Finance Manager, Technology Business Partner - FTC

Position Summary

The Technology Finance Decision Support Team is responsible for delivering service excellence across all Technology functions with ongoing management of the business relationship across both senior Finance & Technology stakeholders. Responsibility extends to business partnering with the Leadership team and providing all financial information to support the team in meeting its objectives and drive informed business decision-making.

This is a Finance Manager role, reporting into the Technology Decision Support Finance Director to support finance strategy through robust budget and forecasts with insightful analysis for decision making. The successful candidate should have proven ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment and lead a team to provide value added insight.

The role carries strategic support and expansive project management & data modelling oversight across a multitude of Technology wide workstreams ranging from end-to-end oversight of the budgeting cycle & primary finance business partner to the divisional FP&A teams. The role would be expected to manage relationships effectively and manage the financial models and effective communication of the appropriate outputs across a wide range of stakeholders.

LSEG Technology brings together our product development, operations, digital and business technology, cyber security, architecture, and technology program management groups.

The role is open to internal applications as a secondment opportunity.

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology Budget Process. Managing the initial concepts, UAT and managing the overall end-to-end budget cycle for Technology through initial partner engagement through to final budget submission & presentation to the Tech Executive Leadership Team.

• Strategic Activities / Projects. Understanding complex budget impact Technology projects and provide analytical and financial modelling support alongside acting as the POC for budget impacting guidance.

• Business Partner. Act as the primary partner to provide financial information and context to senior stakeholders to drive informed decision and fundamentally deputise for the Finance Director as required.

• Transformation Management. Support the ongoing transformation of the FP&A function within the Technology divisions through ongoing system & process rationalisation given the continuing evolution of the merger of LSEG & Refinitiv.

• Integration of Heritage LSEG and Heritage Refinitiv. Continue the work to bring the organisations together, identifying process simplification and improvements. Work with other members of the team to understand synergies and integration reporting

Key Relationships:

• Technology Strategy Director
• Technology Finance Leadership Team
• Technology Sourcing Team
• Technology Central FP&A Team
• Group Corporate Development and M&A Team

Technical/Professional Skills & Competencies:

• Substantial amount of experience in leading change and a track record of effective communication and ability to influence stakeholders
• Proficiency in working effectively and delivering results in a fast-paced, complex, dynamic, global business environment.
• Work effectively in teams and across functions of the business
• Demonstrate strong customer-focus with a commercial mindset, communication, and analytical skills
• Strong organisational skills to manage multiple projects with competing demands for resource
• Expert level with MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint)
• Open to flexible working applicants

Experience required:

• Qualified chartered accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with extensive post qualified experience, which includes accounting and business partnering activities (budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, strategy evaluation, analysis and insight)
• Knowledge and understanding of ERPs and other financial systems
• Excellent financial modelling, planning and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a deadline-oriented environment managing multiple priorities
• Proven track record to interact with senior management
• Demonstrated ability to provide business partnering support
• Excellent use of Microsoft office packages, PowerPoint, Excel/ Power BI/Query, Word and other BI tools
• Ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues globally
• Time-zone overlap with global stakeholders and counterparts, as warranted

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose - driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth - in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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