Role Overview
The Pike Group is a diversified, growth-focused organization with operations in heavy equipment, trucking, and related industries. We are seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to help lead the next phase of growth.
Reporting to the CEO and working closely with the COO, you will act as a true business partner, supporting strategy, improving profitability, and building the financial, people, and technology infrastructure required to scale a high-performance dealership group.
Your Mandate
Lead Finance, with oversight of HR and IT, ensuring sound financial stewardship, strong governance, and organizational capability to enable sustainable growth.
This includes:
- Driving sustainable EBITDA growth
- Building scalable systems and processes
- Embedding financial discipline into all areas of operations
- Enabling expansion through data-driven decision-making and capital strategy
What You'll Do
Drive Strategy & Growth
- Partner with the CEO and COO to execute the Group’s strategic plan, including expansion and acquisitions
- Lead financial modeling, scenario planning, and capital allocation decisions
- Provide insight that drives action—not just reporting
- Manage the KPIs critical to dealership success:
- Expense ratios
- Interest expense
- Gross margin by department
- Inventory turns and aging
- Working capital and cash flow
- Deliver actionable insights at the branch and executive level
- Support a sales-driven culture with disciplined financial oversight
Lead Dealership Financial Performance
Own the Finance Function
- Lead all aspects of finance across a multi-entity structure:
- Budgeting, forecasting, and Financial Planning & Admin
- Financial reporting and controls
- Cash flow and working capital management
- Oversee inventory strategy and floorplan financing
- Ensure accurate, timely financials that enable fast decision-making
Partner with Operations to Maximize Profitability
- Work closely with the COO to improve efficiency, margins, and absorption
- Support pricing strategies, cost control, and operational discipline
- Bring financial clarity to operational decisions across all locations
Strengthen the Business Backbone (HR, Payroll & IT)
- Oversee HR, Payroll, and IT (internal and outsourced resources)
- Collaborate with the COO to drive performance management, compensation alignment, and workforce planning
- Lead IT strategy, including DMS optimization, system integration, and data visibility
Governance, Risk & Financial Discipline
- Establish strong internal controls and financial governance
- Manage banking, audit, tax, and external stakeholder relationships
- Identify and mitigate financial and operational risks
- Ensure the business is structured to grow responsibly and sustainably
Candidate Profile
What We’re Looking For
- CPA designation required
- 10+ years of senior financial leadership experience
- Experience in a dealership, industrial, or multi-unit operating environment strongly preferred
- Deep understanding of:
- Fixed operations and absorption models
- Inventory management and floorplan financing
- Multi-location business performance
- Proven ability to drive growth and improve profitability
- Experience leading cross-functional teams including HR and IT
- A hands-on leader who can operate strategically and tactically
- Experience with Dealer Management Systems (Proceed for example) and asset
- Prior experience leading the HR function an asset
What Success Looks Like
- Consistent EBITDA growth and improved profitability
- Strong fixed ops absorption and margin performance
- Tight control of inventory, overhead expense, cash flow, and working capital
- Scalable systems and processes that support expansion
- High-performing Finance, HR, and IT functions
- A finance function that is a true competitive advantage
Why Join the Pike Group?
- Be part of a growth-focused, entrepreneurial organization
- Work directly with a driven CEO and operations-focused COO
- Lead across multiple businesses with real impact
- Help build a dealership group that outperforms the market
- We offer competitive salary and benefits, including cost-shared health, medical, dental, group RRSP, bonus opportunity.
