We're looking for a fractional CFO 📊

ANSO ATELIER is a full service creative marketing agency based in Montreal. 15 people, five years in, profitable and growing, working with established brands across North America. The financial foundations are handled. Our operations manager runs bookkeeping, payments, payroll and receivables day to day. Our accountant handles tax and compliance. What we don't have is the strategic layer above that. Someone who looks at the numbers and tells us what they mean, what to charge, who to hire, and where the business should go financially. That's this role.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗱 𝗼𝘄𝗻 → Profitability analysis by client and by service line. Which accounts and services actually make us money → Annual budget and rolling projections, built by you, run by our ops team → Cash flow planning → Financial support on big decisions. New hires, raises, comp and bonus structures, pricing → Building and improving our financial systems yourself. Budget models, expense tracking, QuickBooks structure. You make them smarter, our ops manager runs them → Evaluating our current accounting setup and making sure every seat in our finance stack is the right one

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 We start with a deeper diagnostic phase over the first month or two. Digging into the books, pricing, margins and systems. After that, an ongoing rhythm of one to a few days per month depending on what the business needs. In person at our Montreal office, working directly with me and our operations manager.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 You've done this before for agencies or service businesses and you understand how they make money. Retainers, project margins, utilization, production costs. You think like an operator, not a bookkeeper. You're just as comfortable building the spreadsheet as presenting it. You come in with opinions. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to make a real dent in a growing company, not review statements from a distance.

If this sounds like you or someone you know, send me an e-mail : anso@ansoatelier.com 📩