Director of Growth Strategy & Finance – Expansion Team

Director of Growth Strategy & Finance – Expansion Team

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, business, or a related field (an MBA is a plus).
• Direct experience working on expansion projects—such as launching new locations, evaluating new markets, structuring partnerships, or supporting large-scale business growth initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience in building complex financial and economic models, including pricing, forecasting, and underwriting.
• A proven track record of contributing to high-stakes decisions with tangible business outcomes.
• Strong ability to use financial insights and market data to drive strategic choices and business planning.
• Experience working on multi-stakeholder projects, ideally including real estate, public-private partnerships, or new market entry.
• Comfort presenting and communicating effectively with C-level executives and external partners.
• A background in high-growth, fast-paced organizations, with a strong sense of ownership and adaptability.
• Comfortable working across time zones and managing multiple complex projects simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Managing driving of the expansion/growth pipeline, including sourcing new opportunities, managing and evaluating inbound opportunities, diligence, negotiation and execution
• Being fully autonomous (responsible for conceptualization, design, execution and accuracy/checking) on development and checking of new economic models for new ventures being considered by CIC (product offerings, sales channels, capital sources, etc) with a strong focus on building models for pricing and contract bids for real estate projects.
• Using models to think strategically about opportunities from a holistic company perspective. You will also be making project level go/no go decisions autonomously while also driving discussions and recommendations to executive management on strategy and operational roll out where their input is required.
• Building relationships throughout the company to enable identification of opportunities to drive improvements on current processes for rolling out new ventures and quarterback initiation/implementation of new ideas.
• Evaluate growth and partnership opportunities using key metrics, demographics, competitive data, leveraging industry expertise
• Wholly owning project structuring process and negotiations with internal and external partners. Comfortable drafting term sheets, letters of intent (LOI) and investment memoranda
• Working closely with CIC’s finance and operations teams to integrate financial projections into underwriting.
• Analyzing financial results to identify revenue and cost trends at both a project and company level.
• Providing guidance to other CIC departments on making expansion/growth financial decisions
• Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure that key financial assumptions, benchmarks, and models are shared and understood across internal stakeholders involved in expansion decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Is committed to transparency, accountability, and data-informed decision-making.
• Is naturally analytical and curious, with a strong ability to distill complexity into actionable insights.
• Can operate with focus and accuracy under pressure and tight timelines.
• Takes a hands-on, humble approach—willing to roll up your sleeves and contribute at every level.
• Is passionate about innovation and supporting ventures that have real-world impact.
• Enjoys working in a collaborative, flat organization where you will engage directly with senior executives.
• Is interested in a long-term role within a growing, global company, with opportunities to evolve over time.
• Brings optimism, integrity, and patience to a dynamic and constantly changing environment.
• Is flexible working across time zones and thrives in cross-functional, international teams.