Sr. Director, Corporate Strategy (Finance)

The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will play a pivotal role in the year-round process that shapes Equifax's enterprise strategy and the Business Units' (BUs) and Center of Excellence's (COEs) business strategies. You will be providing strategic recommendations to the CEO, BU/COE leaders, and their teams by creating comprehensive market and competitive assessments, providing fact and data-based analyses, and developing crisp narratives. You will drive a continuous dialogue across the organization by supporting and coordinating the annual Strategic Thinking & Planning process, in terms of content development (e.g., strategic thinking sessions) and presentations (e.g., CEO, Board of Directors meetings). You will work closely with the Business Units (Strategy, Product, Business Development, Data & Analytics, Sales, etc.) as well as with Enterprise functions (Finance, Corporate Development, Data & Analytics, Product, Technology, etc.)

This role reports to the Chief Strategy Officer and will be a hybrid workplace model offering the flexibility to work remotely as well as in our global corporate HQ building in Midtown! (This is not a fully-remote role)

What you'll do:

• You will combine internal and external intel on macro, market, and competitive events and trends (e.g., emerging business models, new capabilities, traditional and non-traditional / emerging players, ongoing M&A activity), distill key insights, and articulate relevant opportunities or threats for our company
• You will run strategy projects to assess new opportunities or identify solutions to potential threats (i.e., articulate and size the opportunity / solution, flesh out implications for EFX and potential competitive responses, lay out path for execution, prepare presentation material, socialize it with key stakeholders, and present to senior executives)
• You will assist BUs / COEs in planning and executing their strategic initiatives
• You will lead working sessions with cross-functional internal (top, middle management) and external stakeholders to identify new opportunities: facilitate the process, contribute with thought leadership, analyze and distill the outcome of the sessions, and create executive-level recommendations or feed them into the annual strategic planning process
• You will partner with M&A and BU teams to assess the strategic fit of potential acquisition targets and partners, and support them in shaping up the business case
• You will support annual Strategic Thinking & Planning process: identification and prioritization of opportunities, coordination of BUs and COEs and creation of an enterprise view, stress-testing of financial projections / forecasts, preparation of material for key meetings with CEO and Board of Directors
• You will act as liaison between Corporate Strategy and BUs / COEs to keep the latter ones appraised with the enterprise strategic direction and collect from them input on main trends, events, opportunities, issues, and decisions in their businesses

What experience you need:

• 7+ years of experience in strategy roles, of which 3+ in Top Tier management consulting firms, with a proven track record of (a) leading strategy projects while working across multiple stakeholder groups and (b) defining and delivering a cross-enterprise strategy
• Highly independent in thinking and framing problems, driven by intellectual curiosity
• High degree of comfort on managing multiple assignments and shifting priorities
• Strong quantitative and problem solving skills
• Refined skills in developing and delivering compelling presentations
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to align and coordinate internal resources
• High energy, with strong will and ambition to learn and work on new things

What could set you apart:

• MBA strongly encouraged but not required
• Executive presence and comfort with presenting to senior executives
• Experience in the Financial Services industry is preferred

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