes from the ground up (and iterating on them to improve automation and efficiency and improve accuracy).
- Insatiable curiously about our business its key drivers and how to optimize it. Youll constantly ask questions of our data our performance and our strategic direction that will help us improve the business daily.
- Elite Google-Sheets modelling; SQL/Snowflake/Looker fluency.
- Experience building and leading teams.
- Executive-ready communication with an ability to translate financial insights to nonfinance partners.
- Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and leaders and to influence outcomes without having direct authority.
- End-to-end fundraising execution (Series C credit facilities or IPO readiness).
Nice to have
- Marketplace automotive fintech or logistics exposure.
- Experience implementing FP&A/treasury systems.
Why Clutch
- Green-field build: architect the finance stack that underpins a future TSX/NYSE listing.
- Operational depth: ecommerce manufacturing and fintech under one roof.
- High-calibre team: report directly to a CFO who sees finance as a strategic weapon.
- Competitive package: market cash meaningful equity full benefits and an inoffice culture built on transparency and pace.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
