Director, Enterprise Performance & Reporting

Director, Enterprise Performance & Reporting

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The Director, Enterprise Performance & Reporting is responsible for Viasat's consolidated enterprise performance management and reporting system, serving as the business owner for enterprise KPIs, business and market insights, executive dashboards, Strategy Deployment Process (SDP) visualization, and OKR performance visibility. This role provides executive leadership with a single, trusted view of enterprise health by integrating strategic, operational, portfolio, and financial performance into a standardized management framework used for monthly operating reviews, quarterly business reviews, and executive decision-making.

The Director supports the definition, governance, analysis, and communication of enterprise performance metrics, ensuring that strategy, execution, and financial outcomes are connected through measurable results. By helping establish enterprise reporting standards, performance review processes, and executive dashboards, this role enables leaders to identify risks, monitor progress against strategic priorities, and make data-driven decisions that improve business performance.

Working closely with business leaders, Finance, Enterprise Strategy, and Engineering, the role ensures enterprise objectives, Strategy Deployment Process (SDP) priorities, and OKRs are translated into measurable outcomes with clear accountability and visibility. The role is responsible for helping define business insight requirements, metric frameworks, reporting standards, dashboard design, and analytical methodologies that transform data into actionable intelligence.

The role partners closely with Engineering, which owns the underlying enterprise data architecture, data pipelines, platforms, and automated reporting tools. Together, they deliver scalable, trusted, and highly automated reporting capabilities that reduce manual effort while improving the quality, accessibility, and timeliness of enterprise insights.

This role also collaborates closely with FP&A to incorporate consolidated financial performance and value realization metrics into enterprise reporting, and with the Director of Enterprise Strategic Initiatives to integrate portfolio health, strategic initiative outcomes, and benefit realization into a unified enterprise performance view. The result is a comprehensive performance management system that aligns strategic objectives, operational execution, portfolio delivery, and financial performance into a single enterprise source of truth.

Performance Metrics and Reporting Ownership

• Establish and maintain the consolidated enterprise reporting system, ensuring leaders have a standardized view of business performance across all business units and corporate functions.
• Establishes and supports development of business performance metrics across the enterprise, including definitions, data sources, calculation logic, thresholds, and ownership for each measure.
• Define and govern enterprise KPIs, performance measures, metric hierarchies, ownership models, thresholds, and reporting cadences.
• Ensure operational, strategic, portfolio, customer, and financial performance measures are connected within a single management system.
• Continuously improve executive visibility into organizational performance, strategic execution, and business health. Establish enterprise reporting standards that ensure consistency, reliability, transparency, and comparability across business areas and functions.
• Maintain executive, monthly operating review, quarterly business review, and board-ready reporting materials. Leverage AI and automation to reduce manual reporting effort, surface anomalies earlier, and expand analytical coverage without adding headcount.

Business Insights and Executive Analytics

• Lead the enterprise business insights capability, transforming data into actionable intelligence for senior leadership.
• Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and analytics that provide visibility into enterprise performance, trends, opportunities, and emerging risks.
• Identify key drivers of enterprise performance and provide recommendations that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Leverage AI-enabled analytics, forecasting, anomaly detection, and automation to improve performance visibility and insight generation.
• Ensure reporting moves beyond historical performance tracking to provide forward-looking business intelligence.
• Drive adoption of reporting, visualization, and analytics capabilities across the enterprise.

Strategy Deployment Process (SDP) and OKR Visibility

• Embed SDP objectives, breakthrough priorities, and strategic initiatives into enterprise performance reporting and review processes.
• Help ensure OKRs are measurable, aligned, and traceable from enterprise objectives through business units, functions, and teams.
• Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms that provide visibility into strategic execution and progress against enterprise priorities.
• Identify performance gaps, execution risks, and misalignments and drive corrective actions with accountable leaders.
• Support annual planning, strategic reviews, and objective-setting processes through performance insights and analytics.

Portfolio Performance Integration

• Partner with the Director of Enterprise Strategic Initiatives to integrate portfolio reporting into enterprise performance reviews.
• Develop visibility into strategic initiative progress, portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Ensure project and portfolio performance data are reflected in executive reporting and decision-making processes.
• Support executive prioritization and resource allocation through objective performance insights.
• Help ensure strategic initiatives remain connected to enterprise objectives and measurable business outcomes.

Data Architecture and Tooling

• Partner with Engineering and IT on the data architecture, pipelines, and tools required for reliable enterprise performance reporting.
• Define reporting and analytics requirements, evaluate tooling options, and drive adoption of the selected standard (leveraging AI whenever possible).
• Ensure enterprise reporting systems are automated, trusted, and easy to use.

Leadership, Scope, and Influence

• Lead and develop analysts or reporting professionals as the function scales
• Influence senior leaders across functions to adopt common performance standards and reporting practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on enterprise performance and business insights metrics.
• Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and data-driven decision-making.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and take responsibility for the accuracy, timeliness, and credibility of enterprise performance reporting.

Experience and Education

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, engineering, data analytics, or a related field.
• 10-12+ years of progressive experience developing executive dashboards, KPI governance models, performance management and business insight capabilities, including 3 or more years in an enterprise wide or multi business unit scope.
• 3 or more years of leadership experience, or demonstrated experience influencing and leading matrixed teams and practitioner networks.
• Continuous improvement exposure preferred: has worked inside a Lean, Six Sigma, or business system environment rather than only reading about it.
• Demonstrated experience building or materially improving an enterprise reporting or metrics system, including standing up definitions, governance, and cadence where none existed.

Technical and Functional Skills

• Strong understanding of enterprise performance management, strategic planning, and business operating systems.
• Financial acumen including P&L literacy, forecasting, performance analysis, and value realization concepts.
• Expertise in KPI development, metric governance, scorecards, and dashboard design.
• Knowledge of OKRs, strategy deployment methodologies, and enterprise performance frameworks.
• Experience with business intelligence, analytics, and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Working knowledge of AI-enabled reporting and analytics capabilities.
• Ability to partner effectively with technical teams responsible for data architecture and reporting platforms.
• Working knowledge of earned value and project performance measures sufficient to interpret portfolio health reporting produced by the strategic initiatives team.

What will help you on the job

Soft Skills and Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise perspective. Understands how strategy, operations, portfolio execution, customer outcomes, and financial performance interact across a complex enterprise.
• Analytical rigor. Uses data, evidence, and structured problem-solving to drive decisions and challenge assumptions.
• Intellectual honesty. Protects the integrity of the numbers under pressure to make results look better than they are; this is the core requirement of the seat.
• Translation ability. Moves fluently between the finance view, the operations view, and the executive view, and explains a metric to each audience in the terms it cares about.
• Systems thinking. Designs integrated performance systems that connect objectives, execution, governance,