Senior Finance Manager

Role Description

The Senior Finance Manager – Trade serves as a strategic finance partner to DFC’s dynamic and evolving Trade channel, providing financial leadership that supports sustained growth and profitability. This role partners closely with the SVP Trade, senior sales leaders, and the Trade Leadership Team, translating financial performance into actionable, enterprise-level insights.

This leader plays a critical role in shaping Trade channel strategy by translating financial data into actionable insights, influencing investment decisions, and enabling sustained top and bottom-line growth across brands, customers, and product portfolios.

This role operates as a key member of the FP&A leadership team and is deeply embedded in Trade channel planning, execution, and performance management. Success requires the ability to operate at both a strategic and operational level, balancing long-range planning with near-term execution while maintaining strong partnerships across Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Continuously mature the culture of partnership and advisory relationship between Finance and our Trade channel.
• Act as a trusted thought partner to the SVP Trade, VP Luxury, and Trade senior leadership, providing insight that informs pricing, investment, and growth decisions.
• Partner closely with senior sales executives to enable profitable growth across brands, customers, and programs.
• Lead financial oversight for the Trade channel, including AOP, LRP, and strategic initiatives aligned to functional and organizational priorities.
• Share accountability for Trade channel sales and profit KPIs, ensuring transparency and rigor in performance management.
• Drive continuous improvement of Trade channel analytics, forecasting, and management reporting to elevate decision quality and speed.
• Oversee Trade Builder P&L processes to ensure timely, accurate, and actionable financial insights.
• Provides Trade channel finance leadership for pre-diligence, due diligence and integration opportunities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop direct report(s), building finance capabilities aligned to long-term business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required.
• 5 – 10 years of progressive financial leadership experience, preferably in FP&A or commercial finance.
• MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred.
• Strong SAP and BI reporting experience highly desired.

Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise mindset
• Strong commercial acumen
• Ability to influence senior leaders
• Executive-level communication
• Sound judgment
• High ethical standards
• Commitment to developing talent

Benefits

• Recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Comprehensive benefit plans; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• LinkedIn Learning access; internal opportunities to work on projects cross-company.
• Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups; Paid volunteer day annually; Employees share their time, skills and talent with charities and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the globe.