Director, Strategic Finance
Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland. We serve the CRE industry through award-winning news and publications, renowned events, wide-ranging marketing services, specialized recruitment solutions, and intelligent sales enablement tools. With 1.7M+ subscribers and 400+ events annually across 47 markets, we inform, connect, and create opportunities that turn into deals.
The Director, Strategic Finance leads financial planning and strategy for Bisnow, serves as a direct partner to the CEO, and owns the forecast, the analytical case behind where the company puts its next dollar and hire, and the financial story Bisnow tells its investors. You'll build the monthly financial review the company presents and draft the weekly investor updates—polished, brief, and defensible, with minimal editing before a global investor reads it. You'll also manage our FP&A Manager, adding senior review and capacity to a function that one person has carried to date.
Responsibilities
- Own the forecast and the process that produces it—leading indicators, historical benchmarks, and sales-input rhythm that make an unpredictable business plannable.
- Make the analytical case for where the next dollar and hire go, explaining not just what the P&L did, but why a new event category matters, what a digital investment should return, and where the multi-year path leads.
- Validate the assumptions under the multi-year plan and build the bridge from this year to those numbers. Pressure-test optimism as rigorously as pessimism.
- Surface initiatives that aren't scaling or assumptions that stopped being true before they become surprises, and recommend what the company should stop doing—not only what it should add.
- Own planning for business units outside the core events budget, with a closer look under the hood on digital and new initiatives, and partner with department leaders on staffing plans and headcount business cases.
- Own the quality of the numbers and how they get produced. Ensure everything that leaves Finance ties to one source, stays consistent month over month, and reconciles with Accounting through close without manual bridging. Rebuild manual reporting and lead the evaluation of dedicated FP&A tooling.
- Set the standard for the function: prioritize work with the FP&A Manager, review output, raise the ceiling on what he can own, and hold the analytical and writing bar for the team.
Requirements
- 8-12 years in FP&A, strategic finance, or corporate finance, with clear progression in scope and ownership. Has owned a company-level or major-segment forecast, not a workstream inside someone else's model.
- Multi-business-line or multi-entity experience preferred. Has forecast a lumpy, project-based revenue business—events, media, marketplace, or anything that starts each year near zero.
- Exceptional written communication: concise, structured, free of finance jargon, and built for a board, PE sponsor, or corporate parent.
- Gets fluent in an unfamiliar, complicated business fast, and stays curious about it beyond the numbers. Expect to understand the economics of every Bisnow revenue line inside 60 days.
- Expert financial modeling and advanced Excel—can build it yourself and quickly assess whether someone else's model is trustworthy.
- Track record of replacing manual reporting with something scalable and documented. FP&A platform selection or implementation (Cube, Adaptive, Pigment, Anaplan) is a plus.
- Experience managing or formally developing finance talent. You'll have a direct report on day one.
- Forms a view and brings a recommendation rather than waiting to be asked for analysis. Comfortable being the person in the room who says the number doesn't work.
- Low ego, high accountability, and steady without process cover in a business that moves faster than the plan.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation structure
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance (includes maternity and paternity leaves)
- 401K
- Flexible Spending Account
- Dependent Care Account
- Health Savings Account
- Unlimited Vacation Days
- 7 days paid sick leave
- 9 paid Holidays
- Referral Bonus Program