Director, Strategic Finance

Bisnow • New York City, NY

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About The Position

The Director, Strategic Finance leads financial planning and strategy for Bisnow, serves as a direct partner to the CEO and directly reports into finance. This role owns the forecast, the analytical case behind where the company puts its next dollar and its next hire, and the substance of the financial story Bisnow tells its investors. Bisnow reports into Axel Springer. The Director will build the monthly financial review the company presents and draft the weekly investor updates, detailing what happened, what's moving the business, what's at risk, and why it matters. The writing standard is external: polished, brief, and defensible, with minimal editing before a global investor reads it. The role also involves managing the FP&A Manager, adding senior review and capacity to a function that one person has carried to date. This is an opportunity to build the finance function of a fast-moving media business inside a global platform, with the CEO's ear and real influence over what the company does next.

Requirements

• 8–12 years in FP&A, strategic finance, or corporate finance, with clear progression in scope and ownership.
• Has owned a company-level or major-segment forecast, not a workstream inside someone else's model.
• Has forecast a lumpy, project-based revenue business — events, media, marketplace, or anything that starts each year near zero.
• Exceptional written communication: concise, structured, free of finance jargon, and built for a board, PE sponsor, or corporate parent.
• Ability to get fluent in an unfamiliar, complicated business fast, and stays curious about it beyond the numbers.
• Expert financial modeling and advanced Excel — ability to build models and assess trustworthiness of others' models quickly.
• Track record of replacing manual reporting with something scalable and documented.
• Experience managing or formally developing finance talent.
• Low ego, high accountability, and steady without process cover in a business that moves faster than the plan.

Nice To Haves

• Multi-business-line or multi-entity experience preferred.
• Ability to walk through how a number was reached when data couldn't fully support it, and why it held up.
• Presenting to one directly is a plus.
• Expect to understand the economics of every Bisnow revenue line inside 60 days.
• NetSuite or comparable ERP, Salesforce, and BI fluency welcome.
• FP&A platform selection or implementation (Cube, Adaptive, Pigment, Anaplan) is a plus.
• Working practice around AI in finance and a clear view on when tooling is the answer and when it's a distraction.
• A direct report on day one.

Responsibilities

• Own the forecast and the process that produces it — the leading indicators, historical benchmarks, and sales-input rhythm that make an unpredictable business plannable.
• Get inputs from sales leadership directly, not from a report.
• Make the analytical case for where the next dollar and the next hire go.
• Explain not just what the P&L did, but why a new event category matters, what a digital investment should return, and where the multi-year path leads.
• Validate the assumptions under the multi-year plan and build the bridge from this year to those numbers.
• Pressure-test optimism as rigorously as pessimism.
• Look at a target and say whether it's achievable in the time available.
• Surface the initiative that isn't scaling or the assumption that stopped being true before it becomes a surprise, and bring a view on what the company should stop doing — not only what it should add.
• Own planning for the business units outside the core events budget, with a closer look under the hood on digital and new initiatives, and partner with department leaders on staffing plans and the business cases behind headcount.
• Own the quality of the numbers and how they get produced. Ensure everything that leaves Finance ties to one source and stays consistent month over month, and reconciles with Accounting through close without manual bridging.
• Rebuild recurring reporting that is currently manual and lead the evaluation of dedicated FP&A tooling.
• Set the standard for the finance function, prioritizing work with the FP&A Manager, reviewing output before it goes out, raising the ceiling on what the FP&A Manager can own, and holding the analytical and writing bar for the team.
• Form a view and bring a recommendation rather than waiting to be asked for analysis.
• Be comfortable being the person in the room who says the number doesn't work.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation structure
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - this includes maternity and paternity leaves as well.
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Account
• Health Savings Account
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• 7 days paid sick leave
• 9 paid Holidays
• Referral Bonus Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed