Corporate Finance AI Expert (Remote - Canada / Europe)

Gartner; Shefford; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research and advisory firm is seeking a Corporate Finance AI Expert at the Senior Director level to produce AI insights for finance leaders. Candidates should have over 12 years in finance roles, including AI expertise, and exceptional communication skills. This role combines client advisory with research, offering a chance to impact finance functions globally.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in finance function and technology topics.
• 3+ years specifically focused on AI for finance.
• Exposure to data science and quantitative analytics.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver business insights addressing AI priorities.
• Serve as a leading authority on finance AI topics.
• Provide actionable advice to clients.
• Support business growth through collaboration.

Skills

Finance AI vision, strategy, maturity

Finance AI use case implementation

AI governance strategies

Cost, value, and risk assessment in Finance AI

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Python

Job description

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who use exceptional research and analytical skills to create powerful business and technology insights, market predictions and grounded how-to guidance for a broad range of world-leading organizations.

The Role: We’re looking for a forward-thinking Corporate Finance AI Expert to join the Gartner Finance Practice at the Senior Director (SD) level.

As a Corporate Finance AI Expert, you will regularly produce published insights and meet with Finance leaders including CFOs, FP&A leaders, Controllers, Finance Transformation leaders and their teams to advise on their Artificial Intelligence-related questions and challenges.

The successful candidate will be comfortable discussing and researching topics including:

• Finance’s AI vision, strategy, maturity and roadmap
• Finance AI use case selection and implementation from pilot to production and scale
• Finance AI technology landscape and developments, including vendors and emerging capabilities
• Finance AI oversight and governance strategies
• Finance AI economics, including measures of cost, value and risk

Career experience with the development and deployment of AI projects within the finance function will be valuable.

What you’ll do / Key Responsibilities:

• Create unique, defensible and highly consumable business and technology insights that directly address the AI priorities and opportunities of finance leaders.
• Serve as a leading authority on finance AI topics, such as: Finance AI use cases that draw on a range of traditional, generative and agentic AI techniques; setting up AI pilots and scaling initiatives; ensuring proper governance of finance AI tools; navigating the Finance AI vendor landscape; connecting AI to finance process automation and wholesale finance transformation.
• Stay abreast of external research and trends in artificial intelligence relevant to finance audiences.
• Provide current and prospective clients with actionable advice via virtual and face-to-face interactions.
• Support business growth and client engagement strategies by partnering with Gartner’s commercial organization to create long-term value for both clients and Gartner.
• Act as an internal advisor on how AI technologies and approaches are impacting the finance function.
• Create and deliver presentations for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings.
• Build your personal brand as a functional Finance AI expert to drive Gartner’s insights, methodology and strategy.

What you’ll need:

• 12+ years’ experience working on relevant finance function and technology topics, with 3+ years of AI for finance, with increasing scope and responsibility.
• Career exposure to major finance processes and workflows, data sources and technologies.
• Experience with both the deployment of AI functionality in embedded tools and the development of homegrown or company-specific AI solutions.
• Exposure to data science, quantitative analytics, statistics, probabilistic decision-making and coding languages (preferably Python) via on-the-job experience or formalized education.
• Moderate willingness to travel; though primarily a virtual role, Analysts occasionally have opportunities for domestic and international travel.

Who you are:

• Polished communicator: Can immediately establish credibility with senior executives through strong verbal proficiency and distill key points succinctly and compellingly in written content.
• Collaborative: extremely comfortable connecting, coordinating and delivering impact with global colleagues and clients in both virtual and face-to-face settings.
• Organized: skilled at multitasking, prioritizing, and working both independently and within a team under deadlines across various project types.
• Confident: able to make sound decisions on projects and drive for results with minimal supervision (i.e., in a remote, virtual-first environment).
• Analytically savvy: able to flex strong critical reasoning skills and analytical capabilities to understand the drivers of challenges and propose solutions.
• Naturally curious: a life-long learner with an enthusiasm for exchanging ideas with others.

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