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Position Summary:
The Senior Director, Finance, Cuisinart is the lead financial business partner to the Cuisinart business and leads the Cuisinart commercial finance organization. Reporting to the VP of FP&A with a dotted line to the SVP/President of Cuisinart, this role is responsible for financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, performance management, forecasting, and strategic decision support.
The Senior Director partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, eCommerce, Category Management, and Finance leadership to translate market, category, customer, channel, pricing, trade spend, innovation, and operational drivers into clear financial insights and actions that support profitable growth, gross margin, EBITDA, cash generation, and long-term business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning, Forecasting and Performance Management
- 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 financial results, identify key drivers and variances versus plan and forecast, and recommend actions to accelerate performance or address risks.
- Provide an objective view of business risks and opportunities, evaluating trade-offs across short- and long-term business priorities.
- Oversee monthly financial assessments and accrual processes in partnership with the North America Controls team.
Commercial Finance and Decision Support
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to Cuisinart leadership, providing fact-based analysis and recommendations to support business decisions.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, eCommerce, and Category Management on pricing, promotions, assortment, customer investments, retailer terms, retail media, innovation, and channel mix decisions.
- Develop robust business cases that evaluate alternatives, key 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 clearly communicate business performance and outlook.
- Ensure investments and resources are prioritized against the highest-value opportunities.
Pricing, Trade Spend and Customer Economics
- 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.
- Strengthen visibility into customer and channel economics to improve investment decisions and profitability.
- Provide financial insight and support for key customer negotiations and commercial decisions.
eCommerce and Omnichannel Finance
- Build strong financial routines for Amazon, Walmart omni, retailer.com, marketplaces, drop ship, fulfillment, retail media, and digital trade.
- Evaluate channel economics, including fulfillment costs, retailer terms, chargebacks, returns, retail media investments, and contribution margin.
- Partner with eCommerce leadership to improve visibility into profitability and identify opportunities to optimize growth and investment.
Innovation and Growth
- Embed financial discipline into the innovation and stage-gate process, including volume assumptions, pricing architecture, cannibalization, gross margin, working capital, launch investment, and post-launch performance.
- Evaluate growth opportunities through rigorous business cases and scenario analysis.
- Partner with business leaders to balance growth, profitability, investment requirements, and long-term strategic priorities.
Leadership and Operating Excellence
- Lead, coach, and develop the Cuisinart finance team, establishing clear 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.
- Drive continuous improvement and simplification of 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.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive corporate finance experience, with significant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, sales finance, revenue growth management, or related finance roles.
- Experience within CPG, consumer durables, housewares, small appliances, retail, or omnichannel businesses strongly preferred.
- 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 with the ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
- Strong executive communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to appropriately challenge assumptions and the status quo.
- 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 operate effectively in an evolving environment, establish new processes, and balance strategic leadership with hands-on financial analysis.
Compensation:
Conair has established a good faith salary range for this position. The salary range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation for the role at the time of posting and is based on a variety of factors including business needs, market conditions, candidate qualifications, experience, skills, and internal equity. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $176k-$264k annually.
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to participate in Conair's annual bonus program. Conair also offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage; short- and long-term disability insurance; paid parental leave; paid time off; 11 paid holidays; two paid volunteer days; employee product discounts; and a 401(k) plan with employer contributions. Eligibility for certain benefits may vary based on employment status and plan terms.
Environmental Factors:
This role is performed in a professional office environment and requires prolonged periods of sitting, working on a computer, and using standard office equipment. The position follows Conair's hybrid work model, requiring on-site presence at the Stamford, CT office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.
About Conair:
Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care and small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes & accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories.
Conair has always been driven by a passion for innovation; it's part of the Company's DNA. Trendsetting products have been invented by Conair since its inception in 1959, keeping the Company always a step ahead of the competition. The company's domestic and international divisions offer a diversified mix of consumer and professional products sold in over 120 countries. The Family of Conair brands includes CONAIR, Cuisinart, BabylissPRO, Scünci , TRAVELSMART by CONAIR, and Waring.
Conair's passion for innovation gets stronger with each decade, as evidenced by the over 1,000 patents the Company has obtained worldwide. Today, Conair and its brands are names known throughout the world. Conair continues to introduce its brands to new and emerging markets, year after year. By the 1990s, most households in America owned at least one Conair product. Today many have more than one, and the Company's goal is to ensure that every household in the world eventually owns one of our products.
Conair creates confidence and connection
Are you passionate about this opportunity but worried that you don't have 100% of the experience we're looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Conair!
Position Summary:
The Senior Director, Finance, Cuisinart is the lead financial business partner to the Cuisinart business and leads the Cuisinart commercial finance organization. Reporting to the VP of FP&A with a dotted line to the SVP/President of Cuisinart, this role is responsible for financial planning and analysis, commercial finance, performance management, forecasting, and strategic decision support.
The Senior Director partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Product, eCommerce, Category Management, and Finance leadership to translate market, category, customer, channel, pricing, trade spend, innovation, and operational drivers into clear financial insights and actions that support profitable growth, gross margin, EBITDA, cash generation, and long-term business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning, Forecasting and Performance Management
- 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 financial results, identify key drivers and variances versus plan and forecast, and recommend actions to accelerate performance or address risks.
- Provide an objective view of business risks and opportunities, evaluating trade-offs across short- and long-term business priorities.
- Oversee monthly financial assessments and accrual processes in partnership with the North America Controls team.
Commercial Finance and Decision Support
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to Cuisinart leadership, providing fact-based analysis and recommendations to support business decisions.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product, eCommerce, and Category Management on pricing, promotions, assortment, customer investments, retailer terms, retail media, innovation, and channel mix decisions.
- Develop robust business cases that evaluate alternatives, key 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 clearly communicate business performance and outlook.
- Ensure investments and resources are prioritized against the highest-value opportunities.
Pricing, Trade Spend and Customer Economics
- 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.
- Strengthen visibility into customer and channel economics to improve investment decisions and profitability.
- Provide financial insight and support for key customer negotiations and commercial decisions.
eCommerce and Omnichannel Finance
- Build strong financial routines for Amazon, Walmart omni, retailer.com, marketplaces, drop ship, fulfillment, retail media, and digital trade.
- Evaluate channel economics, including fulfillment costs, retailer terms, chargebacks, returns, retail media investments, and contribution margin.
- Partner with eCommerce leadership to improve visibility into profitability and identify opportunities to optimize growth and investment.
Innovation and Growth
- Embed financial discipline into the innovation and stage-gate process, including volume assumptions, pricing architecture, cannibalization, gross margin, working capital, launch investment, and post-launch performance.
- Evaluate growth opportunities through rigorous business cases and scenario analysis.
- Partner with business leaders to balance growth, profitability, investment requirements, and long-term strategic priorities.
Leadership and Operating Excellence
- Lead, coach, and develop the Cuisinart finance team, establishing clear 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.
- Drive continuous improvement and simplification of 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.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA or CPA preferred.
- 12+ years of progressive corporate finance experience, with significant experience in FP&A, commercial finance, sales finance, revenue growth management, or related finance roles.
- Experience within CPG, consumer durables, housewares, small appliances, retail, or omnichannel businesses strongly preferred.
- 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 with the ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
- Strong executive communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to appropriately challenge assumptions and the status quo.
- 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 operate effectively in an evolving environment, establish new processes, and balance strategic leadership with hands-on financial analysis.
Compensation:
Conair has established a good faith salary range for this position. The salary range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation for the role at the time of posting and is based on a variety of factors including business needs, market conditions, candidate qualifications, experience, skills, and internal equity. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $176k-$264k annually.
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to participate in Conair's annual bonus program. Conair also offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage; short- and long-term disability insurance; paid parental leave; paid time off; 11 paid holidays; two paid volunteer days; employee product discounts; and a 401(k) plan with employer contributions. Eligibility for certain benefits may vary based on employment status and plan terms.
Environmental Factors:
This role is performed in a professional office environment and requires prolonged periods of sitting, working on a computer, and using standard office equipment. The position follows Conair's hybrid work model, requiring on-site presence at the Stamford, CT office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.
About Conair:
Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care and small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes & accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories.
Conair has always been driven by a passion for innovation; it's part of the Company's DNA. Trendsetting products have been invented by Conair since its inception in 1959, keeping the Company always a step ahead of the competition. The company's domestic and international divisions offer a diversified mix of consumer and professional products sold in over 120 countries. The Family of Conair brands includes CONAIR, Cuisinart, BabylissPRO, Scünci , TRAVELSMART by CONAIR, and Waring.
Conair's passion for innovation gets stronger with each decade, as evidenced by the over 1,000 patents the Company has obtained worldwide. Today, Conair and its brands are names known throughout the world. Conair continues to introduce its brands to new and emerging markets, year after year. By the 1990s, most households in America owned at least one Conair product. Today many have more than one, and the Company's goal is to ensure that every household in the world eventually owns one of our products.
Conair creates confidence and connection
Are you passionate about this opportunity but worried that you don't have 100% of the experience we're looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Conair!
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in commercial finance director jobs.
- 7 or more years of progressive finance experience with commercial or business partnering focus
- Advanced financial modeling and FP&A skills using Excel or dedicated planning tools
- Experience presenting financial analysis and recommendations to senior leadership and board level
- CPA, CFA, CMA, or equivalent accounting or finance certification strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience owning P&L analysis, pricing strategy, or margin management
- Proficiency with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms
Tips for Your Commercial Finance Director Job Search
Quantify commercial impact on your resume
Hiring managers for this role want to see revenue influenced, margin improvements driven, and cost savings delivered. Replace vague descriptions of responsibilities with specific outcomes tied to commercial decisions you owned, using dollar values or percentage improvements where possible.
Tailor your resume to each sector
A commercial finance director resume that works in FMCG won't land the same way in SaaS or healthcare. Adjust your language to mirror the financial metrics and business model of each target industry, whether that's gross margin, ARR, or patient revenue.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists commercial finance director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies at a commercial inflection point
Businesses launching new product lines, entering new markets, or integrating acquisitions hire commercial finance directors most urgently. Filter your search toward companies in those phases, because the role is created by business need, not routine backfill.
Prepare a commercial challenge case study for interviews
Many interview processes for this role include a business case or commercial scenario. Prepare a real example where your financial analysis directly shaped a go-to-market, pricing, or investment decision, and be ready to walk through your reasoning step by step.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
At director level, the reporting line, budget authority, and whether the role has a seat on the leadership team matter as much as base pay. Clarify these before accepting an offer, since scope determines your leverage for the next move.
Commercial Finance Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most commercial finance directors?
AECOM, Sodexo, and Fitch are hiring the most commercial finance directors right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially active in sectors undergoing rapid commercial expansion or post-merger integration.
How many commercial finance director jobs are remote?
About 89% of commercial finance director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the seniority and cross-functional nature of the role. FP&A-heavy and business partnering sub-functions tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles tied to operational or plant finance typically require on-site presence.
How do you become a commercial finance director?
Most commercial finance directors build their path through progressive finance business partner or FP&A roles, developing strong commercial acumen alongside technical financial skills. Getting exposure to revenue-side decisions, such as pricing, contract negotiation, or go-to-market planning, distinguishes candidates from those with purely accounting backgrounds. A relevant professional certification and experience presenting to executive stakeholders accelerate the transition into director-level roles.
Can you get hired as a commercial finance director without direct director experience?
Yes, candidates who have operated at a senior manager or head-of level with significant commercial responsibility are frequently hired into first director roles, particularly at mid-market companies. The key is demonstrating that you've influenced commercial outcomes, not just reported on them. Gaps in title are less disqualifying than gaps in business impact or stakeholder engagement.
What does the commercial finance director interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages: an initial screening with HR or a talent partner, a competency-based interview with the CFO or VP of Finance, a technical or commercial case study presentation, and a final panel with cross-functional leaders such as the CEO, COO, or commercial director. The case study stage is where most candidates are differentiated, so preparation on real commercial scenarios is essential.
Where can I find and apply to commercial finance director jobs?
You can find and apply to commercial finance director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and target industry, and apply directly to each listing without being redirected to another platform.
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