Director, Product Portfolio & GSCBD Finance

Role Description

The Director, Product Portfolio and (Global Strategy, Commercial and Business Development) GSCBD Finance is a strategic finance leader responsible for shaping the investment agenda across a multi-product portfolio. Partnering closely with GSCBD, product, and commercial leadership, this role owns budgeting and long-range planning, drives capital allocation decisions using rigorous investment evaluation (ROI, NPV, payback, risk), and dynamically rebalances funding as market conditions evolve. The director builds and validates business cases, defines funding models, and runs scenario and stress tests to ensure resilient decisions. They support portfolio governance, track financial and non-financial KPIs against business cases, and deliver clear, actionable insights to optimize resource allocation and portfolio performance—providing executive-ready recommendations that maximize value and strategic optionality.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Strategic Planning & Governance

• Partner with GSCBD leadership on budgets, forecasts, and long-range planning (LRP).

• Support portfolio governance (stage gates, prioritization cadences, post-investment reviews).

• Prepare materials and recommendations for GSCBD leadership.

Capital Allocation & Portfolio Optimization

• Evaluate ROI, NPV, payback, and risk profiles across the portfolio.

• Work closely with VMRD on balanced investment across core, growth, and exploratory products.

• Proactively support reallocation of funding as market and strategy evolve.

• Deliver insights to optimize resource allocation and portfolio performance.

Business Cases & Funding Models

• Build and validate product business cases.

• Define funding models with product and commercial teams.

• Run scenarios and stress-test assumptions for resilient investment decisions.

Performance Management & Analytics

• Track financial and non-financial KPIs vs. initial business cases.

• Identify variances, root causes, and corrective actions.

• Develop standardized frameworks, dashboards, and tools to monitor value, risk, and capacity.

Performance Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting

• Monitor, track, evaluate, and report performance across designated strategic functions, proactively identifying issues, opportunities, and challenges.

• Prepare regular reporting for operating expenses, performing analysis to explain underlying business dynamics and results. Maximize visualization and dashboarding capabilities to drive efficient and value-add analytics.

• Support monthly and quarterly close processes by analyzing operating expense lines and other P&L items; prepare materials for financial reviews with senior leadership.

• Assist with required forecasting and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) submission, including report generation, template management, and analysis of forecast submissions across all aspects of the P&L; provide scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis to guide decision-making.

Leadership & Capability Building

• Mentor and develop a high-performing team.

• Promote a culture of curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required; Master’s, MBA or advanced credential (CPA, CFA) preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with advanced proficiency in financial modeling (Excel), written analysis, and effective PowerPoint presentations for executive audiences.

• Hands-on experience with enterprise financial systems, including S4/HANA, Anaplan, HFM, Essbase, OneStream, or comparable platforms.

• Outstanding oral and written communication abilities; skilled at collaborating and influencing across all organizational levels.

• Strong narrative and storytelling capabilities—able to craft compelling data-driven presentations and business cases for leadership and board-level stakeholders.

• Proven ability to lead impactful change initiatives, extracting meaningful insights from analytics and driving continuous improvement.

• Strong record of partnering with and influencing matrixed teams and senior business leaders.

• Energetic, self-directed, and resilient leader who thrives in high-pressure, fast-paced environments and autonomously manages complex, competing priorities.

• Decisive and