Senior Director, Finance Transformation

Position Summary:

The Director / Senior Director, Finance Transformation will lead the modernization of Conair's finance operating model. This role will convert fragmented processes, inconsistent data, manual reporting, and isolated tools into standardized, scalable, AI-enabled finance capabilities that improve speed, decision quality, accountability, and value creation. The role has enterprise-wide Finance scope, with approximately 75% of first-year capacity focused on FP&A and commercial finance before expanding further across Finance. Reporting within the CFO organization, this leader partners closely with FP&A, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, Accounting, IT, Data and Analytics, Legal, Security, and business leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a multi-year finance transformation roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities, value creation goals, and the evolving finance operating model.
• Standardize core FP&A and management reporting processes across business units and regions, including planning, forecasting, performance reviews, scenario analysis, and executive reporting.
• Redesign finance workflows to eliminate low-value activity, clarify ownership and controls, reduce manual effort, and improve cycle time and data quality.
• Lead the design and deployment of scalable planning, reporting, profitability, workflow, and analytics capabilities in partnership with IT and data teams.
• Establish common data definitions, hierarchies, dimensions, governance, and reconciliation standards for management reporting and decision support.
• Build practical automation and AI use cases for forecasting, variance analysis, management commentary, scenario modeling, anomaly detection, reconciliations, and self-service insight.
• Create and prioritize a finance automation pipeline based on business value, feasibility, control requirements, and user adoption.
• Partner with Commercial Finance to develop reusable profitability engines covering brands, categories, channels, customers, and SKUs.
• Own transformation governance, including milestones, dependencies, benefits tracking, risks, decision rights, and executive steering updates.
• Lead change management and adoption by defining new roles, training users, establishing process ownership, and measuring sustained use and outcomes.
• Create a finance transformation center of excellence that provides standards, methods, templates, and delivery support without becoming an administrative project office.
• Build internal capability so finance teams can use new data, tools, automation, and AI responsibly and independently.
• Establish a consistent cost-benefit analysis methodology for technology, data, automation, and process solutions, including implementation and recurring costs, capacity released, risk reduction, payback period, ROI, and ownership of realized benefits.
• Translate finance problems into clear requirements, process designs, minimum viable products, testing plans, acceptance criteria, and scalable operating routines.
• Clarify delivery accountability across Finance, internal IT and Data teams, and external vendors. This role owns finance requirements, process design, user acceptance testing, adoption, and value realization; technical teams or vendors own configuration, development, integration, and technical quality assurance.
• Create and maintain a centralized Finance Transformation repository for approved tools, models, process documentation, data definitions, training materials, FAQs, release notes, and support ownership.
• Focus approximately 75% of first-year capacity on FP&A and commercial finance priorities while building standards and a roadmap that extend across the broader Finance organization.

First 12 to 18 Month Outcomes:

• Complete a current-state diagnostic of finance processes, reports, data pain points, tools, controls, capability gaps, and manual work intensity.
• Create an approved transformation roadmap that separates quick wins from foundational builds and ties each initiative to measurable business value.
• Publish a common finance calendar, reporting taxonomy, KPI dictionary, and decision-rights model for core FP&A and commercial finance routines.
• Deliver standardized profitability tools for SKU, customer, category, and channel economics.
• Launch controlled AI and automation pilots for variance analysis, forecast-driver analysis, Board reporting support, and recurring report production.
• Implement governance for pricing and trade-spend evaluation, including ownership, refresh cadence, approval logic, and post-event measurement.
• Establish the centralized repository and adoption routines so finance teams can find, learn, use, and sustain approved tools without relying on a small group of experts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or a related field; MBA, CPA, CMA, or relevant transformation credential preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive experience across finance, FP&A, finance transformation, enterprise performance management, business intelligence, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success leading complex finance transformation programs from design through implementation, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Hands-on understanding of planning, forecasting, management reporting, profitability analysis, data models, workflow design, and finance controls.
• Experience with enterprise planning, ERP, data visualization, automation, or AI-enabled finance solutions, such as SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Microsoft Power Platform, or comparable platforms.
• Ability to translate business problems into practical process, data, and technology solutions while balancing speed, scalability, controls, and user experience.
• Experience in a global, multi-brand, multi-channel consumer products, retail, manufacturing, or similarly complex environment preferred.
• Strong program leadership, stakeholder management, change leadership, and executive communication skills.
• 10+ years of progressive experience across finance, FP&A, commercial analytics, finance transformation, consulting, finance systems, or business transformation. Senior Director-level candidates should typically bring 12+ years and demonstrated enterprise leadership.
• Experience developing business cases and cost-benefit analyses using ROI, payback period, implementation and run costs, capacity released, control improvement, and value realization.
• Builder with strong finance judgment, not solely a systems project manager; able to translate ambiguous finance problems into clear requirements, MVP builds, controlled pilots, and scalable routines.
• Pragmatic technologist who can distinguish high-value AI and automation from low-value complexity or technology-driven solutions without a clear business case.
• Strong influencer who can align senior stakeholders through structured problem solving, clear communication, and credibility rather than relying only on formal authority.

Compensation:

Conair has established a good faith salary range for this position. The salary range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation for the role at the time of posting and is based on a variety of factors including business needs, market conditions, candidate qualifications, experience, skills, and internal equity. The anticipated base salary range for this position is $176k-$264k annually.

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible to participate in Conair's annual bonus program. Conair also offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage; short- and long-term disability insurance; paid parental leave; paid time off; 11 paid holidays; two paid volunteer days; employee product discounts; and a 401(k) plan with employer contributions. Eligibility for certain benefits may vary based on employment status and plan terms.

Environmental Factors:

This role is performed in a professional office environment and requires prolonged periods of sitting, working on a computer, and using standard office equipment. The position follows Conair's hybrid work model, requiring on-site presence at the Stamford, CT office Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.

About Conair:

Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care and small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes & accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories.

Conair has always been driven by a passion for innovation; it’s part of the Company’s DNA. Trendsetting products have been invented by Conair since its inception in 1959, keeping the Company always a step ahead of the competition. The company's domestic and international divisions offer a diversified mix of consumer and professional products sold in over 120 countries. The Family of Conair brands includes CONAIR, Cuisinart, BabylissPRO, Scünci , TRAVELSMART by CONAIR, and Waring.

Conair’s passion for innovation gets stronger with each decade, as evidenced by the over 1,000 patents the Company has obtained worldwide. Today, Conair and its brands are names known throughout the world. Conair continues to introduce its brands to new and emerging markets, year after year. By the 1990s, most households in America owned at least one Conair product. Today many have more than one, and the Company’s goal is to ensure that every household in the world eventually owns one of our products.

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