Finance Director – Mikros Animation

Company Description

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio located in Paris, Montreal and Bangalore offering end-to-end animation services for feature and episodic. In over a decade, Mikros Animation has contributed to 17 feature-length animated films and numerous high-quality episodic shows for the world’s best-known animation studios such as Paramount, Netflix and DreamWorks. It has also produced hundreds of hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and TF1, with their content airing and streaming in over 180 countries. Their portfolio includes blockbuster hits like PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, Star Trek: Prodigy, Orion and the Dark, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
In 2025, Mikros Animation joined the Rodeo FX group, the creative company notably behind the visual effects of The Rings of Power, Stranger Things and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Job Description

Reporting to the Rodeo FX Group CFO, the Finance Director plays a key role at Mikros Animation, an internationally recognized studio for its film and television productions.

As the financial leader of Mikros Animation, the person in this position works in close collaboration with the Studio President, the CFO, and the management teams. They act as a business partner to the commercial, operational, and production teams, providing a clear understanding of issues related to performance, project profitability, forecasts, and treasury.

The role exists in a context of growth, where Mikros Animation aims to strengthen its financial visibility and its ability to support large-scale projects.

They lead the Mikros Animation finance team, while benefiting from the support of shared resources at Rodeo FX Group for certain systems, processes, and activities. Their mandate covers financial management, reporting, budget planning, forecasting, treasury, accounting operations, and continuous improvement of functional practices.

This position is intended for a rigorous, proactive, and business-oriented person, capable of combining financial expertise, commercial judgment, and collaborative leadership in a creative, international, and project-oriented environment.

Main Responsibilities:

Financial Leadership and Business Partnership

• Act as a key partner to the President of Mikros Animation, the CFO, and the management teams.
• Support business decisions by providing clear, rigorous, and action-oriented analyses.
• Be the financial reference in management discussions, identifying risks, opportunities, and the impacts of proposed decisions.
• Contribute to the monitoring of budgets, forecasts, treasury, margins, and key indicators.
• Challenge financial and operational assumptions when necessary, while maintaining a constructive approach with the teams.
• Support business priorities, financial plans, and Mikros Animation’s growth initiatives.

Project Profitability and Bid Support

• Participate in the client proposal development process to ensure a rigorous evaluation of profitability, budgetary assumptions, and associated risks.
• Support commercial, operational, and production teams in the financial analysis of projects.
• Prepare and analyze scenarios to inform decisions related to projects, resources, production territories, and business priorities.
• Improve visibility on margins, costs, financial commitments, and impacts on cash flow.
• Help teams make informed decisions regarding production priorities and performance goals.

Accounting, Reporting, and Compliance

• Oversee Mikros Animation’s accounting operations and ensure the reliability, quality, and compliance of financial information.
• Present monthly results to management, highlighting variances, trends, risks, and levers for action.
• Ensure compliance with applicable legal, tax, regulatory, and compliance obligations.
• Ensure the robustness of internal controls, financial processes, and governance practices.
• Maintain trusting relationships with internal and external partners, including auditors, advisors, financial institutions, and other stakeholders.

Financial Planning, Budgets, and Treasury

• Lead budget processes and continuous forecasting, ensuring their rigor, relevance, and monitoring with management.
• Supervise treasury management and anticipate short-, medium-, and long-term liquidity needs.
• Identify performance gaps, analyze their causes, and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
• Develop a clear vision of future financial issues to help teams anticipate impacts on projects, operations, and studio growth.

Group Collaboration, Systems, and Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate closely with the Rodeo FX Group finance teams and the financial leaders of other entities to ensure the alignment of practices, tools, and reporting.
• Optimize financial, accounting, and forecasting processes to improve the efficiency and quality of information.
• Ensure that financial systems adequately support current operations and future growth.
• Work with relevant teams to ensure the reliability of processes related to payroll, when required.
• Propose improvements to tools, working methods, and reporting practices to support faster and more reliable decision-making.

Team Leadership

• Lead, support, and develop the Mikros Animation finance team.
• Foster a culture of rigor, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Clarify priorities, support execution, and ensure a high level of quality in financial deliverables.
• Build trusting relationships with financial, commercial, operational, and creative teams.

Qualifications

• CPA designation or equivalent qualification, strongly desired.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in finance, accounting, financial control, FP&A, or business partnership, including experience in a management or financial leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in financial management, reporting, budgets, forecasts, treasury, and performance analysis.
• Solid ability to act as a business partner to executives, operational teams, and non-financial stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze profitability, margins, risks, and cash flow impacts related to projects or business decisions.
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to translate financial data into concrete recommendations.
• Ability to anticipate financial issues, project short- and medium-term impacts, and escalate risks at the right time.
• Strong sense of ownership, with a demonstrated ability to take charge of issues, structure the required actions, and lead them to resolution.
• Experience in a project-oriented environment, professional services, production, media, animation, VFX, video games, or the creative industry is considered an important asset.
• Comfortable with ERPs, financial systems, reporting tools, and advanced Excel. Experience with NetSuite, Flow, or production environments is an asset.
• Ability to evolve in a fast-paced, complex, and sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to demystify financial information and build clear, transparent, and proactive exchanges with financial and non-financial interlocutors.
• Rigor, integrity, and commitment to sound and transparent financial governance.
• Fluency in French and English, both oral and written, in order to collaborate with local and international teams and partners.*

Desired Skills

• Collaborative leadership and the ability to influence in a multidisciplinary environment.
• High level of autonomy, sense of priorities, and ability to structure work in a changing context.
• Analytical mind, financial rigor, and ability to step back and look at business issues.
• Commercial judgment and ability to support decisions related to profitability, risks, and performance.
• Intellectual curiosity and the desire to improve practices, tools, and processes.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with financial, operational, commercial, and creative teams.
• High sense of responsibility, discretion, and reliability in handling financial information.

* The person in this position will need to collaborate daily with our teams located outside of Quebec, particularly in Los Angeles and Toronto, where the working language is primarily English. They will also be called upon to communicate regularly with external non-French-speaking international stakeholders. Proficiency in English is therefore essential to ensure fluid and effective communication in an international work environment and to represent the creative and technical capabilities of Rodeo FX on a global scale.

Additional Information

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Mikros Animation is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and respectful work environment where every person is welcomed, considered and evaluated based on their skills, experience and potential.

We are committed to fostering a workplace free from discrimination, where employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, family status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, citizenship, veteran or military status, political beliefs, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

Each member of our team brings a unique perspective that enriches our creativity, broadens our thinking and contributes to the quality of the stories we bring to the screen.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

Mikros Animation may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support certain stages of the recruitment process, including interview transcription or preliminary candidate application analysis. These tools may be operated by third-party providers, and certain data may be processed outside of Quebec.

These tools never replace human decision-making: all final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team and hiring managers.

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