Commercial Finance Director

• Partner with Sales, Business Development, and Product Management to shape growth strategies across key markets, channels, and customers
• Provide financial insight into demand trends, customer behavior, and market dynamics
• Lead forecasting processes for volume, revenue, and price realization across product lines and regions
• Develop models incorporating vol/mix, pricing changes, and raw material impacts
• Lead pricing strategy, including price increases, surcharges, and tracking
• Analyze and improve gross margin by product, customer, and channel
• Conduct profitability analysis at customer/account, product/sku, channel/region
• Deliver insights on key commercial and financial KPIs
• Build models to support capital investments tied to commercial growth
• Drive process improvements in forecasting, reporting, and data analytics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA preferred)
• 10–15+ years of FP&A or finance experience, with strong exposure to manufacturing or industrial environments
• Proven experience supporting Sales or Commercial functions
• Experience with complex cost structures, standard costing, and margin analysis
• Deep understanding of manufacturing financial drivers (volume, cost absorption, utilization, yield)
• Strong pricing and profitability analysis capabilities
• Advanced financial modeling and forecasting skills
• Ability to influence cross-functional senior leaders
• Experience with ERP and planning tools
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in financial planning and analysis, with a strong focus on pricing strategy, profitability analysis, and advanced financial modeling. Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive commercial growth and process improvements.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Financial Planning And Analysis (FP&A)
• Advanced Financial Modeling
• Pricing Strategy Development
• Profitability Analysis
• ERP And Planning Tools

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Financial Modeling
• Forecasting
• Cost Structures Analysis
• Margin Analysis
• Data Analytics

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication
• Executive Presentation Skills
• Influencing Senior Leaders

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree In Finance
• MBA Preferred

Industry Keywords

• Manufacturing Financial Drivers
• Gross Margin Analysis
• Demand Trends
• Market Dynamics
• Commercial Growth

Tools & Technologies

• ERP Systems
• Planning Tools