GAIN - Finance Business Partner

Team: Finance
Reporting to: Jake Sydenham (Head of FB&A & Commercial Finance)
Location: Toronto, Canada
GAIN is a creative-led, insight-driven company that blends data, tech and creativity. We believe the best ideas emerge where intelligence and creativity unite, where insight sparks imagination, and where innovation turns possibility into progress.
We are explorers of new frontiers, shaping bold strategies that move people, brands, and businesses forward. Individually and together, our specialist teams provide the vision, data, and confidence brands and organisations need to make braver, more impactful decisions.
Today as GAIN, we work as a united force, using data to fuel creativity, and technology to unlock new possibilities. As imagineers we don’t just embrace innovation – we engineer it, transforming information into action, and ideas into breakthroughs.
This is where rebel thinking, smart technology, and data-driven creativity shape the future. Through our five specialist teams, Creative Studio, Conversion, Customer Science, Experience and Performance. Individually, and together, we work to fuel growth and deliver measurable impact.
The Role
The Finance Business Partner plays a strategic role in driving business performance by providing insightful financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support. Partnering with business leaders across functions, this role ensures alignment between financial planning and operational execution, delivering value through data-driven insights. Where there are gaps in processes, the FBP will highlight them and provide potential solutions.
Responsibilities
Stakeholder Engagement and Influence
Effectively communicate with and build strong relationships with global stakeholders at all levels fostering a collaborative environment.
Drive cross functional collaboration, sharing knowledge and expertise to achieve shared objectives
Prepare impactful presentations to senior management articulating complex financial information with clarity
Driving Transformation
Enhancing financial reporting capabilities for both key components of the Conversion Business Unit, NA and EMEA, including embedding the financial processes for the recently in-housed accounting of the NA business.
Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and systems. Develop and implement improvements
Month-end
Production and analysis of departmental management accounts before presentations to CFO/Head of FP&A
Standard month-end processing
Planning and Analysis
Focus on Revenue, Delivery and sales opportunities
Annual Budget
Monthly rolling forecasts
Risks and Opportunity management
Business partnering financial & non-financial stakeholders
Scenario Planning
Ad hoc analysis required by Business Unit
Commercial Analysis (Client profitability, resource utilisation, etc)
Capex & Investment Committee papers/business cases
Requirements
5+ Years PQE (ACA/CIMA/ACCA)
Experience business partnering Senior Leadership Teams
Experience using large datasets, strong excel modelling and data driven skills
Ideally experience of working within a marketing, digital or creative agency environment
Experience in influencing strategic decisions of a business using a variety of data sources to back up recommendations and analysis
You have built best practice and are used to a dynamic business environment where problem-solving and process implementation are attractive challenges.
How You'll Work
Rebel Thinking: We don’t accept “good enough”. Rebel Thinking is about curiosity with courage. We make it safe to question assumptions, challenge the obvious, and explore smarter, braver ways forward, even when it feels uncomfortable. This is how new ideas, better products, and real breakthroughs happen.
Make It Happen: “We turn intent into momentum.” Making it Happen is about turning ambition in to action. We move fast, learn fast, and push through obstacles together. Progress beats perfection, and momentum creates impact.
Swarming Our Expertise: “Individually smart. Collectively unstoppable.” Swarming our Expertise means we win together. We commit to developing our expertise so that by combining diverse skills, perspectives, and experiences, we solve harder problems faster and deliver results no single expert could achieve together.
Benefits
3 weeks of paid time off to start
Work from anywhere in the world up to 20 business days or 4 weeks per year! We want you to build a life and a career at the same time.
Wellness time, health + dental coverage, health spending account, and wellness spending account so that you can prioritize YOU.
The typical hiring range for this role is $130,000 - $150,000 annually. This range reflects our commitment to our compensation philosophy, internal equity, and comes with a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Base pay will be determined based on role-related skills, knowledge, and experience.
GAIN is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity

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