Controller

Salary Grade: Director

Reporting to: Directors

Number of Direct Reports: 1

Job Summary: The Controller is responsible for the financial activities of Suitcase Interactive, including planning, debt financing and budget management. The Controller is accountable to ensure the finances of the company are in good standing, conform to generally accepted accounting principles and maintain high financial operating standards.

• Critical Aspects:
  • Financial policy
  • Financial reporting
  • Profitability and sustainability

• Responsibilities:
  • Maintain ownership of the profit & loss statement for the office. This includes the oversight of all expenses - payroll and related, facilities, vendors, contractors, hardware, software, supplies, equipment leases and other operational costs related to the office.
  • Direct, coordinate, and report on the financial activities of the company.
  • Recommend benchmarks for measuring the financial and operating performance of divisions and departments.
  • Understand the company's overall vision and assist the executive team to achieve their goals.
  • Direct and coordinate debt financing and service payments with external agencies.
  • Manage the preparation of the financial reports for the quarterly board meetings.
  • Manage and prepare financial reports on an as-needed basis.
  • Oversee daily operations of the finance department.
  • Main contact for office related finance questions.
  • Manage the preparation of financial outlooks and forecasts.
  • Lead the office efforts to maintain time sheet compliance.
  • Work closely with Project managers to make sure all human resources are being fully maximized. Suggest hiring/layoffs to directors/executives.
  • Working with managers and executive, develop five and ten year business plans.
  • Oversee all record keeping functions insisting on accuracy and efficiency.
  • Initiate and implement short and long term goals, financial policy and operating procedures.
  • Work closely with the Executives to produce the annual budget and mid-year business review and the monthly forecast and reporting of actuals.
  • Work closely with resource management or project managers to contain the cost of non-billable contract workers.
  • Serve on policy and planning committees.
  • Direct financial audits and recommend improvements.
  • Oversee Accounts Receivable and Payable.
  • Working with Account Managers and Project Managers, build payment structures within the Statement of Work.
  • Communicate financial policies to the team.
  • Develop budgets, sales forecasts and financial summaries.
  • Monitor department budgets and holds team members accountable for spending.
  • Develop and implement tools for tracking project profit.
  • Make investment and asset growth recommendations.

• Technical Proficiencies:
  • Expert in financial accounting operating systems.

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Accounting Designation
  • Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections.
  • Working knowledge of short and long term budgeting and forecasting, rolling budgets, and service and production profitability analysis.
  • 4+ years in the accounting field
  • Strong presentation skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong motivational and leadership skills
  • Facilitation skills
  • Detail-oriented
  • Able to accommodate a flexible schedule including some evenings and weekends
  • Philanthropic aptitude

• Asset:
  • Entrepreneurial experience
  • Working knowledge and familiarity with web trends and interactive marketing

Project Manager

Reporting to: Project Manager

Salary Grade: Core Level

Reporting to: Operations Manager & Account Manager

Collaborates with: CEO; Creative Director; Art Director; Account Managers

Number of Direct Reports: The Production Team

Job Summary:The Project Manager oversees and administers numerous projects simultaneously.

• Critical Aspects:
  • Leadership
  • Foresight
  • Crisis Management

• Responsibilities:
  • Anticipate and respond to project changes.
  • Resolve problems in a calm, creative and timely manner.
  • Build proposed schedules and budgets for projects.
  • Create documentation around project scope.
  • Negotiate and manage contractors.
  • Plan and account for project expenditures.
  • Monitor and report on team progress.
  • Motivate the production team.
  • Define and improve work flow and suggest process improvements.
  • Make Suitcase more efficient – therefore more profitable.

• Accountabilities:
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.
  • Report project status – timing and budgets.

• Technical Proficiencies:
  • Project Management Skills
  • Proficient in Project Management software

Qualifications

• Required:
  • Post secondary education
  • Project Management Courses (eg. PMI)
  • 4+ years of experience in related capacity
  • Proven project management skills
  • Detail-oriented
  • Analytical
  • Solid understanding of financial and operational metrics
  • Strong leadership ability.
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Philanthropic aptitude

• Asset:
  • Coaching/Leadership skills
  • Project Management courses
  • Entrepreneurial experience
  • Familiar with web technologies
  • Creative agency experience
  • Internet marketing experience

Front End Interactive Developer

Reporting to: Technical Director

Collaborates with: Technical Director, Programmers. Designers

Job Summary: The Front End Interactive Developer's primary responsibility is to translate flats into functional and pixel-perfect page layouts using streamlined code.

• Critical Aspects:
  • Develop functional page layouts
  • Creativity
  • General IT Assistance

• Responsibilities:
  • Using leading edge CSS, XML, JavaScript and other required technologies to translate concept mock-ups into functional and precise page layouts.
  • Understands the basic SEO strategies and implementation techniques.
  • Ensure accurate presentation across all standard web browsers.
  • Stay current with leading web technologies and best practices.
  • Add graphical treatments where required.
  • Design RFP's, IBD books, internal project
  • Maintain current client sites
  • Utilize image optimization to ensure fast-loading pages.
  • Testing and debugging website elements.
  • Contribute creative and technological insights.
  • Create clean, reusable code.
  • Share knowledge and insights within department.

• Accountabilities:
  • clean code
  • Quality of website or email
  • web standard, cross browser compliant code
  • exact replication of flat design from designers

• Technical Proficiencies:
  • Strong knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and image processing
  • Mastery of CSS, XML, HTML, XML, and JavaScript
  • Proficiency with cross-browser, cross-platform and web-standards implementations/differences
  • Knowledge of web usability
  • Knowledge of main Search Engine Optimization (SEO) principles
  • De-bug code issues

Qualifications

• Required:
  • 2+ years of demonstrated experience with hard-coding advanced XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Excellent time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good design sense
  • Problem solving skills
  • Great attention to detail
  • Positive attitude
  • Ability to work to a deadline
  • Creative
  • Strong team player with the ability to work independently
  • Philanthropic aptitude

• Asset:
  • Experience with Eclipse, Netbeans or Dreamweaver, Javascript, Modx, php
  • Post secondary education in information technology
  • Entrepreneurial experience
  • Creative agency experience
  • Experience working with a Content Management System
  • Ability to work under pressure, and under tight deadlines

Quality Assurance Analyst

Salary Grade: Core Level

Current Incumbents: Vacant

Reporting to: Creative Director

Collaborates with: Project Manager, Interactive Designers/Developers, Senior Copywriter

The Quality Assurance Analyst works with key members involved in the project to ensure a fully functional and accurate application that meets or exceeds client expectations.

• Critical Aspects:
  • Creative
  • Detailed
  • Inquisitive

• Responsibilities:
  • Work with key project members to drive the development of test plans and test cases that encompass strategy, information architecture, design, and development requirements
  • Work with development on the creation and maintenance of functional specifications
  • Develop and execute test cases for web-based applications, including backend data verification
  • Manage application deployment to quality assurance, staging and production environments
  • Work with various departments to engineer and resolve issues
  • Interact with project managers and clients at every level for purposes of requirements gathering and understanding business goals
  • Understand client goals and points of view

• Accountabilities:
  • Create a fully functional output the matches client specs
  • Release error-free applications
  • Maintain positive client satisfaction levels
  • Develop testing schedule while adhering to project timeline/budget
  • Ensure all deliverables are in alignment with client expectations and meet Suitcases highest standards of quality

• Technical Proficiencies:
  • Some experience with HTML, Flash, php, msql, .NET, or SQL server essential

Qualifications

• Required:
  • 2+ years QA experience (from concept to deployment and on-going support) in a systems development environment
  • Experienced in developing test specifications, test cases, and scripts
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Adept at coordinating and working with the cross-functional teams of developers, designers, information architects, and project managers
  • Strong attention to detail

• Asset:
  • Entrepreneurial experience
  • Creative agency sales experience