Finance Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive corporate finance experience, with significant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, sales finance, revenue growth management, or related finance roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing a finance team supporting multiple categories, customers, channels, or geographies.
• Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, P&L management, pricing, trade spend, gross-to-net, customer profitability, margin management, and commercial forecasting.
• Experience supporting major retailers and eCommerce channels, with an understanding of Amazon, Walmart, retailer.com, retail media, fulfillment costs, customer deductions, and returns.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to turn complex data into clear business recommendations.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions and the status quo appropriately.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial planning, ERP, business intelligence, and visualization platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
• Ability to work effectively in an evolving environment, establish new processes, and balance strategic leadership with hands-on financial analysis.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or CPA.
• Experience within CPG, consumer durables, housewares, small appliances, retail, or omnichannel businesses.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual operating plan, budgeting, forecasting, and monthly performance management processes for the Cuisinart business.
• Own forecast quality across net sales, gross margin, trade spend, customer and channel performance, and key P&L drivers.
• Assess monthly results, identify performance drivers and variances, and recommend actions to address risks or accelerate performance.
• Evaluate business risks, opportunities, and trade-offs across short- and long-term priorities.
• Oversee monthly financial assessments and accrual processes in partnership with the North America Controls team.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Cuisinart leadership and provide fact-based analysis and recommendations.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, eCommerce, and Category Management on pricing, promotions, assortment, customer investments, retailer terms, retail media, innovation, and channel mix.
• Develop business cases that evaluate alternatives, assumptions, financial returns, risks, and strategic alignment.
• Build customer, SKU, category, and channel profitability views to identify opportunities to grow, improve, redesign, exit, or invest.
• Develop executive-level price, mix, volume, trade, and margin bridges to communicate performance and outlook.
• Prioritize investments and resources against the highest-value opportunities.
• Establish disciplined pricing and trade-spend evaluation processes, including promotion lift, base versus incremental volume, gross-to-net, margin rate, retailer funding, deductions, and ROI.
• Improve visibility into customer and channel economics and provide financial support for customer negotiations and commercial decisions.
• Build financial routines for Amazon, Walmart omni, retailer.com, marketplaces, drop ship, fulfillment, retail media, and digital trade.
• Evaluate eCommerce and omnichannel economics, including fulfillment costs, retailer terms, chargebacks, returns, retail media investments, and contribution margin.
• Partner with eCommerce leadership to improve profitability visibility and optimize growth and investment.
• Embed financial discipline into innovation and stage-gate processes, including analysis of volume assumptions, pricing architecture, cannibalization, gross margin, working capital, launch investment, and post-launch performance.
• Evaluate growth opportunities through business cases and scenario analysis, balancing growth, profitability, investment requirements, and strategic priorities.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Cuisinart finance team, establishing priorities, accountability, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Establish a consistent finance operating rhythm across AOP, forecasting, monthly business reviews, category reviews, and leadership decision forums.
• Standardize financial templates, KPIs, profitability methodologies, performance bridges, and decision-support tools.
• Improve and simplify financial processes and controls in partnership with the broader Finance organization.
• Partner with Finance Transformation on data requirements, reporting automation, planning tools, business intelligence, and appropriate AI use cases.
• Translate complex financial and commercial information into clear insights for executive leadership, Board, and lender presentations.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off
• 11 paid holidays
• Two paid volunteer days
• Employee product discounts
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions
• Eligibility for an annual bonus program