VP, Business Planning & Analytics

F&G is hiring for a VP, Business Planning & Analytics. This role is housed within the Retail Business Unit but will have accountability for supporting key shared services needs in addition to the needs of the Business Unit. The role has accountability for two main functions with each having a dedicated support team that will interact with each other significantly:

Business Planning & Profitability: This role is responsible for the planning, management and optimization of Retail, IT, People Operations and F&G project expense.  Focus will be on ensuring clear and complete business cases are developed for initiatives, tracking, reporting and managing project expenses against budget, and monitoring project delivery against planned outcomes and benefits Key to this role is the partnership with business and Finance leaders to lead modeling business metrics to quantify financial impacts and support financial summaries that allow for ease of expense management and optimization.

Analytics: This role is responsible for delivering Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics capabilities for the majority of the organization. Exceptions are areas that have developed their own functional practice.  Additionally, this role is responsible for development, and mainteinance of functional guidelines and best practices for the both functions to ensure the entire organization is consistently wielding the capabilities in a consistent and controlled manner.  Key to this role is the partnership with business and IT leaders to identify data needed to meet business needs and support efforts to make the data available for use how and it is needed.

This is a key role for the organization and requires the ability to develop and lead technical teams spanning multiple domains of expertise and to develop and maintain positive and constructive relationships with senior leaders.  This role also requires the ability to prepare and deliver presentations covering complex topics to leaders across the organization to facilitate optimal decisioning within F&G.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Partners with Retail, Enterprise Services, and Finance subject matter experts to ensure business cases are captured and oversee scoping effort that will drive out work effort estimations and impact assessments
• Monitor performance of projects within portfolio; work with portfolio leaders to ensure projected business outcomes as projected in business cases are realized
• In conjunction with Implementation leadership, provide a holistic communication strategy for portfolio initiatives to ensure stakeholders and sponsors have insight into portfolio of work, change requests, resource alignments and expected outcomes
• Participates in Retail & IT target setting and ensures that both short- and long-term strategic priorities are met and aligned to F&G enterprise targets
• Ability to objectively challenge and influence Retail to ensure processes and activities are geared for optimal net income and profitability performance
• Provides thought leadership to uncover opportunities, advocates and builds financial cases; objectively analyzes and challenges gaps in financial performance vs. expectation
• Plays a key role at the interface between Retail, IT & People Ops and Finance by leading the business through cyclical processes (annual planning, target-setting, budget-setting, forecasting and financial reporting) and strategy-based processes (strategic initiatives, multi-year planning and capital planning)
• Lead team to create ad hoc financial analyses to support the business financial and operational execution to strategies and goals. Leverages scenario modeling to consider future outcomes to inform the Retail and IT strategy and planning
• Analyzes and interprets information in sophisticated and audience appropriate ways; helps tell the Retail and IT financial and strategic story
• Supports preparation of business updates by providing input and insight on behalf of respective business area to senior leadership team and Finance. Helps to shape the business plan into the needs of the organization.
• Ensures consistency of Retail and IT strategy with enterprise-wide Finance policies, strategies and targets
• Develop financial insights and analysis across Retail and IT leadership team and proactively identify areas of opportunity and risk
• Develop and maintain Retail and IT Expense and forecast models to illustrate impact and return of near-term and longer-term strategic goals within the portfolio; Work with stakeholders and utilize benefit outcome analysis, to determine an optimal investment mix to maximize expenses & portfolio value
• Frequently interact and coordinate with other departments to address business issues and to meet organ