An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence!
Overview
This role supports the Strategic Finance and Business Planning function by leading financial analysis, business case development, investment evaluation, and executive decision support for key strategic initiatives. The position partners cross-functionally with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Shared Services, FP&A, Accounting, and senior leadership to evaluate growth opportunities, assess investment returns, support M&A and corporate development activity, and monitor performance against approved business cases.
Responsibilities
This role will support the Strategic Finance and Business Planning function by leading financial analysis, investment evaluation, business case development, and executive decision support for key strategic initiatives across the business. The position will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Shared Services, FP&A, Accounting, and senior leadership to evaluate growth opportunities, support investment decisions, and track performance against approved business cases.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Investment & Business Case Development
Lead the development of financial business cases to support investment decisions for new products, platform enhancements, RFI/RFP responses, and strategic initiatives across the Communications, Payments, and Financial Markets business units.
Build comprehensive financial models to assess revenue potential, cost structure, cash requirements, ROI/NPV, payback period, and long-term profitability.
Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses for key strategic initiatives to support informed decision making.
Cross-Functional Strategic Partnership
Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Operations, and Shared Services to develop assumptions and inputs required for investment analyses.
Facilitate cross-functional alignment on go-to-market strategies, commercialization approach, and resource requirements.
Serve as a strategic finance advisor to operational leaders on investment prioritization and resource allocation.
Strategic Analysis & Executive Decision Support
Analyze large internal and external data sets to identify market opportunities, operational efficiencies, and growth drivers.
Translate financial analysis into clear strategic insights and recommendations for senior leadership.
Prepare executive-level presentations and materials to support strategic decision making.
Conduct ad hoc financial and strategic analysis to support executive leadership and corporate planning initiatives.
Support the preparation of Board-level strategic materials.
M&A and Corporate Development Support
Support buy-side acquisition analysis, including valuation modeling, synergy assessment, and financial diligence.
Assist with sell-side divestiture analysis and preparation of financial materials for potential transactions.
Build and maintain transaction financial models and scenario analyses.
Investment Governance & Performance Tracking
Partner with FP&A and Accounting to track actual investment spend against approved investment cases.
Monitor performance against expected financial returns, investment milestones, and approved business case assumptions.
Maintain a centralized dashboard of approved investments and pipeline opportunities to support prioritization and capital allocation decisions.
Qualifications
If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!
TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
Transaction Network Services (TNS) has been delivering industry-leading solutions for the payments, financial and telecommunications industries since 1990. TNS is the preferred supplier of networking, integrated data and voice services to many leading organizations in the global payments and financial communities, as well as a provider of extensive telecommunications network solutions to service providers.
TNS is a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: TNS) listed company with a healthy balance sheet, secure assets and a loyal customer base that includes some of the largest global blue-chip companies in the world. Many of the world’s leading companies continue to count on TNS as their primary provider of a range of networking and communication services, enabling them to expand regionally, nationally and globally. TNS provides services to customers in over 60 countries throughout the world.