The Strategist is a director focused on defining the future of the company to enhance business performance and shareholder value. The Strategist provides a financial perspective on innovation and profitable growth, leverages this perspective to improve risk awareness, strategic decision-making, and performance management integration, and translates the expectations of the capital markets into internal business imperatives. This role is oriented toward long-term, strategic issues, and is outwardly directed.

Accounting, control, risk management, and asset preservation are the proficiencies of the Steward. The Steward must ensure company compliance with financial reporting and control requirements. Top-of-mind issues for the Steward are information quality and control rationalization.