Sr. Director, Strategic Finance and Business Insights

The Knot Worldwide

  • Washington DC
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 27 days ago
WHAT WE DO MATTERS:At The Knot Worldwide, we champion celebration - and that starts with celebrating our people. Our employees are passionate dreamers, thoughtful doers, and lifelong learners who power meaningful moments for millions around the world. We're united by authentic connection, shared purpose, and a deep commitment to the global community we serve. Here, flexibility and belonging go hand in hand with high performance. We believe the best ideas come from empowered teams: those who consistently collaborate with intention to design solutions, spark ideas, and drive impact. We inspire, we build, and we celebrate. We dream big, love our users, hustle every day, and always do the right thing to win - together. Our people are at the heart of our success.ABOUT THE ROLE AND OUR TEAM:The Strategic Finance & Business Insights team at The Knot Worldwide is a high-impact, tech-forward group that empowers leadership and cross-functional stakeholders with data-driven insights to accelerate decision-making. We integrate finance, data, and automation to fuel investment, growth, and operational excellence across our global brands. Join our collaborative team as we reimagine finance through self-service tooling, intelligent workflows, and modern reporting infrastructure.As our innovative and systems-minded Director/Senior Director, you'll be instrumental in architecting our next-generation finance intelligence platform. You'll create scalable solutions that simplify how we plan, forecast, and operate. As a foundational hire, you'll define our approach to BI tooling and automation from the ground up, building automated workflows, data pipelines, and dashboards to deliver crucial insights across the business. You'll partner closely with our Strategic Finance, Engineering, Accounting, Data, and Product teams, reporting directly to our Vice President of Strategic Finance & Business Insights.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Your role will involve developing self-service dashboards and tools that provide the leadership team and other key stakeholders with scalable access to key company metrics.
  • You'll collaborate with various teams to transform business requirements into technical solutions, ultimately leading to improved investment decisions and more accurate forecasting.
  • You'll automate critical financial workflows. This work will power key insights for executive dashboards, cohort analysis, pacing, and supply/demand performance in our two-sided marketplace.
  • You'll establish and uphold high standards for data quality, metric governance, and documentation across all our finance data.
  • You'll advocate for and drive the adoption of automation and AI tools within finance and you'll lead the evaluation of new technologies to speed up our planning and reporting.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team providing mentorship and clear direction to drive excellence and continuous improvement.
REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
  • Proven hands-on experience with BI platforms (e.g., Qlik, Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Preset, Pigment), particularly in designing scalable semantic layers and dashboards.
  • 7-10 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics Engineering, FP&A Systems, or a blend of Data and Finance roles.
  • You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, enabling you to translate complex technical work into clear business outcomes and effectively influence non-technical stakeholders.
  • You have a systems-thinking mindset and an entrepreneurial drive to build tools that scale effectively across global, cross-functional teams.
  • You have a deep understanding of financial and operational metrics and experience partnering with Strategic Finance or FP&A teams.
WORK MODEL:This role is Together@TKWW-eligible and based near one of our office hubs. Starting September 15, 2025, you'll be expected to work in the office two days a week as part of our hybrid work model.At The Knot Worldwide, we believe you are more than a resume and invite you to go for it, take the leap of faith, and apply for this job if it sparks your passion to join TKWW and make a difference!WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT YOU:You Dream Big. You iterate and experiment to drive innovation.You Love Our Users. You keep our global community at the center of everything you do.You Do the Right Thing. You strengthen your team through respect, fairness, and inclusion.You Hustle Every Day. You favor urgency and own your outcomes.You Win Together. People are at the heart of our success and you play as a team.WHAT YOU LOVE ABOUT US:We believe in a wide range of holistic offerings to support our employees so that they can live our values day in and day out. From mental wellbeing, physical health and financial planning, to engaging perks and discounts, we are in the business of celebrating and supporting the Moments that Matter both in and out of the “office”. We offer flexible vacation, generous parental leave and prioritize initiatives that support the growth, development, and happiness of our people.Together@TKWW is our approach to hybrid work. It's designed to support how we work best: combining the flexibility we value with meaningful opportunities to connect in person. Whether a role is Together@TKWW-eligible or not, we believe in purposeful moments to come together, build strong relationships, and drive bold ideas forward.
  • For Together@TKWW-eligible roles, this includes regular in-office time to foster collaboration and connection.
  • For roles not eligible for in-office expectations, we support connection through virtual collaboration and intentional gatherings.
To facilitate in-person collaboration, we have office spaces in Barcelona, Spain; Delhi, India; Galway, Ireland; London, England; New York, NY; and Washington, D.C.--US Notice: The Knot Worldwide provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability. In addition to federal law requirements, The Knot Worldwide complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. The Knot Worldwide expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.Privacy Notice: TKWW processes your personal data as part of the recruitment process, based on the legal basis of executing pre-contractual measures at your request. This means we use your information to assess your application and carry out the necessary steps for a potential employment contract. Only the information strictly necessary for evaluating your application is collected. You can request access, rectification, or deletion of your data. For more information on how we handle your personal data, please refer to our . If you wish to file a complaint, you may contact the competent data protection authority.

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