Senior Director, Finance & Growth Analytics

Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education reimbursement

Early-release Summer Fridays

Performance-based bonus

Job summary

Harvard Business Publishing seeks a Senior Director, Finance and Business Performance in Boston to lead long-range planning, budgeting, and strategic decision-support for the Higher Education unit. You will partner with the Unit Head and CFO to drive financial health, develop dashboards, and guide sales operations and analytics initiatives, building a high-performing, data-driven team.

This role emphasizes cross-functional leadership across Marketing, Product, Sales, and IT to align resources

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial planning, operations, BI or analytics.
• Expert-level Excel skills with strong modeling capabilities.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
• Ability to collaborate with Product, Marketing and Sales teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting and KPI setting.
• Create dashboards and financial models to improve profitability.
• Oversee Sales Operations including planning and pricing strategy.
• Partner with CFO and Unit Head on strategic investments and targets.
• Drive BI capabilities and analytics for better decision making.
• Guide cross-functional enablement across Sales, Marketing, Product and IT.

Skills

Financial planning

Operations

Business intelligence

Analytics

Team leadership

Excel

Tableau

Salesforce

Tools

Tableau

Salesforce

Job description

Harvard Business Publishing seeks a Senior Director, Finance and Business Performance in Boston to lead long-range planning, budgeting, and strategic decision-support for the Higher Education unit. You will partner with the Unit Head and CFO to drive financial health, develop dashboards, and guide sales operations and analytics initiatives, building a high-performing, data-driven team.

This role emphasizes cross-functional leadership across Marketing, Product, Sales, and IT to align resources