• Serve as a key member of the assigned area Leadership Team • Actively participate in strategic and tactical planning, providing a financial perspective • Work with business leaders and potential external partners to identify, plan and execute strategic profit improvement tactics • Provide financial and strategic support in various activities such as product development/exit strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, incubator and/or transformational efforts including outsourcing tactics • Partner with the Finance organization to ensure strong performance management discipline • Collaborate with other Finance functions to ensure consistent and effective decision making • Provide leadership on cross Finance or cross-organizational projects • Lead/coordinate cross-functional team meetings to facilitate and ensure sharing of information, manage customer expectations, and ensure 'one voice' of finance • Build and lead staff to support and drive departmental/corporate goals and strategy • Develop staff capabilities and cultivate talent for future advancement • Ensure that the critical success factors which drive the financial models are clearly identified and quantified, and that there are integrated, actionable, and well-documented strategic and tactical plans to support these factors and the resulting planned and forecast financials • Identify the need for and direct the development and maintenance of business and financial models and reports that support the assigned area leaders in improving, planning, and making decisions • Facilitate the business management process within the assigned area • Manage the business models and plans, focusing on meeting current business and financial expectations • Drive the problem-solving process regarding financial performance variances • Recommend actions to address variances to the assigned area Leadership Team • Design/support programs to strengthen financial literacy within the assigned area