Director, Strategic Finance

BISNOW OVERVIEW

Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland. We serve the CRE industry through award-winning news and publications, renowned events, wide-ranging marketing services, specialized recruitment solutions, and intelligent sales enablement tools.

Our subscriber base of 1.5M CRE executives encompasses powerful, high net worth individuals with significant buying power. These sought-after decision makers are at the epicenter of our brand. With Fortune 500 and luxury brands looking to target these customers, we are opening a new role to own this new vertical.

The FP&A Manager will play a pivotal role in supporting Bisnow’s CEO and Finance team by delivering data-driven insights, financial analysis, and strategic recommendations. Strong communication skills are essential, as this role requires translating complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for leadership. This intermediate-level position focuses on creating and enhancing financial models, preparing executive-level presentations, and conducting in-depth analysis to improve decision-making and business performance. The ideal candidate will bring a mix of technical expertise, strategic thinking, and a continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to effectively collaborate across teams and convey financial narratives that drive efficiency and innovation within the organization.

This isn’t just a finance role—it’s a high-impact, high-visibility position where you’ll be the go-to strategic finance partner for Bisnow’s CEO, finance leadership, and department heads. You will take ownership of financial modeling, forecasting, and performance tracking to help drive real-time business decisions across all of Bisnow’s business lines, including Biscred and SelectLeaders.

If you’re excited about owning key financial initiatives, influencing company strategy, and partnering with leadership to drive business success, this is the role for you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

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Own the forecast and the process that produces it — the leading indicators, historical benchmarks, and sales-input rhythm that make an unpredictable business plannable. Get your inputs from sales leadership directly, not from a report.

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Make the analytical case for where the next dollar and the next hire go. Explain not just what the P&L did, but why a new event category matters, what a digital investment should return, and where the multi-year path leads. Validate the assumptions under the multi-year plan and build the bridge from this year to those numbers.

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Pressure-test optimism as rigorously as pessimism. Look at a target and say whether it's achievable in the time available. Surface the initiative that isn't scaling or the assumption that stopped being true before it becomes a surprise, and bring a view on what the company should stop doing — not only what it should add.

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Own planning for the business units outside the core events budget , with a closer look under the hood on digital and new initiatives, and partner with department leaders on staffing plans and the business cases behind headcount.

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Own the quality of the numbers and how they get produced. Everything that leaves Finance ties to one source and stays consistent month over month, and reconciles with Accounting through close without manual bridging. Too much of the recurring reporting is manual today — you'll rebuild it and lead the evaluation of dedicated FP&A tooling. Small finance teams don't need to be big, they need to be efficient, and you'll be measured on how much analytical capacity you create.

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Set the standard for the function. Prioritize the work with the FP&A Manager, review output before it goes out, raise the ceiling on what he can own, and hold the analytical and writing bar for the team.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

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8–12 years in FP&A, strategic finance, or corporate finance, with clear progression in scope and ownership.

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Has owned a company-level or major-segment forecast, not a workstream inside someone else's model. Multi-business-line or multi-entity experience preferred.

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Has forecast a lumpy, project-based revenue business — events, media, marketplace, or anything that starts each year near zero. You can walk us through how you got to a number the data couldn't fully support, and why it held up.

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Exceptional written communication: concise, structured, free of finance jargon, and built for a board, PE sponsor, or corporate parent. Presenting to one directly is a plus.

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Gets fluent in an unfamiliar, complicated business fast, and stays curious about it beyond the numbers. Expect to understand the economics of every Bisnow revenue line inside 60 days.

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Expert financial modeling and advanced Excel — you can build it yourself, and you can tell within minutes whether someone else's model is trustworthy. NetSuite or comparable ERP, Salesforce, and BI fluency welcome.

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Track record of replacing manual reporting with something scalable and documented. FP&A platform selection or implementation (Cube, Adaptive, Pigment, Anaplan) is a plus, as is a working practice around AI in finance and a clear view on when tooling is the answer and when it's a distraction.

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Experience managing or formally developing finance talent. You'll have a direct report on day one.

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Forms a view and brings a recommendation rather than waiting to be asked for analysis. Comfortable being the person in the room who says the number doesn't work. Low ego, high accountability, and steady without process cover in a business that moves faster than the plan.

WHY JOIN US?

At Bisnow, you'll be part of a dynamic and innovative team that drives the commercial real estate industry forward. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to directly shape how capital and people are deployed across the business, work alongside a supportive and high-performing team, and contribute to the growth of a globally recognized brand.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive compensation structure!
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - this includes maternity and paternity leaves as well.
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Account
• Health Savings Account
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• 7 days paid sick leave
• 9 paid Holidays
• Referral Bonus Program
• You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).