• Serve as a proactive business partner to the function regarding their operating spend, with strong focus on cost drivers, recovery, optimization and spend control. • Partner with the functional leaders to develop the commitment forecasts, driving accountability of the leaders by collecting transparent forecasts. • Will collaborate closely with the functional leaders on the Strategic Plan and Business Outlook, create presentation slides for the leadership team to present in their meetings on these annual views. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives, help establish targets, and manage financial performance of the functions ~ focus on managing variances and cost as well as advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities. • Support month-end close activities to ensure accounting accuracy. • Generate monthly/quarterly variance explanations and report-out to the functional leaders with clear communication on main drivers. • Maintain financial controls, compliance with corporate policy and consistency in reporting across the organization for all financial reporting. • Collaborate and track large projects including both Opex and CapEx items, inclusive of managing/tracking capital expenditures (CERs). • Continue development of processes to monitor spending, improve forecasting, drive accountability & enable transparency. • Proficient in gathering, interpreting, and communicating organizational data to better understand the business and its key drivers and assist in meeting performance objectives.