Senior Finance Officer

Synopsis of the role

As the Emerging Markets Senior Finance Leader, you will be part of the Finance Business Partner team within our International Business Unit, reporting solid lines into the International SVP Finance (SFO) and dotted line into the Region Head. You will work closely with the business leaders across the Region to deliver dedicated and insightful financial analysis to enable the Business Unit to reach its financial objectives. As a member of the Region Leadership Team, exceptional communication, trust-building and partnering skills are critical.

The position will interact frequently with Sales leaders to deliver financial information and insights in a concise and relevant manner to feed effective decision-making. The position is also responsible for pricing strategy and execution, evaluating product profitability, capital allocation projects, and overall profit and loss results in support of long-term planning and execution.

The position will lead a team of finance professionals, setting strategic direction and ensuring the execution of deliverables. Additionally, as the Senior Finance Leader of the Emerging Markets team, you will also offer coaching and mentoring to the controllership team with the Region controller reporting on a dotted line basis.

As part of the Equifax Global Finance and Operations Organization, this individual will work with the global Finance and Ops teams to implement and utilize advanced cloud based financial analytics, with the opportunity to advance within the Equifax global financial organization — across 25 countries worldwide.

What you'll do

• Serve as the lead SFO for India and Emerging Markets
• Serve as an active business partner with the local leadership team (Region Head, Business Leaders, General Managers, etc.) in identifying and addressing financial and business issues, bringing effective information to bear, supporting timely decision-making, and personally driving action and results on initiatives where appropriate.
• Serve as the local finance representative for statutory purposes, including managing relationships with local board members, local external auditors and tax authorities.
• Analyze business unit expense (operating and capital) and trends, and the preparation of reporting and synopsis of the business results to management.
• Manage development of people, influence key decisions, and provide general team leadership and direction.
• Oversee preparation, reporting and analysis of financial information for Region operations, including budgets, forecasts, and monthly analyses of results.
• Prepare executive summaries and conduct monthly financial reviews with business unit leadership that help highlight key trends, variances, strengths and weaknesses within the business. Help identify appropriate action plans which respond to opportunities and issues.
• Provide actionable analysis of revenue, customers, product lines, volumes, operating costs, profitability and capital projects in support of key business unit decision-making.
• Lead pricing strategy and execution, evaluating product profitability in support of long-term planning and execution.
• Prepare annual budgets which reflect market conditions, key business drivers and strategic and operating initiatives, and properly balance realism with healthy stretch objectives. Help identify action steps to ensure successful delivery against budgets.
• Lead development of business cases for capital expenditures and other key initiatives.
• Support commercial planning and analysis including revenue recognition.
• Lead contract and pricing reviews and administration of sales incentive plans with the Region Head and HR Leader.
• Anticipate business needs, and maintain a strong understanding of key business drivers and industry trends.
• Identify, recruit, develop and retain a high-performance team of professionals; provide direction, feedback, coaching and prioritization to the team

What experience you need

• Should be a Qualified Chartered Accountant
• Should have minimum 18 yrs years Financial Planning and Analysis experience including full P&L management
• Should have at least 8 yrs of experience in pricing strategy and supporting sales or revenue-generating teams
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading a team of finance professionals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with team members at various levels, including Executive Leadership team, peers, and staff
• Demonstrated experience successfully leading team of financial analysts
• Flexibility to travel locally and internationally as and when required

What could set you apart

• Experience with M&A
• Experience in Financial Services, Data or Technology company
• Experience creating and presenting complex business cases and participation of new product introduction, capital expenditure or other business development and M&A activities
• Demonstrated success collaborating with Finance, Sales and Technology functions
• Experience using MS Office, Google Suite, Tableau, TM1, Hyperion, Oracle Projects and/or OBI (Business Intelligence Objects) or any relevant business intelligence reporting platform. Strong PC skills, with a particular emphasis on Microsoft Excel