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Director of Finance jobs: 1,224 open roles, pay, industries and skills

1,224 open Director of Finance jobs, taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Finance Director, Director, Finance, Senior Director of Finance, Global Director of Finance, Regional Director of Finance. Listings that state pay show a median of $189,500 a year.

The market for Director of Finance work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Director of Finance jobs
1,224

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$189,500

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
California (194)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (21%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Listings that are remote
26%

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Listings that ask for an AI skill
18%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a Director of Finance does

Director role in Finance.

A director of finance leads a team inside the function and answers for finance, accounting and planning, and the reporting leaders rely on.

Usually reports to a vice president or a C-suite leader, and manages managers and individual contributors. Senior and global director titles are counted here.

Other ways this role is written

  • Director of Finance
  • Finance Director
  • Director, Finance
  • Senior Director of Finance
  • Global Director of Finance
  • Regional Director of Finance
  • Director of Financial Planning
  • Director of Accounting

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Director of Finance jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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Director of Finance salary

From 334 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$157,000
Median
$189,500
Upper quarter
$220,000

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for Director of Finance jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where Director of Finance jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills Director of Finance jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 812 Director of Finance listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in Director of Finance listings

  1. 1. fp&a49%
  2. 2. forecasting39%
  3. 3. budgeting30%
  4. 4. audit25%
  5. 5. excel24%
  6. 6. financial modeling22%
  7. 7. gaap19%
  8. 8. treasury18%
  9. 9. erp17%
  10. 10. variance analysis11%

Across all Finance openings

  1. 1. audit9%
  2. 2. excel7%
  3. 3. accounts payable6%
  4. 4. accounts receivable5%
  5. 5. forecasting5%
  6. 6. budgeting4%
  7. 7. fp&a4%
  8. 8. gaap4%
  9. 9. risk management3%
  10. 10. erp3%

AI skills for Director of Finance jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

18% of 587 open Director of Finance listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 2% of all Finance openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work12%
  2. 2. AI adoption and change management3%
  3. 3. AI strategy and use cases2%
  4. 4. AI workflow automation2%
  5. 5. Gen-AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude)2%
  6. 6. LLM application engineering1%

Do AI skills change director of finance pay?

For Finance roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for director of finance alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Finance listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +15.4% (about $24k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$172,000
median, from 642 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$117,500
median, from 1,282 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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Job titles under Director of Finance

The exact titles employers use, with their own job and salary pages.

Employers hiring for Director of Finance roles

  • Creative Financial Staffing 13
  • Axon Enterprise 9
  • GPAC 8
  • Anthropic 8
  • Monolith AI 7
  • Vaco 6
  • Oscar Health 6
  • Logical Media Group 6
  • NBCUniversal 6
  • Anduril Industries 5
  • Crusoe 5
  • Southwest Accounting Resources 5

Director of Finance questions

What does a Director of Finance do?
A director of finance leads a team inside the function and answers for finance, accounting and planning, and the reporting leaders rely on. Usually reports to a vice president or a C-suite leader, and manages managers and individual contributors. Senior and global director titles are counted here.
What else is a Director of Finance called?
The same job is also written Finance Director, Director, Finance, Senior Director of Finance, Global Director of Finance, Regional Director of Finance, Director of Financial Planning, Director of Accounting.
How many Director of Finance jobs are open?
1,224 verified open Director of Finance jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a Director of Finance make?
Among 334 open Director of Finance listings that state pay, the median is $189,500 a year, and half of listings fall between $157,000 and $220,000. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are Director of Finance jobs?
California (194), New York (132), Texas (108), Illinois (64) have the most open Director of Finance listings. About 26% of listings that state a work arrangement are remote.
Which state pays a Director of Finance the most?
Of the states with enough listings that state pay, California has the highest median at $227,500.
Which industries hire for Director of Finance roles?
Technology & Software (21%), Healthcare & Hospital Systems (14%), Financial Services & Banking (11%), Education & EdTech (10%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do Director of Finance jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Director of Finance listings are fp&a, forecasting, budgeting, audit, excel.
Do Director of Finance jobs ask for AI skills?
18% of 587 open Director of Finance listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI tools in daily work.

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