Senior Director Finance, North America Contract

Why join us? 

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About this opportunity

The Senior Director Finance, North America Contract is a key member of MillerKnoll’s North America Contract Finance leadership team, responsible for helping to shape and execute the company’s financial strategy across our North America Contract business. We seek a transformative leader who thrives in complexity, inspires peak performance, champions operational excellence, and serves as a strategic partner to leaders within the North America Contract business.

Operating within a global, matrixed environment, the Senior Director oversees core finance functions including financial planning & analysis, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and compliance, while strengthening financial processes, controls, and insights to support growth and profitability. The ideal candidate is a hands-on, strategic finance leader who thrives in complexity and leads through influence and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Financial Leadership

• Act as the primary finance partner to North America Contract leadership, supporting strategic and operational decision-making.
• Provide financial analysis and insight to evaluate growth initiatives, pricing, cost structure, and margin performance.
• Support capital planning, investment cases, and resource prioritization aligned with business strategy.
   

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for the North America Contract business.
• Monitor financial performance and key metrics, identifying trends and opportunities.
• Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, financial modeling, and management reporting.
• Support growth initiatives through margin analysis, pricing support, and cost optimization.

Financial Operations

• Oversee day-to-day financial operations, including coordination with Group Brands finance and accounting teams within North America Contract.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting in accordance with corporate policies, data governance principles and regulatory requirements.
• Strengthen internal controls, financial processes, and system capabilities to support scale and efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate effectively across global finance, operations, manufacturing, and commercial teams.
• Communicate financial performance and key drivers clearly to senior leaders.
• Support change initiatives, integrations, and continuous improvement efforts across the business.
• Contribute to investor relations–related analysis or requests as needed.
   

Talent & Team Leadership

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing finance team across a distributed organization.
• Support talent planning, onboarding, development and succession planning.
• Drive a culture of creativity, accountability, and performance within the finance organization.
• Serve as a role model for MillerKnoll’s values and leadership principles consistently.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including leadership roles within complex, matrixed organizations.
• Strong background in FP&A, financial operations, and business partnering.
• Experience supporting large, multi-site or multi-brand businesses; manufacturing or industrial environments preferred.
• Exposure to M&A, transformation, or major change initiatives a plus.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communicator with the confidence to engage senior leaders.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority.
• High integrity and commitment to sound financial governance
• Willingness to travel 20%-30%

Education/ Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• MBA or CPA strongly preferred.

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

This organization participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification. In general, MillerKnoll positions are closed within 45 days and are open for applications for a minimum of 5 days. We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities. We frequently post new opportunities and encourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings.

MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at  [email protected].