Finance Director, Business Intelligence

Advisor Group•Scottsdale, AZ

1d•$165,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Finance, Business Intelligence reports directly to the CFO and will lead our finance data strategy, analytics and business reporting capabilities. This role is responsible for transforming fragmented legacy financial data into analysis that supports strategic decision-making across the firm. As we continue to scale and evolve, we are seeking a visionary and execution-driven leader to drive transformation of our data into actionable business insights. This Finance Director role requires a unique blend of technical data expertise, financial acumen, and project management skills. Grounded in accuracy and transparency, you will collaborate with stakeholders across finance, data strategy, technology, operations and go-to-market to build data-driven insights.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree from accredited university in Finance, Business Analytics or another related field is required.
Minimum of 8 years’ experience in FP&A, finance, or business analysis role
Minimum of 3 years’ experience managing staff
Financial services industry experience (wealth management, investment management, broker-dealer, insurance, securities) required
Advanced financial modeling and analysis skills
Solid knowledge of financial statements, corporate finance and accounting principles
Significant experience with SQL Server and Snowflake
Desire to work with an entrepreneurial, “roll-up your sleeves” environment
Highly motivated with demonstrated experience managing multiple projects in a fast paced, deadline-oriented work environment
Expert proficiency in the use of business applications, particularly Excel, Power BI and PowerPoint
Experience with financial reporting and general ledger applications tools
Experience performing analysis with large datasets
Self-starter who will anticipate challenges and work proactively to resolve issues
Ability to work with all levels of management
Must have acute attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree preferred.
FINRA licenses
CPA, CFA or CMA designations
Experience with Python Coding / Development

Responsibilities

Collaborate with senior leaders to provide financial insight, metrics and analysis that drive decisions based on data.
Develop executive and business dashboards that unify and clean disparate financial data sources.
Build scalable, sustainable and repeatable analysis and data sets that provide consistent results and insights.
Build intuitive automated reporting that drives insight into business performance by partnering with consumers of data across the business.
Support deployment of tools that automate data driven processes in finance and across the business, with a particular focus on go to market and advisor recruiting activities to ensure results transparency, territory management and process efficiency.
Close collaboration with data owners to ensure consistency in use and definition of data, contribute to data strategy and own components of data governance aligned with finance data sets.
Work closely with Technology to align data architecture and governance with business needs.
Lead and develop a team of financial professionals providing mentorship, coaching and fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
Identify pathway to solve large scale data reporting challenges in collaboration with data teams and technology to ensure ongoing progress to best in class reporting.
All other duties as assigned.