Corporate, Business Unit Finance AI Expert; Remote

About the Role

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must‑have insights, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world‑leading organisations. They serve as leaders within Gartner’s Business and Technology Insights (BTI) group, establishing themselves as a credible voice within their designated market at local, regional and global levels. Using exceptional research and analytical skills, they produce pragmatic and provocative insights that Gartner clients consume and apply to propel their business toward key objectives.

They are a trusted source of advice for clients, reinforcing Gartner’s value every day by engaging them via in‑person and virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner conferences to discuss complex client challenges and offer appropriate recommendations.

We’re looking for a forward‑thinking Corporate Finance AI Expert to join the Gartner Finance Practice. The role will involve regularly producing published insights, meeting with Finance leaders including CFOs, FP&A leaders, Controllers, Finance Transformation leaders and their teams to advise on Artificial Intelligence‑related questions and challenges. A successful candidate will have career experience with the development and deployment of AI projects within the finance function, deep familiarity with specific finance processes – including forecasting, planning, budgeting, record‑to‑report and transactional finance – and collaboration with leaders in other corporate functions such as IT, Data, Legal, HR, etc.

The position will also involve researching and discussing topics such as Finance’s AI vision, strategy, maturity, roadmap, AI use‑case selection, technology landscape, oversight and governance, economics, and risk.

• Create unique, defensible and highly consumable business and technology insights that directly address the AI priorities and opportunities of finance leaders.
• Serve as a leading authority on finance AI topics, including:
  • Finance AI use cases that draw on traditional, generative and agentic AI techniques.
  • Setting up AI pilots and scaling initiatives.
  • Ensuring proper governance of finance AI tools.
  • Navigating the Finance AI vendor landscape.
  • Connecting AI to finance process automation and wholesale finance transformation.
  • Assessing how AI technologies and approaches are impacting the finance function.
• Stay abreast of external trends in artificial intelligence relevant to finance audiences and create innovative, thought‑provoking, highly leveraged “must‑have” insights.
• Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to clients’ needs and requests that accelerate the client’s ability to act.
• Develop in‑depth analysis to identify the root cause of a client’s barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing insights positions across a team of analysts.
• Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda.
• Research, analyse and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights.
• Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face‑to‑face interactions.
• Create and deliver high‑value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings.
• Support BTI and Sales:
  Serve as the voice of the market to help Insights teams create content and drive engagement with clients to make progress against their critical priorities to grow their business.
• Provide high quality and timely content peer review.
• Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy.
• Actively participate in innovation, ideation and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community.
• Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and BTI provide excellent service delivery.
• Be a mentor and coach by supporting more junior team members.
• Be client‑centric while…