AI Senior Specialist

We're the world's leading data, insights, and consulting company we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

Job Details

Kantar is the world's leading AI-native marketing data and analytics business and an indispensable brand partner to the world's top companies. We combine the most meaningful attitudinal and behavioural data with deep expertise and advanced analytics to uncover how people think and act. We help clients understand what has happened and why and how to shape the marketing strategies that shape their future.

Why this job is important

The AI Senior Specialist play a pivotal role in driving innovation through AI across our Finance function. By identifying high-impact opportunities and embedding an AI culture, you'll help us deliver intelligent automation at scale. Your work will directly influence how we optimise business processes and shape the future of finance at Kantar.

You will be at the forefront of transforming how we use data and technology to solve real business challenges. You'll empower teams to work smarter, not harder, by introducing AI-driven solutions such as agents that free up time for strategic thinking and creative problem-solving. Your expertise will help us stay ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape, ensuring our finance operations are not just efficient, but also resilient and future ready.

This is your chance to make a tangible impact-both on how we work internally and, on the value, we deliver to some of the world's most recognisable brands. If you're passionate about innovation, collaboration, and making a difference, this is the role for you.

What you'll be doing

• Identifying and championing high-value AI initiatives across finance processes.
• Acting as an AI advocate, driving awareness, education, and adoption of AI within finance teams.
• Translating business challenges into AI use cases and evaluating their impact.
• Bridging the gap between business and technology teams to pilot and implement AI solutions.
• Collaborating on the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML models for automation.
• Keeping up to date with the latest in AI (especially GenAI) and recommending new approaches.
• Promoting responsible AI, ensuring compliance, governance, and ethical standards are met.

The skills & experience needed as Finance AI Project Manager

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Finance with AI specialisation).
• Proven experience applying AI/ML in a business context, ideally within finance or enterprise functions.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, generative AI, and the AI product lifecycle.
• PowerAutomate and Copilot experience
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with the ML lifecycle.
• The ability to identify and assess AI opportunities for business impact.
• Excellent communication skills to engage both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• A passion for building AI knowledge and culture within teams.

What's in it for you

• Flexible hybrid working
• Up to 25 days off, life leave, plus your birthday off and two days paid for volunteering
• Meal card and flexible benefits where you are allocated funds to spend on a variety of benefits such as transport cost, education related and more

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Why join Kantar

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We're dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.