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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