Senior Director, Finance - Commercial Ventures

About the Role

Are you mission-driven and passionate about helping others succeed? Do you strive to lead, follow, and act with integrity? Are you the one who honors your commitments? Is building trusting relationships an integral part of why you do what you do? Do you push limits and challenge the status quo? If you answered YES
, keep reading to discover how you can significantly contribute to Team USA's success!

The Senior Director, Finance, will play a pivotal role in shaping the commercial division’s financial strategy and ensuring robust financial management and modeling across multiple revenue streams and business units. This individual will act as a strategic business partner to senior leadership, bringing financial discipline, commercial acumen, and analytical rigor to inform business decisions and long‑term planning. The Senior Director will collaborate with key stakeholders across all divisions to support the organization’s commercial goals.

The Senior Director will also collaborate with other members of the Finance leadership team to set the short‑term and long‑term strategy for the Finance department, direct policies and procedures, and ensure overall financial goals are met.

• Develop and execute the financial strategy in alignment with the commercial division’s overall business goals and growth ambitions.
• Partner with senior management and department heads to provide financial insights that support strategic initiatives, pricing, and investment decisions.
• Evaluate new business opportunities, partnerships, sponsor ships, and event ventures through financial modeling and ROI analysis.
• Support long‑range planning and growth initiatives, including market expansion and new product and service offerings.
• Partner with business and commercial strategy leaders to construct business plans, including financial models and budget analysis.
• Periodically present to the USOPC Board of Directors and/or affiliated commercial committees to provide updates and progress of strategic objectives, challenges, and opportunities. Present to external stakeholder groups such as NGBs, LA28, UT34, and other affiliated organizations.

• Oversee all aspects of the division’s financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow planning.
• Ensure timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain KPIs and dashboards that clearly communicate financial performance to executive leadership.
• Create a phased hiring plan for the new finance team, defining roles and responsibilities to support the new commercial division/entity.
• Manage relationships with tax advisors, banks, and investors.

• Drive profitability analysis of events, sponsorship deals, new product or service proposals, and hospitality packages to optimize margin and cost efficiency.
• Support contract negotiations and commercial terms through financial assessment and risk evaluation.
• Implement systems and processes to enhance financial transparency, efficiency, and data‑driven decision‑making.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA and/or CPA preferred)
• 12‑15+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally within sports, marketing, events, hospitality, media, or professional services
• Experience with not‑for‑profit organizations
• 3+ years of experience managing people
• Experience with ERP systems
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite and other financial systems, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability
• Strong leadership skills in motivating, coaching, and developing teams
• Demonstrated experience supporting revenue‑generating teams and complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong background in financial planning & analysis, commercial finance, and business partnering roles
• Advanced financial modeling and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate financial data into business insights
• Excellent analytical,…