Director of Corporate Finance (Annapolis, MD) at undefined

Summary/Objective:

The Director of Corporate Finance serves as a strategic leader responsible for financial planning and analysis (FP&A), capital structure strategy, corporate insurance programs, and strategic financial modeling. This role requires strong leadership, analytical excellence, and the ability to partner cross-functionally to support current operations while ensuring long-term business scalability.

Essential Functions:

• Oversee all FP&A activities and partner closely with the CFO on budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning.
• Build and maintain financial models for strategic initiatives, including acquisitions, investments, and market expansion.
• Deliver monthly financial analysis, summaries, dashboard reporting, and variance explanations to business leaders.
• Develop standardized financial dashboards and tools to improve visibility and decision-making.
• Own capital structure strategy, including debt planning, leverage management, refinancing analysis, and lender coordination.
• Evaluate and optimize working capital performance; partner with Treasury on cash forecasting, liquidity planning, and covenant compliance.
• Lead financial due diligence, valuation modeling, and post-merger integration for acquisitions and strategic investments.
• Maintain analytics on the strategic deal pipeline and assess emerging opportunities.
• Manage corporate insurance programs, risk assessments, renewals, and partner with Legal and HR on claims and enterprise risk mitigation.
• Supervise and develop a team of analysts, providing coaching, development, and daily direction.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, treasury, legal, sales, HR, and accounting to support business decisions and ensure accurate monthly financial statements.
• Oversee CAPEX spend, approvals, forecasting, and project ROI analysis.
• Prepare high-quality presentations and financial reports for the Board, lenders, investors, and executive leadership.
• Support investor relations with financial narratives, materials, and analysis.
• Partner with the CFO, COO, CEO, Controller, and Director of Financial Operations on strategic initiatives and day-to-day priorities.

Non - Essential Functions:

• Work extensively with plant personnel to improve business.
• Support the Chief Financial Officer and Controller as needed.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Work Environment:

• Work time will be indoors/office.
• Noise level will be low.

Physical Demands:

• Sit approximately 7 hours per day and walk or stand the other 1 hour per day.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

• Experience in accounting or finance (7+ years preferred).
• Public accounting experience (2+ years preferred).
• Prior supervisory experience (2+ years preferred).

Special Skills:

• Excellent written communication and verbal communication
• Ability to use Microsoft Office with a focus on Excel and additional financial modeling
• Experience using ERP and Accounting software (Great Plains)
• Knowledge of operating budgets and capital budget concepts
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to exhibit high level of confidentiality
• Excellent organizational skills

Industry Related Experience or Skills:

• N/A

Education Required: BA/BS (Accounting/Finance)

Preferred Education: Masters’ Degree

Bilingual in Spanish Preferred: No