VP Strategic Data Financial Analysis

Altice USA is a cutting-edge communications, media, and tech company. We connect people to what matters most to them; texting with friends, advertising that resonates, or binge watching their favorite show. Our differentiated approach centers around technologies that push the envelope and deliver the ultimate customer experience. We're building a workforce that attracts and retains the best talent, not only to meet the needs of our customers, but that also reflects the diverse communities we serve.
Job Summary
The Vice President of Strategic Data and Financial Analysis will elevate the partnership with cross-functional teams and business leaders to guide the prioritization and planning of high-impact strategic programs by leveraging data-driven insights and financial acumen. This position is responsible for aligning strategic business initiatives with data analytics and financial forecasting, ensuring a quantitative approach to the company's project roadmap. You will develop financial models to present to senior leadership and optimize business performance across key initiatives.
Responsibilities

• Oversee the budgeting, forecasting, and prioritization of strategic programs, ensuring each new program has processes in place to regularly assess financial health and performance against budget.
• Support the company-wide strategic planning process, including the analysis of macro and micro economic factors, strategic benchmarking, current/future portfolio review, and competitive position analyses.
• Coach business units to develop an operating culture that focuses on delivering results against strategic long-range planning objectives. Consistently seek opportunities to introduce provocative ideas that challenge the status quo and encourage a culture of curiosity and external awareness.
• Lead the strategic planning process to ensure alignment around strategic priorities. Engage the business units to help them define and refine business strategy with a particular focus on designing and implementing new ideas and processes to grow the business and measure results.
• Establish and oversee a robust benefit tracking and realization framework to assess project success in delivering the intended benefits, both financial and non-financial.
• Conduct on-going market assessments to identify, evaluate and prioritize specific strategic alternatives and initiatives to drive growth and shareholder returns.
• Drive an externally-focused orientation, particularly with regard to awareness and insightful analysis of global economic, market & transaction trends, and identification & exploration of adjacencies to our core businesses to identify new opportunities and specific M&A prospects.
• Develop/refine and implement strategy and analytic processes and tools. Build analytical models and perform market and financial analyses to comprehensively value opportunities and ensure that clear explanations and well-founded recommendations are presented to the Enterprise Leadership team.
• Establish collaborative, effective and trusting relationships with key internal business leaders and functions to ensure a free flow of information and ideas.
• Develop key talent and capability in business strategy across the enterprise and serve as a talent steward for the business in this space.
• Lead the planning, evaluation and execution of key business alliances as appropriate.
• Track and report progress of delivery against plans, and highlight issues, risks and areas requiring resolution and/or replanning.
• Evolve processes, systems and tools supporting strategic and business planning.

Qualifications

• Eight to fifteen years of post-graduate experience with increasing responsibility in strategic planning and analysis, competitive intelligence, marketing/market research, corporate business development, international business management or management consulting.
• Master's in Business Administration from a top ranked institution is highly preferred.
• Strong overall business acumen, good instincts, solid financial grounding and a clear understanding of how our business operates. Excellent judgment and analytical ability to make recommendations/decisions and to resolve complex problems.
• Proven success in developing and driving growth initiatives and a track record of identifying future business opportunities and developing strategies to address them.
• Strategic thinking, planning and project management skills. A strategic thinker who balances thought leadership and best practices with strong results-orientation.
• Proficiency in analyzing financial documents, business plans and making judgment calls based on research and due diligence.
• Flexibility to manage multiple assignments and maintain confidentiality of sensitive information. Ability to thrive in a highly dynamic, time sensitive and collaborative environment.
• Leadership Competencies:
• Excellent communicator with a confident and collaborative style and adept at aligning internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to create and manage constructive tension and a culture of expected performance with business leaders and planning partners to ensure delivery on priorities and budget
• Hands-on approach to learning the Altice USA business and adaptive executive who can influence the evolution of the business for the current ecosystem
• Growth mindset and mentally primed to take on challenges and adopt effective problem-solving strategies; encourages team to embrace growth mindsets

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This position is identified as being performed in/or reporting to company operations in New York State. Salary ranges are supplied in compliance with New York State law. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is $178,500.00 - $255,000.00 / year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.
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