Director of Commercial Finance
Pacific Cycle - Schwinn & Mongoose
full-time
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Location: Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Owns commercial finance strategy, pricing governance, and revenue optimization. Leads budgeting and forecasting for commercial functions.
- Advises Sales, Marketing, and Product teams on financial implications of decisions. Supports deal cycles and customer negotiations.
- Oversees development of executive-level dashboards, pricing models, and performance metrics.
- Leads initiatives to enhance reporting tools, streamline forecasting, and improve margin analysis.
- Partners with senior leadership by analyzing, forecasting, and presenting key financial and operational data.
- Builds business cases that justify investments and then measure performance against targets to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Reviews monthly financial and operational results, comparing budget and prior periods with a focus on highlighting variances and opportunities to improve performance.
- Partners with sales team and accounting to support monthly close and explain notable variances in sales expenses and P&L metrics.
- Provides financial support for all deal cycles, including financial models (P&L, cash flow, tax), contract negotiation, and customer-facing issues.
- Coaches and manages the Commercial Finance team, fostering a high-performance culture through mentorship and development planning.
Requirements
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent experience (MBA preferred)
- 8-10+ years of Finance and/or Accounting experience leveraging planning financial applications
- 3+ years of leadership experience
- Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel, including Financial Modeling and PowerPoint required
- Ability to work well under pressure, thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities flexibly
- Strong team player who manages collaboratively with all stakeholders
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong quantitative and analytic skills, including advanced modeling skills
- Experience with SAP and BW is strongly preferred