Director, Finance

Ziply Fiber; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Flexible spending account

Paid time off

Parental leave

Quarterly bonus

Training programs

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Ziply Fiber in Kirkland, WA, is seeking a Director of Finance to scale a fast-growing company by serving as the financial planning and analysis liaison with Bell Canada. The Director provides financial insights, modeling, and reporting to support Ziply’s U.S.

fiber build and overall operations. The ideal candidate is a team player with strong analytical and modeling skills who enjoys solving complex problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Minimum of five (5) years of people leadership experience, including managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (including financial modeling) and Microsoft PowerPoint for creating and delivering impactful presentations.
• Experience with PowerBI, SQL, Alteryx, and Anaplan considered an asset for the role
• Experience with treasury function considered an asset
• Strong ability to communicate complex financial models in a clear, simplified manner for diverse audiences.
• Hands-on and detailed oriented but also be able to see the big picture.
• Collaborative and service focused, comfortable working across all organizational levels.
• Flexible and adaptive in a rapidly changing environment.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and achieve desired performance metrics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Ziply leadership team to drive the annual planning process including five-year plan, operating budget, capital budget, and company strategy.
• Support Ziply operating expense and subsidiary FP&A function
• Assess ROI for capital expenditures and other business investments.
• Provide thorough and thoughtful financial analysis to drive better informed decision-making.
• Partner with business units to understand financial performance and develop/ implement action plans to achieve objectives.
• Partner with Accounting team in developing relevant and timely financial reporting for business leaders.
• Frequently prepare and present materials to senior Ziply and Bell Canada executives
• Cultivate and sustain effective working relationships between Bell Canada and Ziply.
• Managesensitive information and exercise excellent judgement and discretion.
• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

Skills

Financial planning

Budgeting

Forecasting

Excel modeling

PowerBI

SQL

Leadership

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Anaplan

Alteryx

Job description

Kirkland, United States | Posted on 10/05/2026

We're building the fibernetwork you deserve. Consistently fast, refreshingly straightforward and givingyou control. From our home base in Kirkland, Washington, we're connecting overone million homes and businesses across the states we serve with fiber internetthat works the way it should. No gimmicks, no gotchas. Internet shouldn’t getin the way of life: it should make it better.

Benefits: Medical,dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid timeoff, parental leave, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth andeducation reimbursement programs.

ZiplyFiber is a local internet service provider dedicated toelevating theconnected livesof the communities we serve. We offer the fastest homeinternet in the nation, arefreshingly great customer experience,andaffordableplansthat putcustomersin charge.

Asourstate-of-the-artfiber network expands, so does our need for teammembers who can help us grow and realize our goals.

OurCompanyValues:

• Genuinely Caring: We treat customersand colleagues like neighbors, with empathy and full attention.
• Empowering You: We help customerschoose whatisbest for them,andwesupportemployeesin implementingnew ideasand solutions.
• Innovation and Improvement: Weconstantly seek ways to improve how we serve customers and eachother.
• Earning Your Trust: We build trustthrough clear, honest,human communication.

Job Summary

To be considered for this role you must live within commuting distance of our office in Kirkland, WA.

The Director, Finance willhelp scale a fast-growing company by serving as the financial planning andanalysis liaison with Bell Canada. The Director provides financial insights,modeling, and reporting to support Ziply’s U.S. fiber build and overalloperations. The role offers broad visibility across the organization and theopportunity to deliver insights that meaningfully impact the business. Theideal candidate is a team player with strong analytical and modeling skills whoenjoys solving complex problems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range ofduties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all dutiesperformed.

Strategic Planning &Financial Leadership

• Collaboratewith Ziply leadership team to drive the annual planning process includingfive-year plan, operating budget, capital budget, and company strategy.
• Support Ziply operating expense and subsidiary FP&A function
• AssessROI for capital expenditures and other business investments.
• Providethorough and thoughtful financial analysis to drive better informeddecision-making.

Business Partnership &Reporting

• Partnerwith business units to understand financial performance and develop/ implementaction plans to achieve objectives.
• Partnerwith Accounting team in developing relevant and timely financial reporting forbusiness leaders.

Stakeholder Relations &Communication

• Frequentlyprepare and present materials to senior Ziply and Bell Canada executives
• Cultivateand sustain effective working relationships between Bell Canada and Ziply.

Confidentiality &Professional Judgment

• Managesensitive information and exercise excellent judgement and discretion.

Other Duties

• Performsother duties as required to support the business and evolving organization .

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, BusinessAdministration, or related field.
• Minimumof ten (10) years’ experience in financial planning and analysis.
• Minimumof five (5) years of people leadership experience, including managing anddeveloping high-performing teams.
• Advancedproficiency in Microsoft Excel (including financial modeling) and MicrosoftPowerPoint for creating and delivering impactful presentations.
• Experiencewith PowerBI, SQL, Alteryx, and Anaplan considered an asset for the role
• Experiencewith treasury function considered an asset
• Strongability to communicate complex financial models in a clear, simplified manner fordiverse audiences.
• Hands-onand detailed oriented but also be able to see the big picture.
• Collaborativeand service focused, comfortable working across all organizational levels.
• Flexibleand adaptive in a rapidly changing environment.
• Self-starterwith the ability to work independently and achieve desired performance metrics.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior leadership experience within the telecommunicationsindustry.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Abilityto work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to avariety of situations.
• Abilityto multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meetdeadlines.
• Strongverbal and written communication, attention to detail, and organizationalskills.
• Abilityto work within critical deadlines.
• Abilityto adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.
• Abilityto provide excellent customer service.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currently authorized towork in the US for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for thisposition.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands describedhere are representative of those that must be met by an employee tosuccessfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonableaccommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to performthe essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may requiremaintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking,or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in acomfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about. The employee mustoccasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilitiesrequired by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision,peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work is performed in an office setting withexposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer,keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work is primarily amodern office setting.

At all times, Ziply Fiber must be yourprimary employer. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, employees may not holdoutside employment nor be self-employed without obtaining approval in writingfrom Ziply Fiber. In holding outside employment or self-employment, employeesshould ensure that participation does not conflict with responsibilities toZiply Fiber or its business interests.

Ziply Fiber requires a pre-employment backgroundcheck as conditions of employment. Ziply Fiber may require a pre-employmentdrug screening.