Strategic Business Operations Advisor

Strategic Business Operations Advisor
About the Position
WEI is creating a Strategic Business Operations function to provide sustained ownership and support for important responsibilities that cross departments or require specialized analysis coordination and follow-through.
The Strategic Business Operations Advisor will work at the intersection of business and financial analysis contract review compliance recurring customer and partner reporting performance measurement and operational improvement. This is a highly visible individual-contributor position that will work closely with the Chief Operating Officer senior leadership and stakeholders throughout the company.
The successful candidate will be comfortable moving between detailed analysis and broader business issues. Assignments may include reviewing and redlining a commercial agreement evaluating the profitability of a customer or solution offering coordinating a customer compliance response validating an OEM rebate payment developing management reporting or supporting a cross-functional business initiative.
This position is intended for an experienced professional who can independently investigate a complicated business question identify the relevant contractual financial operational and compliance considerations and develop a clear practical recommendation.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform detailed financial and operational analyses to support executive and departmental decision-making.
• Develop KPIs and management reporting for departments customers programs projects services manufacturers and strategic initiatives.
• Evaluate customer program service and solution profitability as well as labor utilization cost-to-serve working-capital impacts and performance trends.
• Review and redline customer vendor and partner agreements including MSAs SOWs managed-services agreements NDAs BAAs amendments and related commercial documents.
• Identify material business financial operational and compliance risks within proposed agreements.
• Work with internal stakeholders to determine whether proposed contractual obligations are operationally and financially supportable.
• Coordinate recurring customer public-sector manufacturer and partner reporting requirements.
• Support responses to customer questionnaires involving information security privacy artificial intelligence business continuity ethics corporate policies and related compliance matters.
• Maintain organized records of approved policies standard responses supporting documents contract positions and prior submissions.
• Review contractual pricing incentives rebates credits and other financial commitments to verify that WEI receives the amounts to which it is entitled.
• Identify billing discrepancies underpayments financial leakage process gaps and control weaknesses.
• Examine cross-functional business processes and recommend improvements to efficiency visibility controls accountability and profitability.
• Lead or support high-priority initiatives sponsored by the Chief Operating Officer and other senior leaders.
• Translate complex findings into concise reports and practical recommendations.
• Help convert successful analyses and projects into sustainable reporting controls and operating processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in accounting finance business administration economics or a related discipline.
• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in contract-compliance auditing financial analysis operational auditing risk management business operations internal controls consulting commercial contract review or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret contracts and connect contractual provisions to financial and operational information.
• Strong financial quantitative investigative and analytical capabilities.
• Experience analyzing and reconciling complex data from multiple sources.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present complicated matters clearly and develop executive-ready recommendations.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to identify material risks and opportunities.
• Ability to work independently manage competing priorities and collaborate across departments.
• High degree of discretion when handling confidential financial contractual customer employee and company information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience conducting contract-compliance recovery vendor operational or financial audits.
• Experience reviewing technology professional-services managed-services reseller customer or vendor agreements.
• Experience identifying financial recoveries pricing discrepancies overpayments underpayments or revenue leakage.
• Experience developing KPIs profitability analyses management reports or analytical models.
• Familiarity with ERP business-intelligence dashboarding or financial-reporting tools.
• Experience with risk assessments internal controls process mapping compliance programs or policy development.
• Experience coordinating customer security privacy business-continuity or corporate-compliance reviews.
• Familiarity with Lean Six Sigma or other process-improvement methodologies.

What Will Make You Successful
You are intellectually curious analytical and comfortable investigating unfamiliar areas. You can move from contract language to financial data to operational realities without losing sight of the business objective. You ask thoughtful questions challenge assumptions constructively and distinguish material concerns from lower-priority issues.
You are also practical and organized. You can manage recurring obligations while responding to emerging priorities work across departments without relying on formal authority and carry an assignment from initial analysis through recommendation and implementation.
This position does not initially have direct reports. Its seniority is reflected in the complexity of the work the degree of independent judgment required and the level of interaction with executive leadership.

EEOC Statement:

WEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer: The Company believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. The Company will not discriminate or tolerate discrimination against any employee or applicant because of race color creed religion genetic information sex sexual orientation national origin age status with regard to public assistance marital or veteran status disability or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal law.