Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
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We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Finance- Insights and Analytics to join the Strategic Finance & Insights team working closely with the CFO and Executive Leadership Team on capital markets strategy, long-range planning, and multi-year business design. This role contributes directly to that work by leading the analytical layer that connects Lightspeed's revenue streams and by holding the FP&A relationship with data and analytics partners across the company.
Responsibilities
- Insights and Analysis: Lead the structuring, execution, and delivery of cross-functional analyses spanning all revenue streams (Software, Payments, Capital, and Hardware). Translate variances, structural shifts, and emerging trends across the business into clear narratives for senior finance leadership.
- Data Partnership and Stewardship: Serve as the senior FP&A point of contact for the Data Office, analytics teams, and platform owners across the company. Represent FP&A's position on the definition and integrity of finance-critical metrics, contribute to cross-functional alignment on master data management, standardized reporting dimensions, and data governance frameworks, and translate between technical data discussions and finance audiences.
- Forecasting Methodology and Accuracy: Support the evolution of Lightspeed's forecasting methodology and the framework used to assess forecasting accuracy. Identify structural sources of variance and contribute to improvements in how the team forecasts the business.
- AI and Innovation: Integrate AI tools, automation, and emerging analytical techniques into the team's analytical workflows where they meaningfully improve quality or efficiency.
Requirements
- Experience & Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- 7+ years of progressive FP&A, strategic finance, or analytical experience, ideally in a multi-product SaaS or payments environment.
- Experience with EPM platforms (Pigment, Adaptive, Anaplan, or similar).
- Experience at a public company is preferred.
- Track record of producing executive-facing analysis across multiple business lines or revenue streams.
- Experience partnering with data, analytics, or BI teams as a primary stakeholder.
- Experience with or exposure to master data management, data governance frameworks, or standardized reporting dimensions is a bonus.
- CPA or CFA designation is a bonus.
- Technical & Analytical Skills:
- Deep fluency in SaaS metrics: NRR, ARPU, churn, LTV/CAC, Rule of 40, etc.
- Strong financial modeling skills in Google Sheets/Excel.
- Familiarity with SQL and modern data tooling sufficient to partner with data teams as a peer and understand what good looks like. Hands-on coding proficiency is not required.
- Comfortable building structure across large, messy datasets where processes don't yet exist.
- AI fluency. You use LLMs, copilots, and automation tools in your actual workflow, not just as a talking point. Excitement about what's next matters as much as what you already know.
- Communication & Collaboration:
- Ability to translate complex analysis into simple, actionable narratives for non-finance stakeholders.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and making methodology calls with incomplete information.
- Cross-functional fluency. You've worked across Data, Accounting, and business teams, not just within Finance.
- Experience presenting to and influencing senior leadership, not just producing deliverables for them.
We Offer
- A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
- A culture that celebrates performance
- The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
- Career-defining opportunities
Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.
- Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
- Equity options, because this is your company too
- Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters
- Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
- Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
- Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
- Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook
- Enhanced parental leave to support growing families
Salary
The total compensation for this position is expected to be in the range of $140,000-180,000 CAD per year. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.
About the Company
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.
Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.
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Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.
Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.
Who we are:
Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.