Finance Talent Expert, Gartner Analyst

We’re looking for a forward-thinking Finance Talent Expert to join the Gartner Finance Practice. You have the opportunity to advise senior Finance leaders - including CFOs, FP&A leaders, Controllers, Finance Transformation leaders and their teams - on their most pressing talent-related challenges and questions. If you’ve spent a good part of your career working in corporate finance teams and have exposure to how finance leaders are getting the most from their people, then this expert role is for you.

The successful candidate will be ready to and energized by discussing and researching topics including:

• Building and executing a talent strategy for the Finance function

• Developing and upskilling Finance talent, including traditional finance skills, digital skills and soft skills

• Attracting talent to the Finance function with a strong employment value proposition and understanding of the labor market

• Engaging and retaining Finance talent

• Identifying what skills, knowledge and experiences successful Finance talent will need in the future

What you’ll do

You will create and deliver must-have insights for CFOs and their leadership teams through both published research and client interaction, helping them solve challenges that lead to better performance. Specifically, you have the opportunity to:

• Create unique, defensible and consumable content that directly addresses the critical talent priorities and challenges of senior finance leaders.

• Deliver high quality, actionable advice through daily virtual discussions with finance leaders.

• Create and deliver presentation materials at high-profile Gartner events and client briefings.

• Collaborate with Gartner research leaders to identify what new Finance Talent content will make the biggest impact on Finance leaders

• Support business growth and client engagement strategies by partnering with Gartner’s commercial organization to create long-term value for both clients and Gartner.

• Build your personal brand as an expert in Finance talent.

• Serve as a leading authority on Finance talent topics.

• Stay ahead of trends impacting Finance talent by synthesizing and developing your own ideas on the latest research created by Gartner and its competitors.

 What you’ll need

• 8+ years of experience in finance, ideally within a finance transformation team, controlling/accounting or FP&A.

• Alternatively, you may have experience as an HR business partner or L&D partner supporting Finance or providing consulting support on talent issues to finance leaders.

• Subject matter expertise in a broad range of talent management practices, priorities and challenges specific to Finance functions

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience, Master's degree preferred

• Ability to conduct occasional travel; though primarily a virtual role, Analysts occasionally have opportunities for domestic and international travel

Who you are

To thrive in this role, it helps if you are obsessed with your topic! Gartner analysts are correctly viewed as THE experts, meaning that you are:

• Collaborative, and enjoy connecting, coordinating and delivering impact with global colleagues and clients in virtual and face-to-face settings, including occasional 1-to-many settings (e.g., webinars, on stage at conferences)

• Organized, multitasking, prioritizing, and working under deadlines across various project types

• Confident, making sound decisions on projects and drive for results with minimal supervision (i.e., in a remote, virtual-first environment)

• Analytically savvy, flexing strong critical reasoning skills and analytical capabilities to understand drivers of challenges and propose solutions

• Naturally curious and energized by exchanging and debating ideas with others

About the Gartner Finance Practice

The Gartner Finance Practice is synonymous with frame-breaking research for CFO on initiatives including, but not limited to growth investment & cost structure, finance technology optimization, finance function strategy & org design, and financial data & analytics.  The team works with 2000+ 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 analyst & advisory model.

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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 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 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.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 105,000 USD - 140,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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