Associate Director Strategy

Job description

**Role & responsibilities** The Associate Director Strategic Office will function as a highimpact strategic and business analytics partner to the VP Finance & Strategy, supporting the CEO and CFO agenda through rigorous analytics, operational insights, and decision support. The role focuses on support functions and operations, synthesizing data across finance, HR, IT, procurement, real estate, shared services, and core operations to enable factbased leadership decisions, enterprise prioritization, and performance improvement. **Core Responsibilities** **1. Strategic & Business Analytics** - Act as the primary analytics lead for the Strategic Office under VP – Finance & Strategy. - Own enterpriselevel metrics and insights across: - Cost, margin, and productivity - Headcount, capacity, and utilization - Operating leverage and efficiency - Design and maintain executive dashboards, scorecards, and KPI frameworks for leadership reviews. - Conduct structured deep dives, root cause analyses, and trend diagnostics to inform strategic decisions. **2. Support Functions & Operations Performance** - Partner with functional leaders (Finance, HR, IT, Procurement, Real Estate, Shared Services) to: - Assess performance vs plan - Identify productivity and costoptimization levers - Perform endtoend operational analyses, including: - Demand vs capacity - Costtoserve and unit economics - SLA, quality, and service performance - Support efficiency and transformation initiatives (automation, GenAI, operating model changes) with quantified business cases and benefit tracking. **3. VP – Finance & Strategy / CFO / CEO Office Enablement** - Serve as a trusted analytical advisor to the VP – Finance & Strategy on strategic and crossenterprise topics. - Support CFO and CEO office priorities through: - Onepage decision notes and executive insights - Scenario analysis, sensitivities, and tradeoff evaluations - Board, ELT, SLT, QBR and investor support content - Proactively surface insights, risks, and decision implications rather than respond reactively **4. Scenario Planning & Decision Support** - Build and maintain scenario and sensitivity models covering: - Growth vs margin tradeoffs - Cost inflation and productivity offsets - Scaleup / scaledown and organizational design decisions - Support longrange planning (LRP) and annual planning from a holistic enterprise lens, beyond siloed functional views. - Assess strategic initiatives, investments, and priorities with clear financial and operational implications. **5. CrossFunctional Alignment & Governance** - Operate as an enterprisefirst, neutral thought partner, balancing functional priorities with overall company objectives. - Drive consistency in metric definitions, data sources, and performance narratives. - Ensure followthrough on leadership actions driven from analyticsled reviews. - Act as a connective layer between Strategy, Finance, Operations, and Corporate Functions. **Key Deliverables / Success Measures** - Improved quality and speed of leadership decisionmaking. - Clear visibility into operational and supportfunction performance drivers. - Tangible cost savings, productivity gains, or margin improvements. - Reduced ambiguity and alignment gaps across enterprise metrics. - Strong trust and credibility with VP – Finance & Strategy, CFO, and CEO Office **Required Experience & Qualifications** **Experience** - 8–10 years of experience in Strategy, Corporate Finance, FP&A, Consulting, Business Analytics, or CEO/CFO Office roles. - Strong exposure to operationsheavy or servicesled environments. - Demonstrated experience working with senior leadership and crossfunctional stakeholders. - Proven ability to translate analytics into clear business decisions and actions. **Skills & Capabilities** - Exceptional analytical rigor and structured problemsolving. - Advanced financial and operational modeling skills. - Ability to simplify complex data into crisp, executiveready narratives. - High comfort with ambiguity and evolving priorities. - Strong influencing skills without formal authority. - Excellent written and verbal communication. **Suitable candidates can share their resume at mtanwar@r1rcm.com**