DIRECTOR OF FINANCE - Pursuit Boats

Summary:  The Director of Finance is a highly analytical and hands-on finance leader who partners directly with the Brand President to drive financial performance, strategic execution, and business accountability. The Director of Finance operates in a matrixed structure, reporting to the VP Finance and indirectly to the Brand President and is a key member of both the divisional leadership team and the corporate finance team. As an independent contributor, this role has no direct reports but is supported by shared Corporate FP&A resources. The Director is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and decision support across the brand, while ensuring alignment with corporate standards and objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Partnering

• Function as a strategic thought partner to the brand President, bringing financial rigor to pricing, investments, cost structure efficiency, production capacity planning, and market strategy to drive sustainable value creation.

• Influence strategic priorities, commercial initiatives, and business decisions through data-driven financial analysis and process improvements to drive operational performance and profitability.
• Provide competitive and external benchmarking perspective to the business.

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the development of the brand’s annual operating budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plan by partnering with divisional leadership to establish aggressive but achievable business plan commitments to maximize business value.
• Build and maintain robust financial models across volume, ASP, margin, and EBITDA.
• Coordinate with Corporate FP&A analysts for data preparation, sensitivity analyses, and planning scenarios.
• Optimize capital returns by preparing business cases in support of capital investments, performing post implementation reviews of major investments, and working capital optimization.

Corporate Integration and Compliance

• Serve as a bridge between brand operations and Corporate Finance to ensure accurate consolidation, alignment of assumptions, and timely reporting.
• Coordinate with Corporate FP&A analysts on model development, variance analysis, and KPI tracking.
• Ensure brand compliance with corporate financial policies, accounting standards, and internal controls.

Execution & Decision Support

• Work proactively with division and functional leadership teams to deliver planned commitments.
• Prepare monthly reporting packages and performance narratives highlighting business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze variances vs. budget, forecast, and prior year; synthesize root causes and recommend corrective actions.
• Drive brand-level margin and cost optimization in partnership with operations, supply chain, and product management.

Collaboration Across the Organization

• Operate as co-pilot to brand President. Collaborate effectively with division and functional leadership teams to ensure financial input into all major business decisions.
• Navigate priorities between business units and corporate stakeholders in a matrixed structure.
• Work closely with shared services functions, including accounting, FP&A, and IT
• Support ad-hoc analysis, strategic projects, and board/executive reporting requests.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance director of MBG division on Saltwater segment projects and external reporting deliverables.

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Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (MBA or CPA a plus)

• 7+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, preferably in manufacturing

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex documents. Ability to respond effective