Finance Data & Analytics Leader: Build & Scale Insights

Columbia Sportswear Company; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbia Sportswear Company in Portland, Maine, seeks a Senior Manager, Finance Data & Analytics to bridge Finance stakeholders and analytics teams, shaping data strategy and governance while building a new analytics capability. This role will lead a high-impact program and establish the data foundation for faster insights and better business decisions.

You will partner across FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and Audit to identify opportunities, define scalable reporting, and drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 8+ years of analytics, BI, data management, or related disciplines.
• Experience building or maturing analytics capabilities or data governance programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead Finance Data & Analytics capability: roadmap, governance, operating model, long-term vision.
• Drive analytics adoption, data literacy, and data-driven culture across Finance.
• Partner with FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and Audit to identify high-value analytics opportunities.
• Define scalable reporting, dashboards, and self-service analytics solutions.
• Align Finance data architecture, governance, KPI definitions, and semantic models with Enterprise Data & Analytics.
• Lead development of Finance data foundations: access, integration, cleansing, standardization.
• Oversee dashboards, analytics products, models, and insights with data quality and governance.
• Establish analytics intake, prioritization, and backlog processes.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytics leadership

Data storytelling

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Analytics/IS/CS/DS/Business/Finance

Tools

Power BI

Azure

Databricks

SQL

TM1

Job description

Columbia Sportswear Company in Portland, Maine, seeks a Senior Manager, Finance Data & Analytics to bridge Finance stakeholders and analytics teams, shaping data strategy and governance while building a new analytics capability. This role will lead a high-impact program and establish the data foundation for faster insights and better business decisions.

You will partner across FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Procurement, and Audit to identify opportunities, define scalable reporting, and drive