Chief Financial Officer - Finance Operations

Title: Director of Finance & Administration Location: Atlanta, GA (hybrid, on-site at least 3 days per week) Reports to: President & CEO Compensation: $100,000–$150,000 per year plus equity participation (full-time)
Canary Hiring Technologies is hiring a hands-on Director of Finance and Administration in Atlanta, GA. This full-time, hybrid role combines Controller, FP&A, and operations work for a multi-entity software company that is growing through acquisitions. You'll own our books, cash, and reporting.

About us: Canary Hiring Technologies is a Georgia-based software company serving high-turnover industries like retail, grocery, and manufacturing. We've grown through several acquisitions. Now we need one person to bring finance and administration across all of them into a single, well-run operation. Finance and accounting

• Own the monthly close for all entities, with a target of closing within 10 business days. Manage cash, AR and collections, AP, and the 13-week cash forecast.
• Report on revenue, gross margin, and customer economics by product line. Work with outside CPAs on tax, audit or review, and any purchase accounting.
• Keep the books clean, documented, and ready for diligence at all times.

Acquisition integration

• Move acquired companies onto one chart of accounts, accounting system, billing process, and payroll and benefits platform.
• Build a repeatable integration playbook for future acquisitions.
• Support financial diligence and modeling on new acquisition targets.

Find and fix inefficiencies, including unprofitable customers, pricing gaps, vendor overspend, and manual processes.

• Choose and implement finance and operations systems, such as the GL, billing, expense management, and payroll.

Administration

• Run payroll, benefits, and HR administration, either directly or through a PEO.
• Manage insurance, corporate compliance, licenses, and state registrations across entities.
• Keep entity records and corporate governance documents organized.

8+ years in accounting and finance, including at least 3 years as a Controller, Finance Manager, or head of finance at a growing company.

• Experience integrating at least one acquired business, covering its books, systems, payroll, or benefits.
• Strong financial modeling skills and advanced Excel or Google Sheets.
• Working knowledge of GAAP, cash management, and payroll, benefits, and HR compliance.
• You explain numbers in plain English to non-finance people and push back when the data says to.

CPA or MBA.

• Experience at a SaaS or software company, including recurring-revenue metrics.
• NetSuite experience is strongly preferred, especially implementations, data migrations, or consolidating multiple instances. QuickBooks Enterprise or Online experience is also valuable, along with billing and payroll platforms.
• You've led a systems migration or built a finance function from scratch.
• Background in operations, process improvement, or business analysis alongside accounting.

Financial reporting, month-end close, multi-entity consolidation, GAAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks Enterprise, ERP migration, FP&A, budgeting and forecasting, cash flow management, SaaS metrics, M&A integration, payroll, HR administration, benefits administration, vendor management, process improvement.
Equity participation in the company.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus paid time off.
• Hybrid schedule, with at least 3 days per week on-site in Atlanta to work closely with the partners.

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