Director of Finance

Summary Description

Dynamics’ finance capability supports the organization through financial planning, reporting, treasury, tax, controls, risk management, financial readiness, and decision support. The Director of Finance provides operational leadership for these activities and ensures that financial information is complete, accurate, timely, and useful to management.

The Director of Finance will lead the company’s core finance processes and work with the company’s core accounting processes, including annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, financial close, management reporting, cash-flow planning, banking, insurance, tax coordination, fixed assets, and financial policy administration.

The role will partner with executive leadership and operating teams to translate business plans into financial plans, establish performance metrics, analyze actual results against expectations, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions that improve profitability, liquidity, operating efficiency, and long-term financial performance.

The Director of Finance will maintain a strong internal-control environment, banks, insurers, tax advisors, and other financial partners, and ensure that finance processes, documentation, approvals, reconciliations, and reporting practices are scalable and consistently executed.

Key Performance Indicators

• Timely and accurate completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial documents.
• Accuracy of management reports, forecasts, and financial analyses.
• Budget and forecast accuracy, including explanation and management of material variances.
• Financial visibility, liquidity management, working-capital performance, and treasury controls.
• Maintenance of effective internal controls, approval authorities, reconciliations, and segregation of duties.
• Tax, banking, insurance, and regulatory deliverables completed accurately and on schedule.
• Financial systems, processes, policies, and reporting improved through automation and continuous improvement.
• Operating leaders receive timely financial insight, KPI reporting, business-case support, and decision analysis.
• Finance team development, workload management, cross-training, documentation, and succession readiness.

Professional Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 10 years of progressive finance and/or accounting experience, including responsibility for financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and operational finance.
• 5 years of experience leading finance or accounting personnel, projects, or functional processes.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and practical application of accounting policies and internal controls.
• Demonstrated experience with financial statements, general ledger, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, and variance analysis.
• Experience working with external auditors, tax professionals, banks, insurance providers, and other financial partners.
• CPA, CMA, MBA, or another relevant advanced credential preferred.
• Experience in a manufacturing, technology, services, e-commerce, or other operationally complex environment preferred.

Primary Skills

• Financial accounting, general ledger management, account reconciliations, accruals, and financial statement preparation.
• Budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and financial modeling.
• Management reporting, KPI development, profitability analysis, cost analysis, and variance analysis.
• Cash management, treasury, banking relationships, liquidity planning, and working-capital management.
• Accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, expense controls, and vendor-management processes.
• Payroll-finance coordination, compensation-cost analysis, benefits-cost reporting, and labor-cost analysis.
• Inventory, fixed-asset, capital-expenditure, depreciation, and cost-accounting oversight.
• Tax coordination, audit support, insurance renewals, financial compliance, and document retention.
• Internal-control design, approval matrices, segregation of duties, fraud-risk mitigation, and policy development.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong experience with ERP, accounting, reporting, and financial-planning systems.
• Ability to develop financial models and present complex financial information clearly to executives and non-financial leaders.
• Ability to lead, coach, prioritize, and develop a high-performing finance and accounting team.

Secondary Skills

• Business partnering with operations, production, technology, sales, marketing, fulfillment, and executive leadership.
• Evaluation of contracts, pricing, margins, commercial terms, customer economics, and investment returns.
• Support for strategic planning, capital allocation, financing activities, acquisitions, due diligence, and other corporate-development initiatives as required.
• Financial systems implementation, process mapping, automation, dashboard development, and data-quality improvement.
• Project management experience, including creation of work plans, schedules, milestones, responsibilities, and status reporting.
• Ability to convert business objectives into measurable financial goals, operating plans, controls, and reporting requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication, professional judgment, confidentiality, attention to detail, and ability to work cross-functionally.
• Continuous-improvement mindset with the ability to identify inefficiencies, control gaps, financial risks, and opportunities for improved performance.