Experian is hiring a Senior Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis to be the primary finance partner to our global Technology Organization. You will oversee the entire financial lifecycle, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and investment governance, while creating financial transparency and strategic decision support across a multi-year technology roadmap.
What You'll Do
- Lead and inspire a global team of finance professionals to grow capacity, deepen analytical insights, and enhance reporting.
- Oversee the end-to-end Capex planning process, including annual budget, long-range planning, and ongoing forecasts.
- Partner with Technology and Product leaders to prioritize the Capex portfolio and improve investment allocation.
- Monitor investment performance against approved business cases and deliver rigorous post-investment analysis.
- Lead the review of complex business cases, including NPV, IRR, payback, and scenario analysis.
- Help measure financial benefits, cost efficiencies, and revenue enablement.
- Support executive-level presentations with decision-ready insights, stress-testing assumptions and identifying risks.
- Use advanced analytics and GenAI tools to enhance modeling efficiency, scenario planning, and insight generation.
- Lead the annual budgeting, long-range planning, and forecast processes.
- Identify trends, risks, and cost optimization opportunities, elevating the quality of financial insights.
- Analyze the drivers of Technology spend, including variance analysis against prior periods, budget, and forecast.
- Lead monthly operating reviews with senior leadership, providing clear, data-driven recommendations.
- Strengthen financial governance across the portfolio, including initiative tracking, adherence to capitalization policies, and benefit realization monitoring.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure appropriate capitalization treatment, policy compliance, and audit readiness.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, or related analytical roles, with demonstrated impact in complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience providing financial planning support to technology teams (e.g., cybersecurity, digital product, software engineering, virtual infrastructure).
- History of translating complex financial and operational data into concise, impactful insights for senior leadership.
- Experience identifying trends, risks, and opportunities that drive revenue growth, margin expansion, cost optimization, and capital allocation decisions.
- Advanced financial modeling expertise, including scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, and long-range strategic planning.
- History of making data-informed recommendations even with incomplete information.
- Experience working in cloud-based data environments.
- Experience applying automation, advanced analytics, or AI-enabled tools to enhance forecasting, reporting, and decision support.
- History of overseeing programs end-to-end and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Experience improving scalable solutions across finance functions.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel required; experience with business intelligence tools and financial systems (e.g., Tableau, Oracle, Hyperion).
Technical Stack
- Excel (Advanced)
- Tableau
- Oracle
- Hyperion
- Advanced analytics and GenAI tools
Team & Environment
You will lead a global team of finance professionals, serving as the primary finance partner to the Technology Organization and reporting to the VP of Finance.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation Range: $133,109 - $239,596
- Great compensation package and bonus plan
- Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K
- Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays
Work Mode
This role offers a flexible hybrid work environment, with the ability to work remote, hybrid, or in-office.
Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Innovation is an important part of Experian's DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, color, sexuality, physical ability, or age.
