FIS Looking for Senior Director Finance at Cincinnati, Ohio Full Time

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired :

Bachelor of Finance

Travel Percentage :

5 – 10%

Job Description

Lead finance efforts in supporting Corporate Development and Corporate Strategy leadership on key company priorities

• Provide finance partnership to Head of M&A and Head of Corporate Strategy
• Ensure rigorous financial analysis, modeling and due diligence for potential transactions and needle-moving organic strategic options
• Develop effective valuation tools for acquisition targets that reflect the targets’ standalone trajectory as well as FIS’s value creation potential after integration
• Collaborate with external advisors including management consultants and investment bankers on projects that deliver on FIS’s strategic priorities
• Lead a high-caliber multidisciplinary team of professionals with background in corporate finance, strategy and M&A

Leverage capital markets and shareholder value expertise to shape FIS’s strategy and executives’ perspective

• Collaborate with business FP&A teams to bring shareholder value perspective to annual recurring processes such as long-range planning (LRP), target setting, resource allocation, capex envelope
• Partner with executive leadership to answer strategic questions such as growth vs. profitability trade-off, optimal capital allocation, divestiture candidates
• Become thought-partner and go-to resource for FP&A leadership on business and capital market topics with material potential external impact (eg, stock buybacks, investor relations)
• Synthesize investor and analyst perspective to influence operating trajectory

Provide unique insight into FIS’s business drivers, industry/competitive dynamics, and proactively identify strategic moves that drive value creation

• Actively monitor major industry developments to periodically provide update on major competitor moves and their impact on FIS products and businesses
• Explain capital market performance of peers in context of their operating performance trajectory. Routinely benchmark FIS against peers on major KPIs (growth, margin, capex)
• Design executive level presentations and prepare presentations for internal and external audiences including the Board of Directors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS

The candidate will have a strong work ethic, be a self-starter, and be able to be highly influential in a matrixed, collaborative environment. This position offers broad exposure to all aspects of the company’s business, as well as significant interaction with all the business leaders. Importantly this person will possess:

Basic qualifications:

• 12 or more experience of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (eg, Masters/MBA/JD/MD); or a minimum of 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in areas of strategy, corporate finance, and M&A/Corporate Development would be ideal
• Excellent analytics and problem-solving skills with demonstrated intellectual/analytical rigor
• Brings immediate credibility with deep experience of shareholder value analytics and fundamentals as well as exposure to capital markets ecosystem (analysts, investors)
• Strong expertise in leading financial elements of M&A, including financial modeling, financial analysis, due diligence or post-merger integration and performance tracking
• Strategic, hands-on, business driven’ finance instincts and business acumen. Must possess the ability to influence and lead across the organization in a matrixed environment. Can effectively partner with finance and business operations leaders.
• Outstanding communication (oral, written) and presentation skills including storytelling; comfortable in building and supervising senior executive ready documents
• Ability to build peer-like relationships with senior executives and influence them with compelling messages and thought-provoking analyses
• Strong track record of building, leading and mentoring teams of smart professionals
• Solid understanding of the Payments ecosystem would be a strong plus

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Vaccination Requirements

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.