The Assistant Vice President, Corporate Performance Management provides enterprise-level leadership in corporate planning and performance management. The role is accountable for translating company strategy into integrated plans, forecasts, and performance insights, overseeing APE and KPI governance, and partnering with senior leaders to drive strategic execution, value creation, and risk management across the organization.
Job Accountabilities
Strategy
- Provide leadership-level understanding of the company's business plan, operating environment, and strategic direction, and assess the enterprise impact of internal and external developments.
- Identify and articulate areas of strategic value creation, performance risk, and emerging issues, providing insights and recommendations to senior finance and business leaders.
- Champion performance management as a key enabler of strategy execution across the organization.
Planning
- Lead enterprise-wide planning and forecasting processes, including governance, assumptions setting, challenge, consolidation, and review.
- Critically evaluate business submissions to ensure robustness, consistency, and alignment with company strategy and priorities.
- Drive alignment and synergy across business units to optimize overall enterprise outcomes.
Performance Management
- Oversee development, tracking, monitoring, and continuous enhancement of APE and key enterprise KPIs.
- Ensure delivery of high-quality, timely, and forward-looking management information, including analysis of key performance drivers, variances, and strategic implications.
- Strengthen reporting frameworks, tools, and processes to support effective management, project, and performance reporting.
Collaboration and Business Partnering
- Act as a trusted finance partner to senior business leaders, balancing finance discipline with commercial and operational priorities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships and credibility across the organization to influence decision-making and performance outcomes.
- Proactively understand business needs and translate them into relevant performance insights and financial analyses.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Ensure all policies, procedures, and programs are implemented consistently and effectively within the function.
- Uphold and promote Pru Life UK Compliance Standards, ensuring compliance matters are identified, escalated, and reported appropriately.
- Maintain robust governance processes to ensure integrity, accuracy, and transparency of performance information.
People Leadership and Capability Building
- Lead, coach, and develop the Corporate Performance Management team, setting clear objectives, performance standards, and development plans.
- Build team capability in analysis, planning, storytelling with data, and stakeholder management.
- Promote collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge-sharing within the team and across Finance.
Qualification:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Economics, Business Administration, Management, Insurance, or related field.
- Professional designation (e.g., CPA, CFA, Actuarial) preferred.
- Project management experience or certification is an advantage.
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to translate data into executive-level insights.
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills suitable for senior leadership audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
- Enterprise planning, forecasting, and performance management expertise.
Minimum 8–10 years of relevant experience, preferably in Insurance, Finance, or a strategic business environment, with demonstrated people leadership experience.
