Senior Director, Commercial Finance Deal Desk

Role Overview

The Senior Director will set the strategy and lead the team responsible for finance review of material deal exceptions and nonstandard commercial terms. This leader will advise senior executives on the financial implications of proposed arrangements, establish consistent decision frameworks, and ensure that deal structures support UKG’s financial objectives while meeting policy and approval requirements.

What You Will Do

Set the vision, priorities, and multi-year roadmap for Commercial Finance Deal Desk, aligning its governance model and resources with UKG’s growth plans, financial objectives, and evolving enterprise deal landscape. Lead finance workstreams for strategic initiatives, including CPQ automated workflows, process transformation, and stakeholder enablement.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You are an experienced finance leader who can shape strategy, lead a team, and influence decisions at the executive level. You are effective at turning transaction-level analysis into broader insight, setting clear direction for a function, and building partnerships that improve how the organization makes and executes decisions.

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience in commercial finance, deal desk, strategic finance, corporate finance, or a related function in a SaaS or technology business.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing teams, setting functional direction, and building scalable operating processes.
• Strong understanding of enterprise SaaS economics and the financial considerations in complex transactions, including recurring revenue, margin, deal structure, payment terms, discounts, implementation or development fees, cash flow, and risk.
• Experience advising senior executives and presenting clear, well-supported recommendations on material financial or commercial decisions.
• Ability to establish and apply policies, approval frameworks, decision rights, and controls while maintaining effective business partnerships.
• Excellent analytical, communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and directly.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Performance-based bonus plan
• Restricted stock unit awards
• Paid holidays

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