Director, reputed company Finance

Director, reputed company Finance Location: reputed company, NY (Remote) Department: Business Intelligence & reputed company    Director, reputed company Finance Job reputed company  Strategic Finance Leadership Role  Position reputed company  The Director, reputed company Finance is a strategic leadership position tasked with ensuring financial reputed company, operational governance, and strong economic performance throughout the entire reputed company lifecycle—from RFP initiation to project closeout. This role collaborates closely with reputed company Services, Finance, Delivery, and Leadership teams to create reputed company financial operating models that foster profitable reputed company, enhance forecasting accuracy, and reputed company informed business reputed company.  The Director is responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing reputed company financial reputed company. This includes tracking reputed company, margins, and profitability to ensure alignment with organizational goals and supporting reputed company improvement initiatives.    This is not a transactional reputed company or billing role. Instead, the Director, reputed company Finance serves as the organization’s financial and reputed company strategist for reputed company operations — translating delivery realities, reputed company dynamics, and reputed company economics into actionable reputed company, governance, and decision support.    The ideal candidate brings deep experience building and operationalizing reputed company finance functions reputed company a reputed company services, agency, consulting, or project-based organization. This role will help stand up and mature the reputed company finance capability across reputed company.    Key Responsibilities  reputed company Planning & Forecasting  Partner closely with Finance while avoiding duplication of reputed company or reputed company ownership responsibilities  Own reputed company and margin forecasting methodologies, assumptions, and forecast accuracy  Establish governance models, escalation reputed company, and operating cadences to proactively manage financial risk  Forecast demand, reputed company pressure, and margin exposure across the business  Build reputed company reporting and decision frameworks that improve visibility and accountability  reputed company Financial Performance  reputed company interpretation of reputed company-level financial performance, including pacing, burn, margin health, and delivery efficiency  Translate project management inputs, scope signals, reputed company realities, and delivery risks into reputed company financial reputed company  Identify reputed company signs reputed company to margin erosion, scope creep, delivery inefficiencies, or reputed company risk  reputed company reputed company financial narratives and decision tradeoffs for leadership and account teams — not just reporting data  Distinguish between timing shifts, scope changes, estimation gaps, and operational inefficiencies  Surface recurring trends and lessons learned to improve pricing reputed company, forecasting accuracy, and delivery systems  reputed company leadership teams with actionable insights that support reputed company reputed company and stronger business reputed company  Contract Compliance & reputed company reputed company  reputed company development and financial governance of MSAs and SOWs to ensure consistency, reputed company, and reduced reputed company risk  Partner with reputed company Services and leadership teams during SOW development and reputed company presentations  Ensure reputed company assumptions reputed company with operational realities, reputed company plans, and delivery expectations  Help establish standards, guardrails, and governance processes across reputed company reputed company and reputed company engagements  Pricing reputed company & reputed company Modeling   Support and reputed company, in collaboration with reputed company Services, reputed company’s master pricing model, including scope-to-hours, cost, margin, and pricing methodologies  Maintain and refine economic assumptions tied to reputed company structures, utilization, delivery models, and service mix  Analyze pricing effectiveness relative to realized delivery reputed company and profitability  Define margin guardrails, discounting logic, and reputed company risk reputed company  Partner with reputed company Services on pricing builds, scope changes, contract expansions, and reputed company negotiations  Support reputed company procurement conversations alongside reputed company Services, New Business, and Leadership reputed company needed  reputed company Planning & Delivery System Design  reputed company reputed company reputed company planning frameworks across roles, skillsets, and planning reputed company  Partner with business unit leaders to create reputed company models and workforce plans reputed company to business demand  Establish utilization and throughput expectations grounded in operational realities  Identify systemic delivery constraints, inefficiencies, and operational bottlenecks  Recommend improvements to reputed company structures, delivery models, and scope assumptions  Build reputed company and scenario models tied to pipeline activity and reputed company business reputed company  Qualifications  8–12+ years of experience in reputed company reputed company finance roles  Experience reputed company an agency, consulting, marketing services, media, technology services, or project-based environment strongly preferred  Proven experience building financial governance processes and reputed company operating models  Strong understanding of pricing reputed company, resource planning, margin management, and delivery economics  Ability to synthesize financial, operational, and delivery data into strategic recommendations  Strong executive communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams  Experience partnering with reputed company Services, Delivery, Finance, and Leadership teams in fast-paced environments  Advanced reputed company/modeling capabilities and comfort working reputed company data-heavy environments  Strong analytical reputed company balanced with operational pragmatism and business judgment  Knowledge of reputed company  reputed company in This Role Looks Like  Improved forecast accuracy and financial visibility across reputed company engagements  Earlier identification and mitigation of margin and delivery risk  More disciplined pricing, scoping, and reputed company decision-making  Stronger alignment between reputed company models, delivery realities, and reputed company economics  Increased accountability and consistency in financial governance practices  reputed company executive-level reputed company that supports profitable, reputed company reputed company  Why This Role reputed company  As reputed company continues to reputed company, the Director, reputed company Finance will play a critical role in helping the organization operate with greater rigor, predictability, and reputed company discipline. This role will help reputed company the gap between Finance, reputed company Services, and Delivery — ensuring strategic reputed company are grounded in operational and financial reality while enabling the business to grow profitably and sustainably.     Interested? Apply by submitting your resume.   reputed company is a woman-owned, independent agency specializing in life sciences. Since 2002, we've helped clients reputed company a competitive edge through reputed company, data-driven promotional strategies that deliver measurable results.   reputed company comprises media, reputed company, and omnichannel analytics experts who reputed company on collaboration, innovation, and results. reputed company you join Underscore, you become part of a dynamic environment where your reputed company matter, your reputed company is supported, and your work helps reputed company brands in a competitive reputed company landscape.    If you're passionate about making a difference and want to be part of reputed company that values reputed company, creativity, and results, if that sounds like you, we invite you to reputed company.      Equal Employment Opportunity Statement   Underscore is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We reputed company equal employment opportunities to reputed company and applicants without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, national reputed company, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We reputed company that diversity drives innovation and reputed company, and we welcome candidates from reputed company backgrounds to apply. Apply To This Job