Chief of Staff

Who We Are At KEV, we help school districts eliminate the school finance blind spot. Our platform gives district finance teams real-time visibility and traceability into every dollar collected at the school level - whether it's cash, cheque, or digital. From field trips to fundraisers, we help them manage every dollar with confidence. More than 27,000 schools across North America trust KEV to manage over $8 billion annually. By unifying payments, accounting, and reporting, KEV simplifies life for bookkeepers, builds trust with parents, and gives finance leaders the oversight their current systems cannot. It's how we help schools stay compliant, reduce risk, and focus on what matters most, student success. Backed by Five Arrows, the PE arm of Rothschild & Co., KEV is investing more than ever to support K-12 in a world of tighter budgets, rising scrutiny, and fast-changing tech. We're headquartered in Toronto, with offices across North America. If you're excited by the idea of building tech that protects schools, empowers finance teams, and improves education through better systems, KEV is the place for you. This role is for an active vacancy. About the role KEV Group is a $100M SaaS and payments company serving schools and districts, on a path to $300M through organic growth and acquisitions. We're looking for a Chief of Staff to the CEO to make sure the executive team works on the right things and gets them done. You'll report to our CEO, Bram Belzberg. You'll own the company's rhythm of decisions: executive alignment, OKRs and the leadership operating cadence. Our CFO owns the rhythm of numbers: plan, budget and forecast. Together, you'll run one operating system. This is a senior operating role, not an executive assistant or project coordinator role. You'll have no large team, but you will have the CEO's mandate to set the leadership agenda, track commitments to closure and escalate when they slip. What you'll own Executive alignment and OKRs Turn the CEO's priorities into company OKRs, with clear owners, measures and links to our strategic pillars. Track OKRs and cross-functional dependencies; bring status to the monthly business review. Lead the quarterly OKR reset, working with the CFO so that OKRs and the budget are agreed together. Leadership operating cadence Run the weekly CEO staff meeting: agenda, pre-reads, decisions and the action log. Own the quarterly executive offsite and the annual strategy and three-year planning cycle. Keep one integrated leadership calendar, including the CFO's financial cycle, the CCO's GTM–R&D operating reviews and the CHRO's talent and performance cycles. Close actions on time, and escalate to the CEO when commitments slip. Board and governance Assemble the quarterly board pack and keep it on schedule. The CFO team owns the financials; Legal owns statutory governance. Track board and executive actions to closure; improve how decisions are made and recorded. Strategic projects Lead two or three CEO-sponsored initiatives at a time, such as pricing, entering an adjacent market or redesigning the customer journey. Define scope, owners and milestones, then hand finished work to a line leader. M&A coordination Run the weekly M&A pipeline review with the CEO, Corporate Development, Finance, Legal and R&D. Keep the deal decision log and board approval timeline; coordinate integration handoffs. <sp