Capital Budgeting / Investment Management Analyst - Remote US

Senior Director, Capital Budgeting / Investment Management

We’re looking for a Sr. Director of Finance well versed in investment management, cost optimization, and financial modeling to help CFOs and senior finance leaders effectively evaluate and allocate resources across the company.

The Gartner Finance Practice, with the recent acquisition of CEB, is synonymous with frame-breaking research in the finance domain on initiatives including, but not limited to growth investment & cost structure, finance process excellence, finance technology optimization, and budgeting, planning & forecasting, and financial data & analytics. The team works with more than 1000+ client organizations, spanning every major industry vertical, across the world. Our research helps CFOs and their direct leadership teams address their unique challenges by relying on original primary research, benchmarks, insights and analysis delivered through an advisory model.

If you’ve spent a good part of your career in Finance focused on capital budgeting and cost optimization and want to share your expertise with senior executives grappling with tough decisions and challenges and advise clients across industries outside the traditional consulting engagement model, then this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

·Serve as an authority on FP&A

Research and represent thought leadership and advise senior Finance leaders on best practices in the FP&A process transformation, covering aspects including:

• Capital budgeting and general investment management, including experience working with multiple stakeholders to develop a strategic investment plan, and business case development.
• Financial modeling using discounted cash flow techniques, and ROI calculation.
• Cost optimization, including cost program management, profitability analysis or products and customer, cost allocation.
• Managing IT business cases and IT ROI
• Managing marketing business cases and marketing ROI
• Provide direction to senior finance leaders.
• Develop and extend advice and frameworks through written research.
• Create materials for and deliver both face-to-face and video-based presentations and discussions with clients.
• Help rapidly expand the expertise domain for a high-growth practice area.
• Ensure integrity of our research and maintain Gartner independence.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 10+ years of experience in FP&A / finance roles
• The ideal candidate will have served in a variety of FP&A and/or related roles.
• Stellar writing and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a self-motivated manner but within a collaborative team environment.
• Strong communicator who is able to explain complex concepts both concisely and simply to senior executives
• Strong willingness to challenge conventional norms and views, persistence and intellectual curiosity to evaluate leading approaches.
• Credibility to represent Gartner research methodology and strategies effectively at a senior level.

Preferred Requirements:

Masters or PhD

Broad-based industry experience as this role serves multiple industries

Who are we?

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