We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Director, Brand Finance CB2.

This role will serve as the strategic Finance partner to the CB2 brand, bringing a big-picture mindset to ensure that team processes and procedures result in best-in-class finance and accounting practices. The Director will have responsibility for all financial planning and analysis activities (FP&A)—including forecasting, budgeting, financial reporting, and portfolio analytics—to support strategic decision making across the brand.  As a key member of both the Corporate Brand and Finance leadership teams, this leader will demonstrate a deep understanding of core business drivers to deliver insightful, value-added analysis to support the brand’s key objectives. 

• This is an on-site position (Monday through Thursday) based out of our Chicago, IL CB2 offices with the flexibility to work remotely on Fridays.
• This role is an Individual Contributorposition 

A day in the life as a Director, Brand Finance CB2

• Provide financial leadership and strategic support to senior management, including preparing board presentations, financial presentations, capital expenditure analysis, industry/peer group comparisons, analysis of new business opportunities and other projects, as requested by senior management, across the CB2 and brand
• Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
• Oversee and manage the continued development of monthly forecasts, annual budgets, long-range financial and operating plans, and modeling tools 
• Acts as the analytic engine of the CB2 brand to provide insights and support optimal business decision making
• Analyze current and past trends using financial statements and key performance indicators, including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses, and capital expenditures
• Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends, and analyze causes of unexpected variance across a full P&L through EBIT
• Implement and work with business intelligence tools and dashboard reports 
• Improve performance by evaluating processes to drive efficiencies and proactively seek out and evaluate opportunities to improve sales and margin (sourcing, promotions, discounts, etc)
• Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision-making purposes

What you’ll bring to the table…

• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Excellent communication and influencing skills - communicate freely and easily internally and externally verbally and in writing
• Strong organization, leadership and decision-making skills
• Solid business acumen
• Demonstrated initiative and the ability to work effectively within time constraints
• Attention to detail paired with big-picture thinking 
• Effective and efficient in data mining or knowledge discovery - a process of gathering, testing, and analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing the results in a way that impacts driving financial decisions up to an executive level
• Demonstrated experience in the application of analytical methods of addressing business issues, with an emphasis on overall corporate decision analysis
• Proficiency in financial systems and BI tools including Hyperion, Peoplesoft, Microstrategy, etc., along with Google Workspace preferred

We’d love to hear from you if you have…  

• 8 + years progressive related experience 
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• Executive-level quantitative/analytical and organizational skills 
• Expert forecasting and financial modeling skills
• MBA and/or CFA preferred 

Minimum Starting Rate: $180,000.00 Annually

Up to: $220,000.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.