Technology Business Partner - FinOps

Equifax • Alpharetta, GA

159d • Onsite

About The Position

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you. This role leads the finance business partner function for a corporate technology alliance and/or security function. Working closely with business leaders to deliver proactive and insightful financial analysis to enable the function to reach its short and long term strategic and financial objectives. This role will interact frequently with GCS Technology leaders to deliver financial information and insights in a concise and meaningful manner to foster effective decision making, while developing and maintaining strong relationships. This role is responsible for evaluating strategic technology alternatives in support of long term planning and execution. This role is responsible for leading a team of finance professionals, setting strategic direction, and ensuring the execution of deliverables. This position offers the flexibility to work remotely two days a week, or from our office located in Alpharetta. (This is NOT a fully remote role.)

Requirements

• 10 - 15 years of experience in a finance related capacity, with prior experience supporting technology teams.
• Recent finance experience supporting a Cloud environment that includes transformation and migration from legacy to Cloud solutions.
• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or related; Masters degree preferred.
• Understanding of current and emerging Cloud solutions and technologies; experience supporting organizational change to migrate to an Agile/cloud environment.
• Finance experience within a data and systems security priority environment, working to support technical information/cyber security.
• Previous finance experience to include creation and presentation of complex business cases.
• Demonstrated success collaborating with Finance and Technology functions.
• Experience with the concept of Capitalized Development spending.
• Strong written and oral communication skills. Ability to clearly communicate to all levels in the organization including executive leadership team, peers, and staff.
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing team of financial analysts.
• Experience using Hyperion, Oracle Projects and/or OBI (Business Intelligence Objects).
• Strong PC skills, with a particular emphasis on Microsoft Excel/Google Suite.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Master's level degree.
• Cloud Certifications (GCP, FinOps Foundations, others).

Responsibilities

• Serves as the lead Finance business partner for a Technology Alliance in identifying and addressing complex technical, financial, operational and business issues, bringing effective information to bear, supporting timely decision-making, driving action and results.
• Responsible for analyzing technology spending (operating and capital) and trends, and the preparation of reporting and synopsis of the business results to the business and management.
• Help lead the Technology Alliance in evaluating strategic technology alternatives in support of long term planning and execution.
• Work across other Technology Alliances to promote the Consumer Care initiatives.
• Responsible for Financial management, optimization and of cost of ownership for Cloud environment, including properly tracking, managing and reporting variable costs.
• Ensure the alignment of Cloud capital expenditure with business goals and objectives by working directly with key partners and product owners.
• Oversee preparation, reporting and analysis of financial information for the Technology Alliance, including budgets, forecasts, and monthly analyses of results.
• Prepare executive summaries and conduct financial reviews with business unit leadership that help highlight key trends, variances, strengths and weaknesses within the business performance and contribute to timely management decision-making.
• Identify appropriate action plans which respond to opportunities and issues.
• Responsible for the preparation of 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 budget targets.
• Lead development of business cases for capital expenditures and other key initiatives.
• 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 team.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages.
• 401k matching.
• Paid time off.
• Organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree