Smart Choice Professional Services Inc. is a customer focused and results driven recruitment firm located in Greater Vancouver, serving clients in a broad range of industries and sizes throughout BC and Alberta since 2016. Our expertise is in connecting Accounting + Payroll + Administration professionals to the right opportunities.

Summary - Director, Fintech The successful candidate will combine financial process knowledge with systems thinking, technical fluency & cross-functional leadership. Also, the incumbent will bring structure to complexity, simplify workflows & ensure financial technologies support better decisions — not just better reporting.

RESPONSIBLITIES

- Finance Systems Strategy & Architecture: Own the end-to-end finance systems architecture, ensuring alignment across ERP, CRM, payments, FP&A;, and BI platforms. Design scalable, resilient system landscapes that support growth, product expansion, and franchise complexity. Act as the enterprise steward of how financial data moves, connects, and is consumed.
- Integration & Data Flow Enablement: Lead the design and delivery of system integrations using integration platforms and native APIs. Ensure timely, accurate, and reliable data flows between finance, product, and operational systems. Establish data governance principles that support a single source of truth and enterprise confidence in financial data.
- Product & Technology Partnership: Partner with Product and Technology teams to ensure finance systems support new products, pricing models, and customer journeys. Translate financial requirements into system capabilities early in the product lifecycle. Support experimentation and iteration while maintaining financial discipline and controls.
- Leadership, Delivery & Governance: Lead and develop a high-performing team and vendor ecosystem. Set transparent priorities, manage dependencies, and drive delivery with accountability. Establish governance for finance systems changes, enhancements, and adoption.
- Automation & Process Modernization:



Lead the roadmap to automate and optimize core finance processes, including close, AR/AP, forecasting, and reporting. Reduce manual effort and operational risk by simplifying workflows and eliminating redundant processes. Ensure automation efforts balance efficiency, control, and business usability.
- Franchise & Field Enablement: Collaborate with franchise partners and field teams to design integrations and tools that simplify their financial workflows. Ensure finance systems scale across the franchise network while respecting local realities and adoption needs. Act as a bridge between enterprise systems and on-the-ground execution.

QUALIFICATIONS:
- 8 - 12+ years of experience across software engineering, systems architecture, financial technology, enterprise applications, or finance technology transformation, with a strong track record of building and scaling technology solutions.
- Strong engineering and coding foundation — with hands-on experience in JavaScript and/or TypeScript and the ability to write, review, troubleshoot, and understand production code. Comfortable working with APIs, webhooks, databases, data pipelines, and integration frameworks.
- Advanced integration and data-flow expertise — proven ability to connect systems and make them work together across platforms, data warehouses, and SaaS applications using APIs, middleware, integration platforms, and custom solutions, while ensuring reliable, accurate, and traceable data flows.
- Strong technical understanding of modern data and cloud architecture, including relational databases, SQL, APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud data platforms, event-driven integrations, and integration technologies. Experience with platforms such as Snowflake,



Amazon Redshift, or similar is highly valued.
- Systems thinker and problem solver who can look across the entire technology ecosystem, identify gaps and points of failure, and determine whether the right solution is configuration, integration, automation, or custom development.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and building from the ground up — able to simplify complex problems, make pragmatic technology decisions, and create scalable solutions without over-engineering. Ability to work closely with Finance, Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations teams and translate between business needs and technical solutions.
- Builder mentality — curious, hands-on, and willing to get into the details. You don't just identify that two systems need to connect; you understand how they should connect and can work with engineers or vendors to make it happen.
- Understanding of finance processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, record-to-report, month-end close, revenue and payments is an asset
- Experience working with NetSuite or finance systems and applications is an asset

If you want to become a part of the very successful team, please email a copy of an updated resume in WORD document to [email protected] for immediate consideration! Thank you to all who showed interest in this opportunity. We will contact only those who have met the qualifications required by the role. The Smart Choice team looks forward to working with you in achieving your career goal.

To your success,

Michelle Yau, RPR, PCP | James Kwong, CPA, PCP | Co-Founders | Recruitment Specialists

SMART CHOICE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC. | www.smartchoicepro.com

Pay: $175,000.00-$186,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- Work from home

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Metro Vancouver Regional District, BC (Metro Vancouver Regional District)

📌 Director, Fintech (Metro Vancouver)
🏢 Smart Choice Professional Services
📍 Metro Vancouver