Multiview Financial Software session leaders attend a client conference.Supplied
Mike Johnson was a summer intern the first time he worked for Multiview Financial Software. He returned subsequent summers while he continued his studies. What he remembers most vividly about those early days was that his colleagues really cared about each other, about their clients, and about solving the clients’ challenges. “I thought that was normal for all businesses,” says Johnson, today Multiview’s president and CEO.
Johnson realized that Multiview’s attention to client and staff satisfaction is, in fact, unusual, after spending several years at other organizations. “As it turns out, I don’t think it is that normal. Multiview really is a special place.”
Based in Ottawa, Multiview develops and provides financial software solutions that manage corporate finance and back-office operations for clients mainly in the health care and medical services field. Founded in 1990, it employs about 150 people today.
Johnson returned to Multiview in 2015 as its chief financial officer. A few years later, he was named president, and in 2019 became president and CEO.
“Even back when I first rejoined when we were 33 people, Multiview was the sum of its people,” Johnson says. “This continues. We’re really trying to foster a culture that empowers the Multiview team to thrive at both work and in life.”
Johnson is not the only employee who’s returned to Multiview. In fact, he says boomerang employees, as they are known, are common. “Even if our best person wants to get a job somewhere else, we offer to be the reference to show that we are fully behind our people,” he says. “And there may be a day where we get that phone call that they want to come back. We need to be radically committed to the best interest of our people.”
One way that Multiview puts its people first is that everyone works remotely.
“We have the luxury of being in a type of business where we don’t make physical things, we make software,” Johnson explains. “You can work from anywhere within North America and current technology allows us to be just as productive. It’s allowed us to attract great talent with very relevant and specialized skills to help all our clients go further.”
One of those talents is Kyle Dyck, who works from his home in Calgary. Dyck was hired as a junior software engineer in the summer of 2025. “I never thought I would get a remote job. I always thought it would be hybrid or in-office. So, when I heard that it was fully remote, I was very happy,” he says, adding that regular team meetings are scheduled to accommodate all the time zones from the East Coast to the West Coast.
Dyck says he appreciates being able to spend time with family as needed, working in a quiet workspace and saving time that otherwise would be spent on a commute.
“It’s smart,” he notes. “Multiview can access more top talent. They can give their employees a better work-life balance. It serves everybody, including our clients, better. It’s a very progressive way to work.”
Roughly half of Multiview’s staff work from their homes in the Ottawa area, while 25 per cent work from across Canada with the remaining 25 per cent working remotely in the United States.
“Flexibility is an undervalued benefit of an employer,” Johnson says. “I refuse to be the person to tell a parent that they can’t pick their kids up from the bus. And I’m not going to let anybody else in the company tell them that either.
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