We’re recruiting a Director, Finance for a fast-growing company in Dallas seeking a hands-on finance leader to own the annual budgeting process, strengthen forecasting discipline, and rebuild the company’s enterprise financial model.

• Location: Dallas, TX or New York, NY
• Salary: $175k-$250k + bonus

Responsibilities:

• Own the long-range planning and annual budgeting process from initial kickoff through final Board presentation, establishing clear timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Partner with Corporate Strategy and finance leaders across the organization to translate top-down revenue and margin targets into detailed functional budgets, operating plans, and staffing requirements.
• Lead the redesign and rebuild of the enterprise forecasting model, with a particular focus on strengthening revenue forecasting and incorporating key business drivers.
• Build a durable, scalable financial model that produces consistent, decision-ready outputs and reduces reliance on manual or one-off adjustments.
• Establish standardized forecasting methodologies, processes, and best practices across the Finance & Strategy organization.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and process discipline by developing repeatable frameworks that enable the broader team to operate with greater independence.
• Manage and develop a small finance team by setting priorities, reviewing work product, providing coaching, and ensuring the financial model remains accurate and current between planning cycles.
• Present budget recommendations, forecasting outputs, and financial methodologies to the CFO and executive leadership team.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve financial planning, reporting, modeling, and workflows through technology, automation, and AI.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or a similar financial planning role.
• At least 2 years of direct ownership of an annual budgeting or forecasting process from start to finish.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, including the ability to build and restructure three-statement financial models.
• Proven experience translating high-level revenue growth and margin targets into detailed, bottoms-up operating and functional plans.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, forecasting methodologies, business drivers, and financial modeling best practices.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly to senior executives.
• Prior people management experience or demonstrated readiness to manage and develop direct reports.
• Experience with financial systems such as NetSuite and reporting/analytics platforms such as Power BI.
• Experience in a high-growth or private equity-backed environment is a plus.
• Experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude to improve financial workflows and productivity is a plus.

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