Director, Decision Support
About The Position
The Director of Decision Support is a strategic finance leader responsible for advancing enterprise decision-making through robust cost accounting, financial analytics, and data-driven insights. This role oversees the design, management, and continuous improvement of the organization’s costing processes and systems, while leading a high-performing analytics function that delivers both recurring and ad hoc insights. The Director will evolve the organization’s analytic capabilities from descriptive reporting to more advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics, enabling proactive, data-informed operational and financial decisions. In addition, this role is accountable for the governance, administration, and optimization of key financial subsidiary systems, ensuring data integrity, security, and scalability.
Requirements
- Strategic finance leader
- Robust cost accounting
- Financial analytics
- Data-driven insights
- Design, management, and continuous improvement of costing processes and systems
- Leading a high-performing analytics function
- Evolve analytic capabilities from descriptive reporting to advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Governance, administration, and optimization of key financial subsidiary systems
- Ensuring data integrity, security, and scalability
- Power BI dashboards and self-service analytics tools
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
- Establish and maintain data governance standards
- Introduce statistical methods, forecasting models, and scenario analysis
- Partner with IT/data teams
- Promote a data-driven culture
- Oversee administration and optimization of financial subsidiary systems
- Ensure effective system governance
- Partner with IT and vendors
- Serve as the functional owner for finance systems
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team
- Establish clear performance expectations, career development plans, and a culture of continuous improvement
- Foster collaboration across finance, operations, and IT
- Drive adoption of modern tools, automation, and best practices
Responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing management of the organization’s cost accounting methodology and processes
- Ensure accuracy, transparency, and scalability of cost allocation models to support operational and strategic decision-making
- Oversee periodic cost updates, variance analysis, and continuous improvement of costing accuracy
- Partner with clinical/operational, finance, and executive stakeholders to translate cost insights into actionable recommendations
- Lead a centralized decision support / analytics function delivering recurring reporting (financial, operational, KPI dashboards) and ad hoc analyses for senior leadership and business partners
- Drive adoption and development of Power BI dashboards and self-service analytics tools
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
- Establish and maintain data governance standards, ensuring consistency and reliability of reporting outputs
- Build and execute a roadmap to evolve analytics maturity from descriptive (what happened) to diagnostic (why it happened) to predictive (what will happen) to prescriptive (what should we do)
- Introduce statistical methods, forecasting models, and scenario analysis into decision-making processes
- Partner with IT/data teams to integrate advanced analytics tools and datasets
- Promote a data-driven culture across finance and operations
- Oversee administration and optimization of financial subsidiary systems
- Ensure effective system governance, including user access & security controls, data integrity and validation processes, and system configuration and updates
- Partner with IT and vendors to maintain system performance, enhancements, and integrations
- Serve as the functional owner for finance systems supporting costing, analytics, and reporting
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team spanning cost accounting and financial/operational analytics
- Establish clear performance expectations, career development plans, and a culture of continuous improvement
- Foster collaboration across finance, operations, and IT
- Drive adoption of modern tools, automation, and best practices to increase team efficiency and impact
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
