Sr Director Analyst - CFO Frontier Insights

Role Overview

This is an individual contributor role, based remotely in Canada. Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director serves as a leader within Gartner’s Business and Technology Insights (BTI) group, establishing oneself as a credible voice within their designated market at local, regional and global levels.

What You Will Do

Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have insights” content, develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership, and provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We’re looking for highly curious, bold and critical thinker who would thrive in an environment centred on producing provocative, forward-looking insights to help CFOs reshape their finance functions and enterprises for 2030 and beyond.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred
• 12+ years’ experience working in a finance function, ideally with 2+ years of recent AI experience.
• Career exposure in strategic finance or special projects with the CFO that cut across finance processes and workflows, data sources and technologies.
• Provocative and forward-looking perspectives for CFOs, rooted in professional experience, on how AI and emerging technology trends are (or will) reshaping finance functions and their future role within enterprises
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate ambiguity into clear narratives, stories and teachings that would spark CFO action.
• Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
• Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability
• Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions
• Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges
• Strong communication skills - able to explain complex concepts concisely and simply
• Subject matter expertise; comfortable presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements
• Strong business and financial acumen
• Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market
• Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicultural global team
• Learning agile and adept with navigating highly matrixed environments
• Ability to represent Gartner's research methodology and strategies effectively at all levels
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%

Benefits

• world-class benefits
• highly competitive compensation
• disproportionate rewards for top performers
• generous paid time off policy
• charity match program

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