Finance Director – Mikros Animation

Role overview

They lead the Mikros Animation finance team, while benefiting from the support of shared resources at Rodeo FX Group for certain systems, processes, and activities. Main Responsibilities:Financial Leadership and Business PartnershipAct as a key partner to the President of Mikros Animation, the CFO, and the management teams. Team LeadershipLead, support, and develop the Mikros Animation finance team. Build trusting relationships with financial, commercial, operational, and creative teams.

What the employer is looking for

• CPA designation or equivalent qualification, strongly desired.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in finance, accounting, financial control, FP&A, or business partnership, including experience in a management or financial leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in financial management, reporting, budgets, forecasts, treasury, and performance analysis.
• Solid ability to act as a business partner to executives, operational teams, and non-financial stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze profitability, margins, risks, and cash flow impacts related to projects or business decisions.
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to translate financial data into concrete recommendations.
• Ability to anticipate financial issues, project short- and medium-term impacts, and escalate risks at the right time.
• Strong sense of ownership, with a demonstrated ability to take charge of issues, structure the required actions, and lead them to resolution.
• Experience in a project-oriented environment, professional services, production, media, animation, VFX, video games, or the creative industry is considered an important asset.
• Comfortable with ERPs, financial systems, reporting tools, and advanced Excel. Experience with NetSuite, Flow, or production environments is an asset.
• Ability to evolve in a fast-paced, complex, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to demystify financial information and build clear, transparent, and proactive exchanges with financial and non-financial interlocutors.
• Rigor, integrity, and commitment to sound and transparent financial governance.
• Fluency in French and English, both oral and written, in order to collaborate with local and international teams and partners.*
• Collaborative leadership and the ability to influence in a multidisciplinary environment.
• High level of autonomy, sense of priorities, and ability to structure work in a changing context.
• Analytical mind, financial rigor, and ability to step back and look at business issues.
• Commercial judgment and ability to support decisions related to profitability, risks, and performance.
• Intellectual curiosity and the desire to improve practices, tools, and processes.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with financial, operational, commercial, and creative teams.
• High sense of responsibility, discretion, and reliability in handling financial information.

Preferred qualifications

• Collaborative leadership and the ability to influence in a multidisciplinary environment.
• High level of autonomy, sense of priorities, and ability to structure work in a changing context.
• Analytical mind, financial rigor, and ability to step back and look at business issues.
• Commercial judgment and ability to support decisions related to profitability, risks, and performance.
• Intellectual curiosity and the desire to improve practices, tools, and processes.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with financial, operational, commercial, and creative teams.
• High sense of responsibility, discretion, and reliability in handling financial information.