Senior Director, Finance Business Partner (Hybrid)

Company Description

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We help to redefine lending practices, uncover and prevent fraud, simplify healthcare, create digital marketing solutions, and gain deeper insights into the automotive market, all using our unique combination of data, analytics and software. We also assist millions of people to realise their financial goals and help them to save time and money.

We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agrifinance, insurance, and many more industry segments.

We invest in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data and to innovate. A FTSE 100 Index company listed on the London Stock Exchange (EXPN), we have a team of 23,300 people across 32 countries. Our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland. Learn more at experianplc.com.

Job Description

We are looking for a strategic and commercially minded Senior Director, Finance Business Partner to support the Global Chief Technology Officer (GCTO) organization within Technology & Innovation (T&I). You will be a trusted advisor to senior technology leadership, guiding financial strategy, investment governance, cost optimization, and performance management across a complex global technology landscape.

You will partner with technology organizations, promoting data-driven decision-making while balancing innovation, risk management, and value creation.

This is a hybrid role out of the New York City office. You will report to the Head of T&I Financial Management.

You'll have the opportunity to:

Strategic Partnership

• Be the lead finance partner to the Group Chief Technology Officer (GCTO) and the T&I senior leadership team.
• Shape and influence the financial strategy for global technology investments, including infrastructure, cloud, platforms, data, and engineering.
• Translate business and technology strategies into actionable financial plans and investment roadmaps.
• Provide clear, forward-looking insights that drive prioritization and capital allocation decisions.

Planning & Performance Management

• Lead annual planning, long-range planning (LRP), and rolling forecast processes for the GCTO organization.
• Oversee operating expense and capital investment budgets of significant scale and complexity.
• Manage KPIs and dashboards that link technology spend to business outcomes and value realization.
• Identify risks and opportunities, recommending mitigation and optimization actions.

Investment Governance & Value Realization

• Drive financial rigor around business cases, ROI modeling, and post-investment tracking.
• Establish and enhance governance frameworks for large-scale technology programs and transformation initiatives.
• Ensure alignment of spend with priorities and enterprise financial commitments.

Cost Optimization & Transformation

• Partner with technology leaders to improve cost transparency, benchmarking, and unit economics (e.g., cloud cost management, run vs. change analysis).
• Identify efficiency opportunities while maintaining operational resilience and innovation capacity.
• Support transformation initiatives, including automation, modernization, and vendor optimization.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Present financial insights and recommendations to executive leadership and enterprise finance.
• Influence stakeholders including Product, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Procurement, and Strategy.
• Lead and develop a finance team, encouraging a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Qualifications

Your background:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related area preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive finance experience, including experience supporting technology organizations.
• Track record partnering with senior executives (SVP/EVP/C-level).
• Experience in technology finance, capital investment planning and governance, financial modeling and scenario analysis, and large-scale budgeting and forecasting.
• Experience translating complex technical concepts into financial insights.
• Executive presentation skills.

Additional Information

Benefits/Perks:

• Great compensation package and bonus plan.
• Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K.
• Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office.
• Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays.
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