Director, Finance (NYC Hybrid)
New York, NY · HybridJob$148–160K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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The Director of Finance supports the SVP of Finance and the International Division CEO with financial analysis strategies, monthly close analysis, and publishing and business trend analysis. The role contributes to mergers and acquisitions and author acquisition analysis, monitors policies and procedures, and partners with Center of Excellence teams and IT on process redesign and technology requirements. Telecommuting is permitted pursuant to company policy.
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Overview
Director, Finance (HarperCollins Publishers, LLC; New York, NY): Support the SVP of Finance and the CEO of the International Division in developing financial analysis strategies. Assist in the monthly financial close: accurately analyze results, including variance analysis, in a timely manner. Provide ad hoc analysis of publishing and business trends. Assemble and summarize data, prepares reports, create presentations of findings, and make recommendations. Contribute to mergers and acquisition processes from acquisition to integration. Provide financial analysis on author acquisitions. Monitor policies and procedures in alignment with global company requirements. Partner with Center of Excellence teams and IT to project-manage process redesign opportunities. Help to define business requirements for identified technology solutions.
Telecommuting permitted pursuant to company policy.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Finance, Accounting, or related field, plus 2 years of experience as a Director, Finance position, job offered or related occupation.
Must have experience with the following:
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financial analysis, budgeting, and planning;
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Microsoft Office Suite;
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Excel, including model building and pivot tables;
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business intelligence platforms;
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project management; and
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translating analytics and statistics to presentations and documents.
Salary: $148,387.00 to $160,000.00per year
Click apply or send resume to [email protected] .An EOE.
Job Locations US-NY-New York
Category Finance
How this job compares
Set against the 444 open Finance Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$148–160K/yr
- New York median$149–186K/yr34 salary ranges
- US median$150–215K/yr232 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $154K, is 6% below the New York median midpoint ($165K) — in the middle half of Finance Director salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Finance Director jobs in New York and 444 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Robert Half Finance & Accounting3 open
- Aon Service Corporation2 open
- HarperCollins Publishers (this employer)2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Finance Director postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 341 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 236 of the 444 open Finance Director jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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