DIRECTOR OF FINANCE & ACCOUNTING — VOLUNTEER, PART-TIME

INTERNAL TITLE: HEAD OF FINANCE

Organization

: Right to Live Canada

Location

: Remote (United States, Canada or Europe)

Time Commitment: Part-time volunteer role targeting 8 to 12 hours per week, including meetings and all role work. Duration negotiable; four-month minimum.

This is a remote volunteer opportunity with Right to Live Canada, a Canadian nonprofit startup.

THE MISSION

Right to Live Canada exists to make continued life a practical, supported, executable option when a preferable living future exists but the systems required to reach it do not.

We were founded in response to systemic poverty-driven euthanasia among Canadians with disabilities: cases in which people pursue MAiD because housing, income, care, treatment, or other essentials required to continue living are unavailable. In those cases, death can become the executable option while a preferable living future remains structurally out of reach.

That distinction defines Right to Live. Right to Live is the only organization in Canada addressing euthanasia with a practical solution model for all Canadians - not merely opposing MAiD, documenting harms, or raising awareness, but building the service, financing, technological, and institutional infrastructure that can make continued life executable.

The scale of the issue is already national: 16,499 Canadians received MAiD in 2024, equal to 5.1% of all deaths in Canada, and the number of MAiD provisions increased another 6.9% over 2023 after years of year-over-year growth. MAiD is the fourth leading cause of death in Canada. And those 16,499 deaths capture only euthanasia itself - not Canadians who die because care is inaccessible, support gaps go unresolved, or life-preserving and specialty treatments cannot be reached.

We were founded in response to poverty-driven disability euthanasia, but the solution is not limited to disability: Continuity is being built for any Canadian facing a potential death where a preferable living future can still be achieved.

We call that infrastructure Continuity: the service, financial, technological, and institutional architecture required to connect a person facing potential death to a preferable living future. The model is designed to identify what would make continued life viable, assemble the intervention, solve the financing problem, and execute it. Its scope can extend from social and medical supports to frontier technologies where the body itself becomes the limiting factor.

Right to Live is building this through four core areas:

- Continuity Service — the practical service layer: identify what is driving a person toward an avoidable death, design a preferable living future, determine how it can be financed, execute the intervention, and produce an actual outcome rather than another referral dead end.
- Continuity Insurance — developing insurance-based financing so people can pre-fund access to Continuity interventions before a future death-risk scenario becomes an immediate financial crisis.
- Social Brokerage — developing a way to finance people who cannot afford Continuity by turning the anonymized outcome of a life supported into a measurable impact product for global impact buyers.




- Corporate Farming — building and incubating mission-locked organizations around the technologies, services, infrastructure, and concepts Continuity will need, then spinning them out to pursue those missions at full scale.

Right to Live is an early-stage, founder-led Canadian nonprofit built to move at startup speed on problems normally treated as separate: poverty-driven disability euthanasia, the absence of a practical service pathway to preferable living futures, the financing gaps that can make survival inaccessible, and frontier technologies that could preserve continuity when ordinary life-support pathways run out. OpenABLS is one of our most ambitious examples: a nonprofit-led, open-source Artificial Brain Life Support development project working toward a reference design that could sustain a living brain when the body can no longer support it. The work combines immediate human impact with extraordinary long-term potential.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

This is a part-time, volunteer, and remote department-head role for a Director of Finance & Accounting with Right to Live Canada. The internal title is Head of Finance.

The Director will build and run RTL's Finance Department. The immediate work is hands-on accounting: lead the bookkeeping team, clear the backlog, reconstruct RTL's financial history in QuickBooks, reconcile the accounts, resolve missing records, and bring the books fully up to date.

From there, the Head builds the department around RTL's actual needs: decide what Finance owns, create the processes and controls, define the roles, recruit through People Services, and keep the live work moving while recurring execution is handed into the team.

Budgeting and financial planning are an early build priority. Finance needs to turn department plans into budgets, track spending, forecast upcoming costs, and keep cash and obligations current so leadership can see the financial effect of decisions before committing money.

As the department is built out, it may support:

- Revenue and Sponsorships: transactions, invoicing, receivables, cash tracking, revenue reconciliation, approved partner or affiliate payouts, and channel financial reporting.
- Continuity Service: case budgets, provider payments, reimbursements, funding-source tracking, and an auditable spending record.
- Continuity Insurance and Social Brokerage: financial modelling, transaction economics, funds flows, disbursements, controls, reconciliation, and reporting; actuarial, underwriting, and other specialist work remains with those teams.
- Corporate Farming: startup budgets, accounting systems, charts of accounts, banking and payment setup, controls, reporting standards, and clean financial separation for new mission-locked entities.
- OpenABLS and other major projects: project and R&D; budgets, procurement and vendor costs, in-kind or contributed assets, and project-specific funding visibility.
- Marketing, Public Relations, Academic Research, People Services, and other departments: budgets,



purchasing and expense controls, reimbursements, vendor payments, and financial reporting.

At the corporate level, Finance must also support accurate financial statements, month-end and year-end close, banking and payment controls, records, filing preparation, audit or review readiness, and leadership and board reporting. The Head is building toward that department, not personally remaining the owner of every finance task. The starting team is the Head of Finance and a Bookkeeper. The Head covers gaps and reviews the work closely at first, then adds capacity through People Services as workload justifies it and moves recurring work into the right roles.

That requires someone who can run the live finance function while building the people, systems, roles, and operating structure behind it.

QUALIFICATIONS

Universal Requirements:

- Reliable equipment and internet access for professional-quality video and audio meetings.
- A quiet setting where virtual meetings can receive your full attention.

Required :

- Professional accounting and finance experience including bookkeeping oversight, reconciliations, financial reporting, budgeting, cash management, controls, and hands-on QuickBooks work.
- Experience building a finance or accounting department while running the live function: defining roles, hiring or managing staff, creating workflows and controls, and moving recurring work into the team.
- Experience cleaning up incomplete historical books, including identifying missing records, correcting classifications, reconciling accounts, and establishing an accurate financial history.
- Robust knowledge of accrual accounting, chart-of-accounts design, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and cash-flow planning.
- Experience working with department leaders on budgets, budget-versus-actual reporting, forecasting, and financial decisions.
- Working knowledge of nonprofit accounting, including contributions, sponsorships, restricted or designated funds, in-kind support, and project funding.
- Experience setting practical controls for approvals, expenses, payments, receivables, reimbursements, recordkeeping, and access to financial information.
- Experience managing bookkeepers or accounting staff, reviewing their work, correcting errors, and building procedures they can follow reliably.
- Strong judgment, accuracy, discretion, organization, and follow-through in a remote environment, with the ability to work effectively with non-finance leaders.

Preferred :

- CPA, CPA candidate, chartered accountant, or equivalent professional qualification.
- Canadian nonprofit or charitable accounting, tax, regulatory, or year-end experience.
- Multi-entity accounting or financial setup for new or related organizations.
- Experience with sponsorship, affiliate, donation, grant, social-finance, insurance, R&D;, or other mixed funding models.
- Board reporting, forecasting, scenario modelling, and operating-budget experience.

TIME COMMITMENT This is a part-time volunteer role targeting 8 to 12 hours per week, including meetings and all role work, for at least four months. The role is for an experienced finance leader who wants direct ownership of building a core department and can work independently in a fast-moving remote organization.

📌 Director of Finance & Accounting (Remote, Volunteer, Part-Time) (Canada)
🏢 Right To Live Canada
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