Vice President Finance

18 Wheels Logistics is a national logistics and warehousing company headquartered in British Columbia that has rapidly expanded into Alberta, Ontario and Washington State. Although the company was established in 1989, we continue to have an entrepreneurial spirit that allows us to take on and succeed at new challenges and opportunities.

We are looking for a high caliber, entrepreneurial Vice President of Finance to help continue our growth in the 3PL warehousing and logistics market. As a core part of our executive leadership team, you will partner with the executive management and operations to shape the company’s financial strategy and processes to facilitate the growth and profitability of the company.

Reporting to the CFO and ownership, you will lead and have ownership of the finance department ensuring operational excellence. The role involves leading a 10-person accounting team, including both an Operational Controller and Finance Controller. This is a role that has the potential for further advancement for a high performer.

• Partner with CEO, CFO and COO to strategically build out the business. Key contributions would be to setup processes to extract useful performance analysis and use this to support/implement operational improvement and strategic decisions/change.
• Develop and implement financial strategies, budgets and processes that help achieve operational and business objectives.

• Develop and mentor accounting team, improve accounting processes that can scale with the business.
• Be responsible for financial report integrity, internal controls, internal compliance, tax, and treasury functions. Initially you will need to be more hands on until you are able to further develop the team and processes.

• Optimize newly implemented MS Dynamics 365 accounting ERP, using the system to automate and streamline accounting processes. Ability to use AI to increase efficiency is an asset.
• Further integrate operational systems such as Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transport Management System (TMS) and ADP payroll with accounting ERP.
• Extract and produce useful reporting/analysis from systems using Power BI.

• Work with Warehouses to understand their monthly performance vs. budget, labor efficiency and help them through the use of data/analysis to drive better results.
• Work with management to improve KPIs for warehouses, ensuring real-time data on warehouse operations.
• Ability to work with business leaders and operations managers to improve processes and drive efficiencies will be key for this position.
• Collaborate with management to establish performance management and incentives to achieve results.
• Ability to analyze results and work with operations to take corrective action.
• Set up cost control processes/analysis and work with operations to reduce costs.

• Provide comprehensive financial reporting for the board.
• Manage relationships with banks, auditors, and insurance companies.

• Audit experience from a Big Four Audit firm.
• Strong operational understanding of complex warehouse operations or similar.
• Experience implementing process to ensure operational efficiency in a 3PL or warehousing environment an added plus.
• Proven ability to build relationships across departments and lead complex projects.
• Experience optimizing MS Dynamics 365 and creating reports with Power BI is an added plus.
• Comfortable working in an environment with many moving parts.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Added plus to have experience overseeing either IT, Procurement or HR.
• A ‘can do’ attitude, adaptable to customer needs.