Role Purpose
Drive growth in Loyalty by engaging with the business and providing financial leadership through business stewardship, support, and challenge
Key Accountabilities
- Assist the development of the business strategy and learn to challenge priorities
- Create business cases to support strategic resource allocation
- Evaluate longer-term cost & revenue optimization opportunities
- Perform tactical interventions with the business to close gaps vs. plan and achieve project delivery
- Develop, manage and monitor operating expense budgets
- Enhance commercial acumen by proactively engaging with business counterparts to understand business drivers and industry / competitive challenges
- Support the multi-year strategic planning process, formal budget review process and quarterly forecast review process
- Review monthly / quarterly financial performance reports and commentary of high value business areas including transparency of risks and opportunities
- Assist decision-making of senior management by assessing risks and opportunities to improve key financial and winnings metrics
- Identify improvement opportunities by benchmarking performance within / across regions
- Play a proactive role in identifying opportunities to make the broader finance team more efficient and effective, supporting the execution of new technology and ideas
Key Skills
- Ability to sustain high impact, trusted relationships and make connections across the business
- Ability to see connections between financial levers, surfaces un-intended consequences
- Ability to facilitate innovative approaches based on external thinking
- Ability to challenge the status quo, and have courage to ‘do the right thing’
- Strong technical skills (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong communication skills, verbal and written
Key Experiences
- Experienced business leader with at least 5 years of finance, strategy, and/or management consulting experience
- Loyalty experience preferred, including experience with financial modeling of loyalty programs
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, driving change, and challenging & communicating with senior leadership in a complex matrix organization
- Financial Systems (e.g. Peoplesoft, Essbase)
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in business, finance or related field required. Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience in business, finance or related field preferred
Work Model: This position offers a hybrid setup—4 days in-office for collaboration and connection, and 1 remote day each week.
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Region: Americas | Ref ID: ST-12765
