Vice President of Strategic Finance Partner; Operations Job Town of Texas Wisconsin USA,Finance & Banking

Position: Vice President of Strategic Finance Partner (Operations)
Location: Town of Texas

The Vice President, Strategic Finance Partner - Operations leader serves as the senior finance advisor to the Global Operations organization
You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work
The role shapes strategy, drives profitable growth, optimizes resource allocation, supports critical financial decisions, and leads global finance teams to maximize business performance and long-term value creation
As a trusted member of the leadership team, the Vice President evaluates investments, assesses risks and trade-offs, and provides financial leadership on the business’s most critical decisions. Partnering across the business, Controllership, Centers of Excellence, Finance Transformation, and other Global Finance functions, the role connects strategy to measurable outcomes, drives accountability, and enables informed decision-making
Serve as the primary finance thought partner to executive leaders within the supported function, shaping strategic priorities, the growth agenda, and the choices that define where the business competes and invests
Bring an independent, commercially grounded point of view to strategy discussions; challenge assumptions, surface blind spots, and influence executive decisions through insight rather than reporting
Participate as a full member of the functional leadership team and contribute to the setting of business strategy, not only its financial translation
Frame the most consequential decisions facing the function, define the options under consideration, and establish the criteria and trade-offs leadership will use to choose between them
Set the analytical agenda; determine which questions need answering and commission the required modeling and analysis from the Financial Planning and Analysis Center of Excellence
Translate analytical output into clear recommendations, and hold the line on decision quality, pace, and follow-through
Define the design of forward-looking business and economic models used to evaluate new markets, pricing and commercial models, partnerships, and operating model shifts
Shape scenario and sensitivity frameworks around the strategic uncertainties that matter most, and use them to pressure-test the durability of the strategy
Interpret long-range outlooks and competitive, market, and macro signals to anticipate inflection points before they show up in results
Co-own the functional strategy and long-range plan with business leadership, ensuring strategic choices are economically sound and value-creating
Advise on growth, portfolio, and capability-building choices, including build, buy, and partner options, and their implications for the operating model
Guide where capital, talent, and management attention are deployed across competing strategic priorities
Challenge and endorse major business cases on strategic merit and expected value, rather than preparing them
Advocate for reallocation away from lower-value activity and advise on the structural economics of the function
Sponsor post-decision reviews so the organization learns from the bets it has placed
Partner with the Center of Excellence for planning cycles, forecasting production, model building, standard reporting, and data management; help define requirements and quality standards
Set priorities and service expectations with Center of Excellence leadership, and translate its output into executive-ready insight, narrative, and recommendations
Lead a focused senior business partnering team built for judgment, influence, and strategic insight, shifting from transactional throughput to business outcome
Create a culture of curiosity,…