Sr. Financial Analyst - Technology

Job Description

Senior Financial Analyst - Technology

As a Senior Financial Analyst for Equifax, you will be responsible for leading finance support for a technology alliance, working closely with business leaders and their leadership teams. This includes assisting the leaders in the decision-making process, providing insightful and actionable financial analysis, applying standard methodologies and fresh perspectives to solve complex problems. Influence the actions and initiatives within the alliances they support to enable the function to achieve strategic and financial targets.

You will support the implementation and execution of driver-based forecasting. Help define and lead cost efficiency initiatives in partnership with business leaders. Partner with the technology leadership teams to deliver financial information in a concise and relevant manner, understanding customers’ perspectives and needs. Apply in-depth knowledge and experience for technology finance, maintains industry knowledge, and is able to influence technology teams towards a financial strategy.

Who is Equifax?

Equifax is a global information solutions company that uses trusted unique data, creative analytics, technology and industry expertise to power organizations and individuals around the world by transforming knowledge into insights that help make more informed business and personal decisions.

Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our people makes a difference in our business.

We are looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we transform our business and help people live their financial best!

Responsibilities:

• Drive value streaming planning, bottoms up budgeting and driver based forecasting activities, working with various countries and areas of the business, and ultimately responsible for the timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of the budget and forecast of the technology alliance, including delivery of report summaries and presentations.
• Analyze Technology spending (operating expense and capital) trends, and prepare actionable reports and synopsis of the business results for reporting to the business and management.
• Lead monthly financial forecasts discussions, including expenses, headcount, capital risk/opportunities and other metrics.
• Understand technology, and technology strategy in order to develop business cases along with the business case sponsor and various business areas.
• Assist in the implementation of new standardized reporting model (COGS, COS, Development, G&A, etc.).
• Work collaboratively with other FP&A team members in preparing monthly forecasts and the annual budget, finding opportunities to improve financial outlooks, and other financial analysis and projects.
• Develops work plans for projects or initiatives of moderate to high complexity.
• Provides direction, mentoring, and prioritization to others on the Tech Finance team.

What makes you a great fit for this role?

• You've attained a Bachelor's degree in Finance or a related discipline.
• You have 5–7 years of Financial Planning and Analysis experience, including handling full P+L’s for technology teams of large organizations.
• You have Technology Finance experience, including the preparation and presentation of complex business cases.
• You're experienced in Cloud-based IT environments.
• You have experience with visualization tools i.e. Tableau or Spotfire.
• You're proficient in Hyperion Planning and Essbase.
• You've worked with Aha! and similar planning tools.
• You've made decisions guided by policies in judgmental situations that impact the achievement of objectives.
• You have strong critical thinking skills, ability to adapt and prioritize multiple tasks, and multi-task given multiple business demands.
• You're able to work as a member of a team and influence others.
• You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including business leaders.

What will make you stand out?

• MBA or Master’s level degree
• Possess a financial designation (CPA preferred)
• Experience using, Oracle Projects and/or OBI (Business Intelligence Objects)

The Perks of being an Equifax Employee?

We offer an excellent compensation packages with high-reaching market salaries and 401k matching, along with the works: comprehensive healthcare packages, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Location

This position sits in our Alpharetta location, which includes a state of the art gym / fitness center, onsite dry cleaning services, onsite café with “Grab & Go” selections and mobile pay options, food trucks Monday through Thursday, and car wash services.

To speak to us about this role in more detail apply online.

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