Corporate Finance AI Expert (Remote - Canada / Europe)

Gartner; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology consulting firm is seeking a Senior Director Corporate Finance AI Expert to provide strategic AI insights to finance leaders. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in finance and 3+ years focusing on AI applications in this field. Responsibilities include producing actionable insights, advising clients, and delivering presentations at conferences. This role emphasizes exceptional communication and analytical skills.

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation

World-class benefits

Opportunities for professional growth

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in finance function and technology.
• 3+ years of AI for finance experience.
• Familiarity with Python and data science.

Responsibilities

• Produce insights on finance AI strategies.
• Advise clients on AI-related challenges.
• Create presentations for industry events.

Skills

AI expertise for finance

Business communication

Data analysis

Collaborative skills

Organizational skills

Job description

About The Function

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. They are a trusted source of advice for clients, reinforcing Gartner’s value every day via consultative virtual and in-person meetings, sales support interactions, media coverage and conferences to discuss complex client challenges and recommended actions.

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. If you’ve spent a good part of your career working in or alongside corporate finance teams and have exposure to how those teams are getting value from AI investments in key finance processes, then this expert role is for you.

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 (e.g., the rise of agentic AI opportunities for finance)
• 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. As will deep familiarity with specific finance processes – including forecasting, planning, budgeting, record to report, and transactional finance (such as accounts payable or accounts receivable) – and collaboration with leaders in other corporate functions such as IT, Data, Legal, HR, etc.

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 (backgrounds in math, statistics and physics a plus).
• 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

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

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