Financial Metrics and KPI Development Questions

Encompasses selecting, designing, and operationalizing financial and operational key performance indicators to measure strategy execution and business health. Candidates should demonstrate how to define what to measure, set realistic and time bound targets, establish data sources and calculation rules, account for metric relationships and trade offs, and identify limitations and unintended consequences. Skills include aligning metrics to business objectives, prioritizing leading and lagging indicators, designing dashboards and reporting cadence, driving accountability through ownership and escalation, and using metrics to inform decision making while recognizing when qualitative assessment is needed.