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Financial Director - CSDA Sales
Experian
Costa Mesa, CA, United States
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Description
Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients in more than 65 countries around the world. The company helps organizations to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, provide data security and automate decision making.
The Director of Finance – CSDA Sales will be a key member of the CSDA finance team and act as a business partner with sales and operational leadership to build and ingrain a strategic approach to the operational finance and business intelligence functions of the organization. This individual will promote high performance, drive accountability, enhance quality, and design processes and metrics that create visibility and enable the organization to meet its objectives.
The Director of Finance (CIS) will be responsible for the financial planning, reporting and analysis of the CSDA Sales organization. This position reports directly to the Vice President, Finance, Business Information and CSDA Sales. The overall team reporting into the Director of Finance – CSDA Sales includes 7 staff members in Finance. This position will be responsible for forming relationships and influencing peers within CIS, BIS and DA. Additionally, strong coordination is necessary with the other business lines, other regions, and other shared functions.
• Lead the financial planning, forecasting and reporting of the CSDA sales organization.
• Contribute to the formation and execution of the Company’s strategy and business plan by providing insight into the financial performance of the sales team.
• Develop a sales finance team focused on business partnering and driving profitable revenue growth.
• Oversee the development, preparation, and presentation of both short- and long-range revenue forecasts.
• Perform financial analysis and other ad hoc calculations and analysis of interest to senior management.
• Manage monthly reporting process to drive diagnosis of results in order to explain and quantify variances.
• Develop key performance indicators (KPI's) and productivity metrics and incorporate them into the reporting and analysis processes to link operating results with financial results and to improve accuracy.
• Ensure that appropriate systems, policies, budgets, controls, and procedures are in place to ensure data and forecast accuracy.
• Develop a great understanding of the Company’s business.
• Develop strong relationships with executives and others, both within and outside the finance department, and maintain open flow of communication, enabling deep knowledge of current events in the business.
Qualifications
Qualified candidates should have:
• Bachelor’s Degree is required, CPA or MBA strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive management and leadership experience in finance, with experience of sales incentive plans a plus.
• Advanced knowledge of accounting and finance theory with the ability to perform complex financial analyses.
• Progressive experience in financial analysis, management reporting, accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and/or project management.
• Proven ability to assist in the development of systems to improve financial performance.
• Demonstrated performance in partnering finance with operations in driving gains in business performance, revenues, market share and profitability.
• Strong leadership ability, with the capacity to balance empathy with determination, staunchly defending a strategic direction while considering the position of others.
• Experience working “hands on” and comfortable with rapid change, quick decisions and uncertainty.
• An “in-the-trenches”, tactile Finance executive who is willing to immerse her or himself in the business.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
• Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• Problem analysis and resolution at both a strategic and functional level.
• Detail-oriented executive who brings analytical traits to the organization and operates within a framework that utilizes well-defined metrics, scorecards and KPI’s.