Director of Retail Finance

Title: Director of Retail Finance
Location: Stamford, CT
Job Type: Full Time | Exempt

Who You Are:

You're a strategic finance leader with a strong background in retail or consumer packaged goods (CPG), advanced financial modeling expertise, and a deep understanding of what drives profitability across a portfolio of stores. You're equally comfortable building complex financial models, forecasting business performance, and partnering with executive leadership to guide strategic decisions. You bring a hands-on approach to financial planning and analysis, with experience evaluating investments, improving profitability, and developing high-performing finance teams. You're analytical, collaborative, and confident navigating ambiguity while translating complex financial data into actionable business recommendations.

What You'll Do:

As the Director of Retail Finance at Curaleaf, you'll lead financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis across our national retail portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Commercial Finance, you'll partner with executive leadership to drive profitable growth, improve store performance, and guide strategic investments. You'll directly oversee finance for the East region while leading two regional finance leaders supporting the West and Southeast, ensuring consistent financial models, reporting, and planning processes nationwide. You will:

• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning across Curaleaf's multi-state retail portfolio.
• Build and maintain sophisticated financial models to forecast store-level, regional, and national performance, including revenue, margins, labor, and operating expenses.
• Own store-level and regional P&L analysis, identifying trends, performance gaps, and opportunities to improve profitability.
• Develop scenario and sensitivity models to evaluate business strategies, assess financial risks, and support executive decision-making.
• Partner with Retail Operations, Merchandising, Marketing, and Commercial leadership to evaluate pricing, promotions, inventory productivity, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Analyze comparable-store sales, labor productivity, operating costs, and key retail KPIs to identify opportunities for operational and financial improvement.
• Lead financial modeling and investment analysis for new store openings, acquisitions, remodels, relocations, and portfolio optimization.
• Partner with Real Estate and executive leadership to evaluate market expansion, capital allocation, and strategic growth opportunities.
• Deliver financial performance reviews, forecasts, and strategic recommendations to senior executives and Board-level stakeholders.
• Lead and develop two regional finance leaders while directly overseeing financial planning and performance management for the East region.
• Establish standardized financial models, KPIs, forecasting methodologies, and reporting processes across all retail regions.
• Drive improvements in financial systems, reporting automation, and analytical tools to strengthen efficiency and data-driven decision-making.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including at least 5 years in retail finance, consumer packaged goods (CPG) finance, or multi-unit retail operations finance.
• 5+ years of experience leading and developing finance teams.
• Demonstrated experience managing financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis across a portfolio of retail stores, business units, or multiple operating locations.
• Advanced financial modeling and Excel expertise, with the ability to independently build complex forecasting, profitability, scenario analysis, and investment models.
• Strong understanding of retail financial drivers, including store-level P&Ls, comparable-store sales, gross margins, labor productivity, and operating expenses.
• Extensive experience leading budgeting, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, and financial performance reviews.
• Experience evaluating capital investments, business expansion opportunities, and strategic financial initiatives.
• Proficiency with ERP systems, financial planning platforms, and business intelligence tools.
• Proven ability to influence executive leadership, translate complex financial analysis into actionable recommendations, and drive cross-functional business decisions.
• Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage competing priorities.

Even Better If:

• You have an MBA, CPA, or CFA designation.
• You've supported financial planning for a large, multi-state retail organization with 100+ locations.
• You have experience in cannabis retail or another highly regulated industry.
• You're familiar with financial planning and reporting tools such as Vena, Omni, SAP, Oracle, Power BI, or Tableau.
• You have experience supporting retail expansion, real estate investments, acquisitions, or financial systems implementations.