Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HALO Branded Solutions is a leader in the branded merchandise industry, seeking a highly motivated and analytically rigorous Director of Strategic Finance. This role involves leading financial analysis and decision support for enterprise transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment of financial models with strategic priorities across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial analysis and decision support for enterprise transformation initiatives and other strategic priorities
- Partner with the VP of FP&A and senior leaders to evaluate opportunities that drive growth, improve returns, and strengthen capital discipline
- Help ensure initiatives are supported by clear financial logic, realistic assumptions, and measurable performance expectations
- Own the financial modeling, underlying assumptions, and business logic supporting transformation initiatives across the company; leveraging broader FP&A department SME support
- Build and maintain business cases, scenario analyses, sensitivity models, and reforecasting frameworks as initiatives evolve
- Assess risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to support informed decision-making and timely course correction
- Translate operational plans into financially sound models that can be used to guide execution and measure impact
- Act as a key finance partner to business leaders, operations partners, and FP&A subject matter experts to ensure broader thinking and action plans align with financial objectives
- Influence stakeholders across functions to align strategic priorities, implementation plans, and financial expectations
- Facilitate productive conversations across senior leadership by bringing structure, clarity, and analytical rigor to complex issues
- Support alignment between initiative owners and finance partners as assumptions change, risks emerge, or priorities shift
- Partner closely with Technology leadership and finance stakeholders to support disciplined investment planning for tech-enabled initiatives
- Help ensure the broader technology roadmap is aligned with financial plans, expected business outcomes, and enterprise priorities
- Provide visibility into how spend is expected to flow across operating expense, capital investment, and non-recurring costs
- Support prioritization and financial evaluation of major investments by connecting roadmap decisions to business cases and expected returns
- Provide clear, executive-ready reporting and insights on initiative performance, evolving assumptions, and financial implications
- Monitor actual results against plan and recommend actions to address gaps, risks, and emerging opportunities
- Distill complex financial and operational dynamics into concise recommendations that drive alignment and action
- Support senior leadership discussions with practical analysis, strong narrative framing, and thoughtful sensitivity analysis
- Serve as a key leader within FP&A and Accounting, initially as an individual contributor with the opportunity to build and lead a small team as needs evolve
- Establish high standards for modeling rigor, analytical quality, and communication
- Create a culture of accountability, curiosity, partnership, and continuous improvement
- Help strengthen HALO’s strategic finance capabilities by elevating how the organization evaluates investments, tracks outcomes, and makes decisions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred
- 8+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, corporate finance, management consulting, transformation, or related analytical roles
- Exceptional financial modeling skills, including scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, forecasting, and business case development
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior executives and cross-functional leaders on high-priority strategic and operational issues
- Strong business judgment and comfort working with broad assumptions, imperfect information, and evolving priorities
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex topics in clear, practical terms
- Proven ability to influence across functions without relying solely on formal authority
- Experience partnering on technology-related investments, enterprise initiatives, or cross-functional transformation efforts preferred
- Experience leading or developing analysts and creating strong analytical work product within a high-expectation environment preferred
- A consulting background, in-house strategic finance background, or a combination of both can be successful in this role, provided the candidate brings outstanding modeling depth and stakeholder influence
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus, based on company performance, at a target of up to 15-20% of base salary
- Nationwide coverage for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- Additional Voluntary Benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Hybrid work options
- Flexible schedules that help you balance professional and personal demands
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