• 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.