Chief Financial Officer, Top Hat
Interactive software for higher education
Job no longer available
Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- Acted as CFO at a software company with >$100M annual revenue
- Strong executive experience transforming finance operations to meet the reporting requirements of leading private investors and/or public markets
- A track record of successful M&A transactions and integrations
- The executive leadership skills required to excite and align our team around our mission and to drive high performance in revenue growth and margin expansion
- Experience building a tech-enabled, modern finance and accounting organization
- The ability to live in the Toronto Ontario or Austin Texas regions is preferred
What the job involves
- Have command as CFO and also thrive on being a strategy partner and cross-functional operational leader with the CEO and exec team
- Simplify what is complex and communicate with clarity that establishes alignment
- Be a visible company leader, driving the planning and execution of our growth and mission to unleash the full potential of college students
- Implement a roadmap to mature finance and administrative functions, including FP&A, Accounting, Data & Systems and investor relations with support from VP Corp Dev
- Proactively see around the corner to maximize investor and Board support, including future private and/or public fundraising efforts
- Identify and lead the business through long range margin expansion initiatives
- Act in partnership with our Chief People Officer Larry Indovina and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Hately to run a high-ROI back office operation
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at a lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top of it.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those high-quality materials into digital versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Bay-Cloverhill, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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