FINANCE DIRECTOR SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

Updated: Jun 6, 2025 - The Finance Director brings extensive experience across multiple finance disciplines, including accounting, budgeting, financial analysis, and healthcare pricing. This role requires strong leadership capabilities to manage cross-functional finance teams and the ability to partner effectively with executive leadership to support strategic objectives. The director demands exceptional attention to detail, advanced industry knowledge, and the capacity to navigate complexity while delivering impactful financial outcomes.

Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Finance Director Resume
  • Financial Reporting
  • Budgeting
  • Forecasting
  • Financial Modeling
  • Risk Management
  • Taxation
  • Cash Flow Management
  • Auditing
  • Investment Analysis
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Problem-Solving
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Negotiation
  • Decision-Making
  • Adaptability
  • Time Management
  • Collaboration
  • Conflict Resolution

Summary of Finance Director Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume

1. BA in Finance with 7 years of Experience

  • In-depth experience with all stages of FQHC and related programs Revenue Cycle Management
  • In-depth knowledge of regulations, and policies related to ambulatory health service delivery in an FQHC setting
  • Knowledge and experience with Ryan White and other HRSA programs preferred
  • Strong knowledge and experience using healthcare billing and general ledger software applications
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities successfully
  • Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with health care providers, clients, and all levels of department staff
  • Ability to apply reason, logic, and advanced problem-solving skills to resolve complex issues.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and highly advanced skills with Excel.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced organization with strict deadlines.
  • Experience negotiating contracts and managing vendor relationships.

2. BA in Economics with 8 years of Experience

  • Experience participating or leading financial forecasting, budgeting, and financial model development processes.
  • Experience developing justifications for capital expenditures.
  • Experience with GAAP and financial statement analysis.
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).
  • Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).
  • Experience planning, developing, and managing departmental expense and capital budgets.
  • Experience direct leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership.
  • Experience participating in or leading financial forecasting, budgeting, and financial model development processes.
  • Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example using the AVERAGE function, merging and centering cells, printing centered page and/or creating a pivot table).

3. BA in Accounting with 7 years of Experience

  • Prior Category, Corporate FPandA and/or BU experience pr
  • Demonstrated strong analytical skills and broad business acumen
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
  • Ability to work autonomously and think independently
  • Ability to coach, develop and help team prioritize
  • Excel technical skills along with systems agility
  • Experience with financial models, audits, forecasting, and reporting.
  • Understanding of non-profit accounting, reporting, and regulations preferred.
  • Experience with fund accounting software and restricted grants

4. BA in Business Administration with 10 years of Experience

  • Expertise in US GAAP, IFRS and FOCUS reporting, CPA or equivalent certification
  • Proven experience in leading a team with exceptional management skills and expertise in identifying solutions to design automated solutions to improve financial efficiencies
  • Experience in Finance Transformation efforts including offshoring and outsourcing
  • Experience in managing ERP systems (e.g. Finance, HR, and other back office systems), cost allocation and billing systems, and data governance
  • Knowledge of Oracle Cloud, Quickbooks, Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, Tableau, Word, and Google Suite
  • Strong analytical skills combined with creativity and strategic thinking.
  • Excellent organizational  skills, self-motivation, flexibility, and the ability to work and thrive working
  • Strong business acumen and capacity for fiscal responsibility
  • Experience leading, building teams, developing careers and motivating others
  • Exceptional interpersonal, organizational, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
  • Exceptional Excel, PowerBI, Cognos TM1 and/or other advanced reporting tool skills
  • Financial systems development experience
  • Demonstrated capacity for effective leadership and willingness to assume greater responsibility
  • Ability to make recommendations to resolve problems or issues effectively, by using judgment with Agency standards, practices, policies, procedures, or regulations

5. BA in Financial Management with 7 years of Experience

  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from the leadership team, physicians, staff and patients.
  • Proven experience with building and fostering strategic partnerships.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to relate to and influence people at all levels of the organization.
  • Sound analytical ability, good judgment and strong operational focus.
  • Knowledge of General Accounting software, MS Excel, Word and Access or similar programs
  • Strong knowledge of the structure of accounting systems and key approaches to financial reporting and analysis.
  • Experience with a change management project for a large-scale business operations change, e.g., enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Exceptional project management and organizational skills, and problem-solving ability
  • Proven capacity to effectively manage deadlines and ensure accuracy while responding quickly and appropriately to emerging and/or urgent issues
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn new software
  • Ability to supervise and lead a team of staff, as well as motivate, lead, and support the success of unit colleagues to enable school-wide success

6. BA in Economics with 5 years of Experience

  • Working experience in accounting and finance
  • Agency industry experience and/or from a shared services background
  • Proficient in MS Office applications
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Well organised and able to interrogate data and follow up on resolution
  • Experience of working with finance systems and automation technologies
  • Must have fluency in English
  • Able to multitask and a self-starter
  • Experience in the media / creative agency industry
  • Good interpersonal relationship skills and enjoys working in a dynamic environment

7. BA in Finance with 4 years of Experience

  • Experience in financial management
  • In-depth knowledge of accounting, corporate finance, and business operations principles
  • Proficient at financial modeling, analyzing data, building reports, and providing strategic recommendations based on data and market trends
  • Experience with ERP System implementations and future customizations
  • Ability to influence the decision-making process by providing in-depth insight into various business performances
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
  • Must have an analytical mind with good organizational skills
  • Excellent leadership abilities with a problem-solving aptitude

8. BA in Corporate Finance with 2 years of Experience

  • Professional due diligence experience in Big 4 or other advisory firms, with financial institutions (e.g., Crypto exchange, bank, broker, etc.) due diligence experience
  • Strong analytical, presentation, project management and communication skills
  • Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment across multiple projects
  • Self-motivated, well-organised, with a positive attitude towards challenges
  • Outstanding business sense and commercially aware

9. BA in Healthcare Administration with 4 years of Experience

  • Extensive financial systems (Hyperion, SAP, Microsoft Office and Aero financial reporting tools) and reporting experience
  • Experience developing forecasts and operating plans
  • Exceptional analytical skills (linking results to drivers)
  • Able to direct communication with clarity at all levels
  • Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills
  • Self-motivated, results-oriented and assertive individual
  • Ability to make consistent and timely decisions
  • Ability to deal tactfully and confidently with customers/personnel at all organizational levels in independent and often stressful and ambiguous situations
  • Ability to quickly identify subtle patterns among issues

10. BA in Banking and Finance with 3 years of Experience

  • Experience in a similar role or capacity
  • Strong interpersonal skills to manage a diverse range of client representatives and JLL stakeholders 
  • Able to explain financials to financial and non-financial colleagues and clients alike
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, and the capacity to deal with ambiguity and complex problems
  • Strong proficiency in Excel, analytical and reporting skills
  • Prior experience in Property will be highly desirable
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and complex deliverables daily
  • Ability to think strategically, innovatively and make effective recommendations

11. BA in Operations Management with 4 years of Experience

  • Finance experience with progressively increasing responsibilities
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility as a peer with business leaders in the function
  • Team-oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible
  • Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities
  • Strong executive presence and ability to communicate compelling messages to senior executives and external business partners
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills with superb attention to detail
  • Well-developed strategic, analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
  • Able to thrive in an environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and customer service-oriented
  • Advanced level of Excel and PowerPoint 
  • Experience with a financial system (e.g., Hyperion, TM1, etc.)

12. BA in Strategic Management with 5 years of Experience

  • Ability to draw insight from data to communicate financial issues to stakeholders
  • Stakeholder management skills, experience of working with stakeholders to develop a strong financial understanding across the Company
  • Driven to continuously improve ways of working
  • High level of personal integrity, ethical and professional standards
  • Excellent attention to detail whilst also able to take a strategic view
  • Experience as a Finance Director in a PE-backed business in Construction
  • Experience of delivering successful growth and exit
  • Significant experience in controlling, business partnering, financial and strategic planning
  • Have strong systems skills with ERP Systems
  • Experience of managing working capital and transformation/change programmes
  • Have excellent presentation and communication skills

13. BA in Auditing with 7 years of Experience

  • Proven experience as a Head of Finance 
  • Prior experience in the financial industry
  • Solid understanding of Financial Management, Accounting and Financial Modelling
  • Experience in a senior-level finance role
  • Technical experience in financial reporting and taxation, regulation and compliance, compensation and benefits, risk analysis, cost control and contractual law, based on experience
  • Experience in BPR and Process Automation
  • Financially astute and commercially aware/business savvy
  • In-depth understanding of cash flow management, bank reconciliation and bookkeeping
  • Hands-on experience with budgeting and risk management with a depth of knowledge of data analysis and forecasting models
  • Demonstrated understanding of Korean regulatory frameworks and requirements related to Financial institutions, Electronic Money, and cryptoassets
  • Proficiency in accounting software
  • Deep understanding of the fintech industry and products
  • Knowledge and experience within blockchain and cryptoassets operations
  • Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills 
  • Proven history of working effectively with people at all levels, both inside and outside the Company and within and across a decentralised international and matrixed environment
  • Proven analytical, organisational, decision-making and project management skills
  • Demonstrated ability to execute under pressure whilst meeting deadlines
  • High degree of integrity, initiative, perseverance, and leadership skills

14. BA in Taxation with 2 years of Experience

  • Proficiency with computer applications including the Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel
  • Basic bookkeeping skills and understanding of basic concepts of internal control, managerial accounting and performing reconciliations
  • Ability to read contracts and proposals to identify internal inconsistencies, and recognize implications such as resource requirements and risk management issues
  • Excellent customer service attitude and skills
  • Ability to communicate complex information effectively, in addition to outstanding oral and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated experience in multi-tasking, being organized and detail-oriented
  • Extensive Accounting experience in a higher education setting
  • Experience with implementing internal controls and performing reconciliations

15. BA in Risk Management with 5 years of Experience

  • Proven effective leadership, communication, negotiation, team building, and long-range strategic planning skills
  • Demonstrated enthusiasm for working closely with elected and appointed officials
  • Ability to research financial data and prepare reports with that data
  • Ability to perform detailed financial analysis and data interpretation
  • Must be able to communicate verbally, make presentations and demonstrate good customer relations
  • Ability to provide supervision
  • Ability to influence, motivate, persuade, convince and train others
  • Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to subordinate personnel
  • Extensive knowledge of federal, state and local laws about municipal finance administration and public services administration
  • Extensive knowledge of municipal government operations
  • Must be able to communicate in writing
  • Must be able to maintain confidential information and accurate records
  • Excellent file maintenance and organization skills
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and promptly
  • Ability to meet deadlines both internally and for outside agencies
  • Ability to learn, understand, and adhere to all applicable safety precautions and procedures

16. BA in Healthcare Administration with 2 years of Experience

  • Previous financial services experience
  • Understanding and experience of accounting and financial statements
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent organization and time management skills
  • Experience in multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel)
  • Experience with Xero 
  • Experience in retail or consumer goods
  • Well-organized, hands-on, and analytical skills

17. BA in Financial Planning with 5 years of Experience

  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and the Google Suite with some knowledge of database basics (e.g., Microsoft Access, SQL) and OneStream
  • Well-polished oral and written presentation skills
  • Ability to summarize complex concepts into simple, understandable, and easy-to-follow presentation materials
  • Strong ability and desire to work with mathematical concepts (discounted cash flow analysis, statistics, probabilities, algebraic expressions, etc.)
  • Able to draw valid conclusions from data sets and to mentor individuals to develop the ability to draw similar conclusions from similar data sets
  • Experience managing teams in a fast-paced, high-throughput environment
  • Excellent teamwork skills with the ability to establish productive working relationships with executives and staff in other departments, as well as leading cross-functional working teams
  • Detailed knowledge of DISH financials (all business lines) or a similar subscriber-related business

18. BA in Public Administration with 3 years of Experience

  • Accounting and analysis experience in the insurance or financial services industry
  • Ability to analyze data and research accounting and financial issues
  • Strong communication skills enabling them to work effectively in person or remotely with other departments to resolve complex issues and lead necessary meetings effectively
  • Ability to multitask and handle multiple projects and priorities
  • Technical expertise must include strong knowledge of Excel, accounting, and general ledger systems
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-company, multi-systems environment with regular deadlines is the key to success
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills, CPA, MBA
  • Excellent communication skills - both written and oral
  • Advanced Excel and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated ability in managing multiple Senior Stakeholders within a medium to large organization
  • Planning and organizational skills including effective time management

19. BA in Management Accounting with 7 years of Experience

  • Experience in Business Partner Finance Roles
  • Experience supporting a sales/services organization as a finance business partner
  • Experience managing a team
  • Strong record of career advancement with a well-rounded background in functions including financial planning, business partnering, and Marketing/Sales financial support
  • Ability to work across a geographically dispersed organization
  • Experience managing a P&L and delivering results
  • Ability to understand the business, beyond finance
  • Strong ability to think strategically
  • Strong financial modeling and analysis skills (holistic and detailed)
  • Demonstrated ability to build reports and access large volumes of data across multiple systems
  • Proactive and constructive style of engagement with business leaders to earn credibility as a finance partner who adds value and helps drive business results
  • Proven ability to build business relationships at all levels throughout an organization
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and competing priorities
  • Ability to package financial data/information in an executive manner, focused on driving business decisions
  • Effectively translate strategies into financial plans
  • Self-directed leader able to adapt quickly to changes in priorities and business conditions
  • Proven track record of effectively managing/leading high-performance teams

20. BA in Investment Management with 4 years of Experience

  • Strong capability/experience with the use of Financial Dashboards / Business Reporting / Financial Analytics / Prescriptive analytics development, and support
  • Experience in Big 4, MNCs, Real Estate or Finance Industry
  • Strong capability/experience with the use of Financial Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
  • Strong capability with Vietnam Accounting and Tax
  • Strong understanding of International Governance and Risk compliance systems
  • Strong understanding of Financing Investment modelling
  • Excellent English communication (Verbal and Written)
  • Be proactive with all aspects of the approach to role responsibilities
  • Great strategic and financial planning experience with care to detail, willing to have a hands-on approach to work
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