Fractional CFO for Software & SaaS in London, Ontario

SaaS finance is its own discipline. Recognized revenue rarely matches cash, the metrics investors care about are not on the standard P&L, and the difference between a fundable story and a confusing one is almost entirely in how the numbers are framed. Founders usually do not need more bookkeeping, they need someone who speaks ARR, runway, and the board's language.

Software and SaaS companies in London and southwestern Ontario are chasing the same investor-grade financial story as anyone in Toronto, often with leaner finance teams. With 350-plus tech and SaaS firms, Western University's talent pipeline, and a deep insurance and health-sciences base, London has a genuine software cluster but scarce senior finance. I bring direct Series B/C SaaS experience, ARR forecasting, ASC 606, and board decks, plus a sell-side M&A exit, so your numbers stand up to diligence.

This is squarely in my wheelhouse. I lead strategic finance and FP&A for Series B/C SaaS companies across the US and Canada, 3-statement models, driver-based forecasting around ARR, services revenue, headcount, utilization, and gross margin, ASC 606 revenue recognition, board and investor reporting, and an AI-native finance stack. I also led a sell-side M&A exit (a venture-backed company, acquired by a strategic acquirer), so I have built the model that gets a company through diligence.

I serve London and southwestern Ontario with scheduled on-site time plus a tight remote cadence in between, close enough to be present for the moments that matter, structured enough to stay efficient. For a London software & SaaS business, that combination, industry depth plus a CFO who speaks ARR, runway, and the board’s language, is rare in this market.

Beyond the model, I am comfortable owning the finance tooling end to end. Steel City CFO's systems experience means I can stand up or clean up the stack, billing, accounting, and the reporting layer, so your SaaS metrics come out of a system instead of a heroic monthly spreadsheet rebuild.

That second service line, Financial Systems Architecture, is what makes the CFO work stick at a SaaS company: when billing and the systems behind it are clean, your ARR, deferred revenue, and burn come straight out of the stack instead of a spreadsheet rebuild.