Vice President of Strategic Analysis

Position Overview

The Vice President of Strategic Analysis is a senior leadership role responsible for driving corporate strategic research, operational evaluation, and robust decision-making support in a financial institution. This executive oversees the creation and maintenance of strategic analysis frameworks while performing extensive research across macroeconomics, industry patterns, competitors, operational results, capital deployment, and key investment projects. The role supplies data-backed strategic insights to the Board of Directors and upper management to steer the organization towards sustainable long-term development.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive corporate strategic analysis system that advances strategic planning and execution evaluation.
• Conduct ongoing in-depth analysis of global markets, macroeconomic conditions, industry advancement, customer trends, fintech innovations, and competitive environments, generating insightful industry and strategy reports.
• Examine corporate operational data including revenue, profitability, costs, efficiency, customer expansion, product outcomes, and regional performance to inform decisions.
• Collaborate with CFO and FP&A teams to analyze financial performance, ROI, capital management, corporate valuation, budgeting, and profitability, assisting capital markets and investment choices.
• Engage in feasibility studies, financial modeling, risk-return assessments, and synergy evaluations for mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, international growth, and business partnerships.
• Establish and manage corporate strategic data platforms, business intelligence systems, dashboards, and KPI monitoring tools to enable real-time insights and management decision support.
• Lead the integration of AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, and BI technologies to enhance market forecasting, customer behavior prediction, risk analysis, strategic scenario simulation, and operational forecasting.
• Support key initiatives such as digital transformation, international expansion, new ventures, ESG strategies, cost efficiency projects, and organizational change by providing strategic analysis and project oversight.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration among finance, strategy, marketing, product management, risk, investment, data analytics, and IT teams to enhance strategic data integration and synergy.
• Develop and manage a high-performing strategic analysis team including directors and managers in analysis disciplines, data science, and BI.

Qualifications

• Education generally requires degrees in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, Mathematics, or Statistics; advanced degrees such as MBA, Master’s in Finance, or Data Analytics strongly preferred.
• Proven 12 to 20+ years in financial sector roles including 8+ years in strategic, operational analysis, or corporate development.
• Experience with corporate strategic planning, financial and business analytics, and international business operations analysis.
• Preferred roles previously held include Director of Strategic Planning, Corporate Development, FP&A Lead, Business Analysis Director, senior consulting, or investment banking analysis leadership.
• Proficiency with corporate strategy management, financial modeling, market research, valuation, KPI frameworks, and BI/data analysis platforms.

Key Competencies

• Strategic planning and business model analysis
• Financial, market, data, competitive, and investment analytics
• Corporate finance, capital markets, wealth management, risk and fintech knowledge
• Leadership in strategic thinking, data-driven decisions, cross-department collaboration, team building, and executive communication

Reporting Structure

Directly reports to the Chief Strategy Officer, CEO, or CFO. Oversees Directors and Heads in Strategic Analysis, Business Analysis, Financial Analysis, Business Intelligence, and Market Research.

Performance Metrics

• Quality and adoption of strategic analyses and recommendations
• Achievement in strategic goals and project support success rates
• Accuracy and timeliness in financial, analytical, and business insight delivery
• Efficiency in strategic execution, data governance, BI utilization, and organizational collaboration