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About the team and role

Americas Finance Team

As part of a highly collaborative global organization, the Americas Finance team plays a critical role in enabling GBG's broader financial strategy and execution. The team functions as a strategic extension of the global finance organization, delivering insight, rigor, and partnership to support revenue growth and operational decisionmaking across the region.

This role will report directly to the VP of Finance, Americas, and will partner closely with the Finance Systems & Reporting Manager, Revenue Operations, and Account Management teams. The position serves as a key connector between finance and the commercial organization, translating data into actionable insights, strengthening forecasting accuracy, and driving informed business outcomes.

With strong crossfunctional exposure and visibility, this role offers the opportunity to influence both regional and global priorities while helping shape how finance supports GBG's gotomarket strategy in the Americas.

The Role - Finance Director

As part of GBG's global Finance organization, the Finance Director, Americas will serve as a strategic business partner to the regional leadership team, providing highimpact financial forecasting, analysis, and insight across the Americas Identity and Location businesses. This role plays a critical part in connecting financial performance to commercial execution and regional growth priorities.

The primary objective of the role is to help the business understand its key revenue and performance drivers, strengthen forecasting accuracy, and influence positive change through proactive financial leadership. This is a highly visible role that requires strong commercial acumen, executivelevel communication skills, and the ability to partner effectively with both finance and nonfinance stakeholders.

What you will do

• Leading the monthly and rolling forecasting processes with current customers, utilizing the various planning tools as well as support the VP Finance with long-term business planning and budgeting for the region.
• Work closely with our account manager team to make sure all variables impacting run-rate are reviewed and reflected in the forecast on a timely basis. 
• Work with the revenue operations team to interpret the revenue impact of the opportunity forecasts.
• Variance analysis across the P&L.
• Responsible for entering and updating the full P&L forecast into Workday Adaptive - working with VP Finance
• Lead on the production and delivery of in-depth financial analysis of business and financial trends to drive performance led discussions with business stakeholders.
• Analyze current product mix by customer and assessing profitability.
• Gain deep understanding of the identity verification and fraud prevention market in our region, helping to identify underlying financial trends and support the business in crafting solutions to address customer needs.
• Create and maintaining complex business cases and financial models.
• Offer transparent strategic insight through analysis.
• Influence at a senior level on strategic direction and driving profitability.
• Work in unison with our Finance Systems and Reporting Manager to constantly look at ways to enhance business intelligence, reporting, forecasting, and planning.

Requirements

Skills we are looking for

• Minimum of 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting and/or finance, with exposure to both public and private environments
• Solid working knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS, with the ability to interpret and apply standards in a business context
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and quantitative skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
• Demonstrated attention to detail while maintaining perspective on broader business objectives
• Proven problemsolving capabilities, with the capacity to manage competing priorities and deadlines effectively
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage and influence nonfinance stakeholders
• Proficiency in Business Intelligence tools such as Power BI and/or Tableau
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including financial analysis and reporting
• Ability to successfully manage multiple initiatives simultaneously in a fastpaced, matrixed environment
• Highly organized
• CPA designation preferred but not required

Benefits

To find out more

As an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.

To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we're a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we'll be in touch. You can also find out more about careers at GBG and check out our current opportunities at gbgplc.com/careers.