Director Retail Finance

Step into a high-impact leadership role at Starkey as our Director of Retail Finance
, where strategy, finance, and business leadership converge. This is a rare opportunity to serve as a trusted advisor to executive and retail leaders, shaping market‑specific distribution strategies and driving enterprise value across a global organization. You'll transform financial performance into compelling business stories, influence key decisions around growth, investment, and innovation, and build a high‑performing finance team that supports Starkey's mission.

If you thrive at the intersection of analytics, strategy, and leadership—and want your work to directly impact the future of a dynamic retail business—this role offers both scale and influence.

Starkey is a world leader in the manufacturing and distribution of advanced hearing technologies. We are in the business of connecting people and changing lives. Our teams come to work each day focused on ensuring people everywhere have the products and services they need to hear better and live better.

Founded in 1967 by Bill Austin, Starkey is known for its cutting‑edge hearing health innovations, industry‑leading research and development, and for not being afraid to push the edge of what’s possible.

We are headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, have over 5,000 employees in 29 facilities across the globe, and do business in more than 100 markets worldwide.

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The Director of Retail Finance is a strategic business partner for Starkey’s business unit. This role collaborates with Starkey leaders to develop and execute market‑specific distribution strategies aligned with our corporate goals and philosophy. The focus is on creating enterprise value by synergizing strategy and finance. It requires a deep understanding of the business, its value drivers and KPIs in order to translate financial performance into business stories.

Responsibilities include FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, capital investments, and corporate development initiatives. The position collaborates closely with the Corporate Controller’s team in deploying a comprehensive set of controls and processes to mitigate financial risk, fraud, and ensure reporting accuracy.

• Lead the financial planning and analysis function of global retail, including annual budgeting, forecasting, and long‑term planning aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
• Serve as the primary finance partner to Regional Directors, Retail Operations leadership, and the Retail CEO & VP Retail Finance for all retail‑related financial matters.
• Collaborate with the Retail Leadership team on key initiatives and financial performance, acting as the senior escalation point for financial queries by operations.
• Optimize data and analytics to ensure internal and external data are credible, readily available, easy to understand, and relevant to support business decisions.
• Advise business stakeholders on key financial, operational trends, market updates, and provide forward viewpoints and projections.
• Lead preparation and delivery of consolidated financial updates to the VP Retail Finance and Executive leadership team, ensuring complex issues are communicated clearly with recommended actions.
• Manage month‑end close, budgeting and forecasting processes for key business units, overseeing accuracy, insight and timely delivery to the VP Retail Finance.
• Provide ad‑hoc financial analyses for capital investments, pricing decisions, and acquisitions & divestitures.
• Lead retail enterprise transfer/internal price policy and reporting requirements.
• Create and manage financial reports and dashboards to communicate financial performance to business stakeholders.
• Own the accuracy, integrity and consistency of retail financial data used for operational and strategic decision‑making.
• Establish and maintain appropriate analytical tools and reporting to ensure effective and efficient management of resources.
• Cultivate key stakeholder relationships, and provide competitive benchmarking, analysis and insights.
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