Senior AI Business Analyst - Finance & Data Strategy

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC.</p> <div id="fortidlp-input-element-parent"></div></div><h1><strong>The Role</strong></h1> <p>The Senior Finance AI Business Analyst plays a critical role within Banyan's finance organization, partnering across Tax, Controllership, Treasury, FP&amp;A, and Opco business partnering. You will operate inside the finance team, understanding and reimagining its workflows, and executing the high-value AI and data science initiatives that make finance faster, sharper, and smarter.</p> <p>You will join a team responsible for the financial backbone of more than 100 portfolio companies, sitting on a vast quantity of high-quality financial data waiting to be leveraged. Think of yourself as a translator and a builder, fluent in what modern AI and data science can do and trusted by finance leaders and technical teams alike to bridge finance mechanics and technical capability. Partnering with our central AI &amp; Data Science team, you will bring real AI capability to finance's biggest opportunities, spanning close and reporting, forecasting, cash and treasury management, tax compliance, and opco financial partnering, and help build the data foundation that powers it.</p> <p>This role is scoped broadly on purpose: you will be the first dedicated AI business partner embedded across all of finance, with the opportunity to shape how the role grows, including building and leading a team as adoption scales across Tax, Controllership, Treasury, FP&amp;A, and Opco business partnering.</p> <p>This is a hybrid role that blends three jobs, all applied inside our finance organization:</p> <ul> <li><strong>AI strategist: </strong>identify, prioritize, and build business cases for AI and data science that drive finance KPIs across every discipline you support.</li> <li><strong>Data science translator: </strong>bridge finance stakeholders, from Controllership to Treasury to FP&amp;A, and technical AI and data resources. Scope models and tools, then interpret outputs in clear, decision-useful terms.</li> <li><strong>Builder and operator: </strong>prototype and ship working AI tools directly, help each finance team adopt them in their workflows, and measure real impact. Lean on the central AI &amp; Data Science team for engineering support as complexity scales.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>Quick Facts</strong></h1> <table width="647"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="147"> <p><strong>Team</strong></p> </td> <td width="500"> <p>Finance, embedded as business partner across Tax, Controllership, Treasury, FP&amp;A, and Opco business partnering</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="147"> <p><strong>Reports to</strong></p> </td> <td width="500"> <p>VP, FP&amp;A; dotted line to the Lead AI Architect</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="147"> <p><strong>Location</strong></p> </td> <td width="500"> <p>Toronto, Ontario. Hybrid: typically 3 days per week in our Toronto office</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="147"> <p><strong>Type</strong></p> </td> <td width="500"> <p>Full-time</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="147"> <p><strong>Level</strong></p> </td> <td width="500"> <p>Senior</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="147"> <p><strong>Compensation</strong></p> </td> <td width="500"> <p>Competitive base of CAD $130,000 to $170,000 plus performance bonus and benefits. Final offer reflects experience and qualifications.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h1><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h1> <ul> <li>Embed yourself as a trusted partner across finance, including Tax, Controllership, Treasury, FP&amp;A, and Opco business partnering. Learn the data, systems, KPIs, and pain points of each discipline well enough that the teams lean on you as their AI partner.</li> <li>Identify and prioritize AI and data science opportunities that move finance's metrics, sequenced by impact, effort, and risk across every discipline you support.</li> <li>Build the ROI case for each opportunity you pursue. Define what success looks like, the sensitivities, and what would make the work fail.</li> <li>Translate in both directions: turn finance problems, from close automation to cash forecasting to tax workpaper prep, into well-scoped requirements for our AI and data science engineers, and turn model and tool outputs back into decisions the finance team can act on.</li> <li>Partner with finance leadership on roadmap and prioritization. Help them say yes to the right work and no to the rest.</li> <li>Drive adoption. Train finance teams, design workflows around what you build, and measure usage and real impact after launch.</li> <li>Set the patterns. Define and track KPIs for everything you ship, from model performance and adoption to time saved, decision quality, and dollar impact. Share what works across the AI &amp; Data Science group.</li> <li>Help shape how this role grows. As adoption scales, help define the roadmap for expanding AI support across Tax, Controllership, Treasury, FP&amp;A, and Opco business partnering, including building and leading a team.</li> </ul> <h1><strong>What This Looks Like Across Finance</strong></h1> <p>Your day-to-day will span all five disciplines. A few illustrative examples:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Tax: </strong>automate tax provision workpapers, accelerate data gathering for compliance filings, and build tools to flag exposu