Finance Analyst II

Job Description

As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you: Are you FIS?

About The Team:

As an Analyst within Americas Deal Hub, you will partner with FIS’ Capital Markets and Banking divisions providing deal support to Sales and Commercial Pricing teams with deal analysis, revenue recognition and policy guidance, and working with legal teams through contract negotiations to ensure pricing, margins, and financial viability of commercial activities are achieved and reflected in contracts. You will also assist the Head of Deal Hub, Americas with high visibility projects like targeted revenue acceleration initiatives and preparing materials for executive presentations and process design and improvements.

About The Role:  

This role forms part of the Commercial Finance team, covering the whole of FIS. Commercial Finance supports the Commercial organization with clear guidance on deal structuring, revenue recognition considerations to maximize revenue, cash flow and protection of recurring revenue through proactive deal oversight. Together with Sales Finance we also provide insights and deal intelligence into the forecasting process to better forecast sales to revenue conversion. We collaborate with product Finance and Accounting to ensure accuracy of forecasts and accounting records. You will also be key to analyzing current processes, suggest and design process and tool improvements or changes, leveraging automation and AI-driven solutions to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness of Commercial Finance. You will be assisting in the preparation of materials for presentations to senior executives.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Act as a finance partner through commercial aspects of client engagements to ensure deals are structured in a financially viable and repeatable manner on pricing, margins, deal structure and revenue recognition treatment for multi-faceted software license and services contracts
• Work closely with the commercial teams, lines of business, regional sales teams, Segment and Line of Business finance leads, legal department, and Revenue Assurance to achieve optimal outcomes for FIS
• Ensure the appropriate revenue recognition for all revenue arrangements under US GAAP and company policy, escalate revenue recognition issues accordingly to Head of Regional Deal Hub and Corporate Revenue Assurance
• Proactively seek out and profile non-standard deals in the pipeline, coordinate reviews with stakeholders in the Groups and drive value through pricing and contract structuring
• Highlight complex, material bids that require Deal Review Committee approval and coordinate preparation of material with sales to ensure deal review meetings are well planned and effective
• Liaise with Corporate Finance, internal and external auditors during quarterly reviews and annual audit, as required
• Analyze existing processes, suggest and design process and tool improvements or changes, leveraging automation and AI-driven tools and solutions to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness of the Commercial Finance function
• Plan and develop an innovation strategy that can act as our guiding principles for modernization of our function, including the use of technology such as automation, AI, team training.
• Assist with the preparation of executive-level presentations, helping to ensure high quality messaging and driving outcome

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree is required, Finance/ Accounting highly preferred
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Solid technical accounting skills with specific knowledge and application of current and future state revenue recognition guidance (ASC606)
• A coordinator of process and a trusted advisor experienced at solving problems with clear, constructive advice
• A clear thinker able to make decisions within intense time pressured scenarios
• Ability to network within a complicated, matrix organizational environment to promote the benefit and success of the Deal Hub and display superior collaboration skills
• Proficiency in reporting, automation and AI-driven tools such as Power BI, Power Automate, Copilot Studio etc.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite, particularly PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience partnering with a wide range of functions and stakeholders around commercial deal activity

Added Bonus If You Have:

• Experience within a similarly focused product and services organization, operating at a global enterprise level
• Interest in emerging innovation trends such as AI and technology to help build tools for the future of the function

What We Offer You:

At FIS, you can learn, grow and make an impact in your career. Our benefits include:

• Flexible and creative work environment
• Diverse and collaborative atmosphere
• Professional and personal development resources
• Opportunities to volunteer and support charities
• Competitive salary and benefits

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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.

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