Senior Director, FP&A, & Commercial Enablement - Gracenote

Company Description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

About Gracenote 

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, provides entertainment metadata and content recognition technologies that help people connect to the music, movies, and TV shows they love. 

Daily, Gracenote processes 35 billion rows of data and is a world leader in return path big data. 

From the world’s largest entertainment datasets to industry-leading discovery solutions, Gracenote powers the top media platforms and devices globally. 

About the Role 

As the Sr. Director of FP&A and Commercial Enablement for Gracenote, you will serve as the senior finance leader dedicated to commercial enablement and a critical partner to the Chief Business Officer, Chief Product Officer, and broader commercial and product leadership teams. You will help shape Gracenote’s growth agenda through financial leadership across revenue predictability, product and customer profitability, new product introduction support, pricing strategy, and go-to-market decision support. 

This is a high-visibility role requiring operational rigor, strategic foresight, commercial acumen, and strong cross-functional influence. Success in this role requires the ability to operate effectively in a fast-evolving and often ambiguous environment, bringing structure to complex

business challenges and translating shifting priorities into scalable financial frameworks and executive-ready decision support. 

What You'll Do 

Financial Leadership and Commercial Enablement 

Key Responsibilities 

- Serve as the senior finance partner to the Chief Business Officer, Chief Product Officer, and commercial leadership team, providing financial guidance on growth priorities, product economics, pricing strategy, and go-to-market execution. 

- Partner across the broader finance organization to ensure commercial insights, assumptions, and business drivers are reflected in consolidated forecasting, planning, and executive decision support, while maintaining clear accountability for commercial enablement leadership. 

- Lead complex financial and operational modeling across revenue streams, customer segments, product lines, cost structures, and growth scenarios to support investment decisions, resource allocation, pricing strategy, margin expansion, and forecasting. 

- Lead the commercial enablement agenda through pipeline and sales forecasting, top-client renewal analytics, product line profitability, customer and product churn and migration analysis, and performance insights that improve revenue visibility and decision-making. 

- Provide significant financial support for New Product Introductions through product market fit analytics, revenue and cost planning, scenario modeling, and launch decision support. 

- Partner across Commercial, Product, Core FP&A, Deal Desk, Pricing, and Revenue Accounting to improve alignment on pricing strategy, renewal economics, product allocations, revenue reporting, sales incentive alignment, and broader commercial governance. 

- Partner with Sales Leadership on quota design and optimization to align incentives with regional market dynamics and strategic growth priorities. 

- Oversee the commission lifecycle to ensure transparency, accuracy, auditability, and strong financial governance while minimizing shadow accounting across the sales organization. 

- Modernize commercial finance processes through automated reporting, AI-enabled analysis, and scalable data solutions that shift the team from manual analysis to strategic insight generation.

Collaborate and Influence 

- Partner closely with the Chief Business Officer, Chief Product Officer, Gracenote CEO, SVP Finance, and leaders across Commercial, Product, Operations, and Revenue Accounting to drive alignment on business priorities and scalable growth initiatives. 

- Prepare and deliver clear, decision-oriented materials for senior leadership, Nielsen Sponsors, and the Board of Directors, translating complex commercial and financial topics into actionable executive narratives. 

- Lead the commercial financial storytelling for Gracenote’s growth trajectory, ensuring c