About Snaplii
Snaplii is one of Canada’s fastest-growing fintech platforms, transforming how people pay, save, and earn rewards. With over $70M in annual transaction volume and 200,000+ users across North America, we deliver unmatched utility and loyalty through a single seamless app.
We’ve ranked as high as #5 on the Apple App Store during peak shopping seasons, and consistently remain in the Top 80—driven by a highly engaged, high-retention user base. As the most payment-flexible platform in the space, Snaplii supports a wide range of digital payment methods and partners with 400+ leading brands, including Walmart, Amazon, and Esso.
Our platform is fully built and maintained in-house—engineered to handle complex payment flows, scale with demand, and support a growing suite of financial products. We’re actively expanding into new digital finance offerings to help users create, manage, and grow value in their everyday lives.
Join us as we shape the future of everyday spending.
Position Overview
We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead Snaplii’s financial operations as we scale rapidly and prepare for a potential IPO. This is not just a back-office finance role—we’re looking for a leader who deeply understands business drivers, partners cross-functionally with product, growth, and risk teams, and brings strong capital market experience.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced fintech environment, is confident managing ambiguity, and can build the financial infrastructure for a high-growth company.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Financial Leadership
- Partner with the CEO and executive team on company-wide financial strategy and long-term planning.
- Build a scalable finance function that enables business agility and clear decision-making.
- Translate business performance into financial insights and operating models.
2. Capital Markets & IPO Readiness
- Lead Snaplii’s IPO preparation process, including financial audits, structuring, governance readiness, and investor narrative development.
- Work with legal, banking, and regulatory partners to ensure compliance and optimal execution.
- Build a credible capital markets function to support fundraising, investor relations, and public market operations.
3. Financial Operations & Controls
- Oversee budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, treasury, and internal controls.
- Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting in compliance with GAAP and other relevant frameworks.
- Implement systems to support multi-entity, multi-currency operations as we scale internationally.
4. Business Partnering & Performance
- Be a strategic advisor to heads of Product, Marketing, Risk, and Engineering—helping align revenue, pricing, incentives, and investment decisions with financial goals.
- Drive unit economics improvement through CAC, ROI, LTV, payback, and margin optimization.
- Build robust reporting frameworks for tracking profitability, burn, and KPIs.
5. Team Leadership
- Build and mentor a high-performing finance, accounting, and compliance team.
- Implement operational discipline and accountability across all cost centers.
- Drive a culture of data-driven thinking and proactive financial ownership.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- 7–12 years of progressive financial leadership experience, ideally in fintech, payments, or digital consumer platforms
- Deep understanding of business models and proven track record of working alongside cross-functional teams to drive financial and operational results
- Experience with IPO or late-stage capital markets preparation is highly preferred
- Strong understanding of corporate governance, risk, and compliance standards (including SOX or equivalents)
- Demonstrated ability to build and scale finance infrastructure (people, systems, and processes)
- Excellent communication skills and board/investor presentation experience
- CPA, CFA, MBA, or equivalent qualification preferred
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $150,000.00-$200,000.00 per year
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Experience:
- IPO Preparation: 1 year (preferred)
- working in startup: 1 year (preferred)
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Work Location: In person
