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# Financial Controller at H2 Analytics

- **Company:** H2 Analytics
- **Location:** Canada
- **Compensation:** $100k–$130k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/h2analytics/ce846bb6-c093-44cb-be6d-b4ff1e7d2b7d

## Job description

H2 Analytics is a high growth and mission-focused technology company redefining how intelligence specialists train and modernize. We partner with military, national security, law enforcement, and other mission-driven organizations to improve readiness at speed and scale. Our team includes former intelligence professionals who have lived the problems we’re solving. We move fast, have ambitious goals, and are driven by a strong sense of purpose.

The pain point you can help us solve

H2 Analytics is scaling quickly. As we expand our operations, customer base, and product offerings, our finance function needs to evolve from early-stage financial operations into a more structured, automated, and scalable capability. We need stronger financial systems, cleaner reporting, tighter controls, and more reliable processes that can support growth, compliance, and decision-making across the business.

Historically, our finance operations have been lean and pragmatic, shaped around the needs of a fast-moving company. As the company grows, we see an opportunity to build a more mature finance function without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. This role will help establish the financial architecture, systems, and operating rhythm needed to support H2 Analytics through its next stage of growth, including global expansion, institutional financing, board reporting, and potential corporate development activity.

## What we’re looking for

As our Controller, you’ll play a central role in building and scaling the finance function at H2 Analytics. You’ll own core accounting, reporting, financial operations, internal controls, and finance systems while helping the company move toward a more automated, data-driven, and strategically useful finance model. Reporting to the CFO, you’ll have a clear mandate to design, build, and scale an increasingly automated finance function from the ground up, while ensuring our financial operations are accurate, efficient, compliant, and ready to support continued growth.

You’ll thrive here if you enjoy ownership, ambiguity, and building practical systems from the ground up. This is not a narrow accounting role or a maintenance role inside a mature finance department. We’re looking for someone who can combine strong accounting fundamentals with sound business judgment, operational discipline, and a willingness to improve how work gets done. If you’re motivated by meaningful work, high standards, and the opportunity to grow into a broader finance leadership role, this position offers significant room to shape both the function and your own career path.

This role is designed for a high-potential finance leader. You will report directly to the CFO and receive close mentorship as the company scales, with exposure to board materials, investor relations, institutional financing, and corporate development. Over time, the intent is for this person to grow into broader finance leadership responsibilities as H2 Analytics continues to mature.

Prerequisites:

5-10+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, to include:

- CPA designation.
- Experience managing monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
- Experience preparing accurate financial statements and supporting audit readiness.
- Experience with corporate tax filings, statutory reporting, payroll remittances, sales tax, and other recurring compliance obligations.
- Experience managing or supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, collections, expense management, treasury, and cash reporting.
- Experience using modern finance tools, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools to improve accuracy, reduce manual work, and increase speed.

Eligible to obtain (or hold) a Government of Canada Level II (Secret) security clearance.

Core skills:

Strong accounting judgment and the ability to maintain accurate, compliant, and decision-useful financial records in a fast-moving environment.

Ability to design, implement, and scale practical finance processes, internal controls, reporting workflows, and financial systems.

Ability to manage close, consolidation, revenue recognition, tax, remittances, audit readiness, and multi-entity financial reporting as the company grows.

Ability to improve financial operations across AP, AR, invoicing, collections, expenses, treasury, and working capital management.

Ability to use modern systems, integrations, automation, and AI-enabled workflows to reduce manual effort and create a lean, scalable finance function.

Ability to support budgeting, forecasting, cash flow modelling, budget-versus-actual reporting, and financial analysis for leadership.

Ability to communicate clearly with executives, department heads, external advisors, auditors, and other stakeholders.

Strong ownership mentality, sound judgment, and comfort operating in an environment where processes are still being built.

Nice to have:

Experience working in a high-growth technology company, service-based business, government contracting environment, defence contractor, or similarly complex operating environment.

Experience supporting M&A evaluation, due diligence, or post-transaction financial integration.

Experience with SaaS, software, professional services, government contracts, or hybrid revenue models.

Experience with ERP implementation, finance system migration, or optimization of tools such as Rippling, HubSpot, expense management platforms, or similar systems.

Military veteran or direct experience working in defence, national security, public safety, intelligence, or other high-trust operational environments.

## What we offer

Base salary: CAD $100,000 - $130,000 based on skill and experience.

Bonus: Eligible for an annual bonus based on company and individual performance.

Benefits: Extended health insurance for employees and their dependants.

Equity: Eligible to participate in the employee stock options program.

Job type: Full-time

Location: Hybrid - Ottawa, ON

This role is based out of our Ottawa, ON office. We embrace a hybrid work model that offers the best of both worlds—giving you the flexibility to work from home while coming together in the office once or twice a week for collaboration, team meetings, and culture-building events.

Vacancy status

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

How we use AI:

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen applications during the initial stage, for example to identify relevant skills and experience in your resume. AI is not used to make final hiring decisions; all shortlisting and hiring decisions are made by our hiring team.

## About H2 Analytics

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: H2 Analytics provides software and consulting solutions to enhance training, readiness, and digital adoption for intelligence, investigative, and command teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage, equity offered)
- **Headquarters**: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed; CEO is Hugo Hodgett [datanyze.com](https://www.datanyze.com/companies/h2-analytics/561641918)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Defense & Space, National Security, Intelligence, and Emergency Response
- Target customers: B2B / B2G – military, national security agencies, law enforcement, and aid/humanitarian organizations
- Mission: Accelerate training, readiness, and digital adoption by delivering purpose-fit solutions that turn information into decisions [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/)

## Products & Services
- **Exercise Architect Suite (EASE)™**: AI-enabled software for designing, developing, and managing realistic, intelligence-driven training exercises. Includes data and report creation with generative AI [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/).
- **TAK (Team Awareness Kit) Solutions**: Custom plugins, deployment kits, and training for TAK to improve situational awareness and decision-making [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/).
- **Custom Data Solutions**: Tailored integration, courseware development, and JADC2 projects for intelligence and command teams [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/).
- **Consulting Services**: Expertise from mission-oriented veterans in C4ISR, intelligence analysis, and operational readiness [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Estimated annual revenue of $2.4M (datanyze estimate) [datanyze.com](https://www.datanyze.com/companies/h2-analytics/561641918)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed; clients include military, national security, and law enforcement organizations in Canada and allied nations
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 41.7% year-over-year (to 11 employees, per LinkedIn); active job postings increased 100% month-over-month; expanding generative AI capabilities [LinkedIn](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/h2analytics) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/h2-analytics)

## Competitive Advantages
- Strong niche in defense/intelligence training with AI-powered scenario generation (EASE™)
- Deep domain expertise from a team of former intelligence and defence professionals
- Proven C4ISR and JADC2 experience with a client base that includes Canada and allied nations
- Fully customizable, deployable in customer data centers (air-gapped environments) for security-sensitive clients [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/careers/senior-software-developer/)

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating adoption of generative AI and LLMs in training exercise creation
- Expanding TAK ecosystem and geospatial capabilities
- Scaling the engineering team to deliver robust, mission-critical SaaS and on-prem solutions
- Continued growth in defense, intelligence, and emergency response sectors

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Perks**: Supportive, diverse team with flexible vacation policy and equity in a growing startup. Annual team get-togethers. [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/careers/senior-software-developer/)
- **Work Model**: Fully remote within Canada (Eastern time zone core hours); Ottawa office available for those who prefer hybrid [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/h2-analytics)
- **Compensation**: Competitive base salary (CAD $120k – $170k for senior roles) plus medical, dental, vision for employee and family [h2analytics.ca](https://www.h2analytics.ca/careers/senior-software-developer/)
- **Engineering Culture**: Remote-first, agile (lightweight Scrum), frequent code shipping, results-oriented, minimal process overhead. Tech stack includes TypeScript, Python, Vue, React, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/h2-analytics)
- **Impact**: Work on mission-critical software used by defence and first responders – code directly affects real-world training and readiness

## Sources
1. [H2 Analytics Website](https://www.h2analytics.ca/)
2. [Built In Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/h2-analytics)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/h2analytics)
4. [Datanyze Company Profile](https://www.datanyze.com/companies/h2-analytics/561641918)
5. [Senior Software Developer Job Posting](https://www.h2analytics.ca/careers/senior-software-developer/)

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