DIRECTOR OF FINANCE - Malibu Boats

Summary:  The Director of Finance is a highly analytical and hands-on finance leader who partners directly with the Brand President to drive financial performance, strategic execution, and business accountability. The Director of Finance operates in a matrixed structure, reporting to the VP Finance and indirectly to the Brand President and is a key member of both the divisional leadership team and the corporate finance team. As an independent contributor, this role has no direct reports but is supported by shared Corporate FP&A resources. The Director is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and decision support across the brand, while ensuring alignment with corporate standards and objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Business Partnering

• Function as a strategic thought partner to the brand President, bringing financial rigor to pricing, investments, cost structure efficiency, production capacity planning, and market strategy to drive sustainable value creation.

• Influence strategic priorities, commercial initiatives, and business decisions through data-driven financial analysis and process improvements to drive operational performance and profitability.
• Provide competitive and external benchmarking perspective to the business.

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Lead the development of the brand’s annual operating budget, quarterly forecasts, and long-range plan by partnering with divisional leadership to establish aggressive but achievable business plan commitments to maximize business value.
• Build and maintain robust financial models across volume, ASP, margin, and EBITDA.
• Coordinate with Corporate FP&A analysts for data preparation, sensitivity analyses, and planning scenarios.
• Optimize capital returns by preparing business cases in support of capital investments, performing post implementation reviews of major investments, and working capital optimization.

Corporate Integration and Compliance

• Serve as a bridge between brand operations and Corporate Finance to ensure accurate consolidation, alignment of assumptions, and timely reporting.
• Coordinate with Corporate FP&A analysts on model development, variance analysis, and KPI tracking.
• Ensure brand compliance with corporate financial policies, accounting standards, and internal controls.

Execution & Decision Support

• Work proactively with division and functional leadership teams to deliver planned commitments.
• Prepare monthly reporting packages and performance narratives highlighting business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Analyze variances vs. budget, forecast, and prior year; synthesize root causes and recommend corrective actions.
• Drive brand-level margin and cost optimization in partnership with operations, supply chain, and product management.

Collaboration Across the Organization

• Operate as co-pilot to brand President. Collaborate effectively with division and functional leadership teams to ensure financial input into all major business decisions.
• Navigate priorities between business units and corporate stakeholders in a matrixed structure.
• Work closely with shared services functions, including accounting, FP&A, and IT
• Support ad-hoc analysis, strategic projects, and board/executive reporting requests.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance director of MBG division on Saltwater segment projects and external reporting deliverables.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (MBA or CPA a plus)

• 7+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, preferably in manufacturing

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries or complaints. Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style. Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Other Qualifications:

• Proven ability to build financial models, interpret data, and provide actionable insights.
• Experience working in a cross-functional or matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Excel and financial systems such as Oracle, Hyperion, SmartView, or similar tools
• Effective communication skills, mindfulness, and initiative-taking problem-solving mindset
• Strong business acumen and understanding of operational drivers and performance metrics.
• Comfortable leading without direct authority in a collaborative environment
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver on tight timelines.
• Curious, collaborative, and focused on continuous improvement.

Physical Demands: This is a sedentary office position requiring extended periods of sitting, use of standard office equipment, and occasional travel.