Director, Performance Management in London

The Director, Performance Management is a senior engineering leader responsible for setting the strategy, architecture, delivery, and operational excellence of the enterprise‐wide Oracle EPM platform. You will drive the design and implementation of modern performance management capabilities—including planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, and analytics—supporting the organisation's financial and strategic decision‐making.

You will lead a cross‐functional engineering organisation covering product ownership, solution architecture, development, DevOps, and platform operations. The ideal candidate combines strong technical mastery of Oracle EPM Cloud (FCC, EPBC, PCMC, ARC) with proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering scalable enterprise financial systems.

What You'll Be Doing

• Strategic Leadership & Vision
  • Define the multi‐year technology strategy for the Oracle EPM platform, aligned to Finance, Technology, and enterprise objectives.
  • Serve as the senior technology authority for all EPM capabilities—planning, consolidation, allocations, close automation, reporting, and data integration.
  • Partner with senior Finance stakeholders (CFO, Controllers, FP&A, Data Office) to shape future‐state performance management processes.
• Engineering & Platform Ownership
  • Lead engineering delivery across the full product lifecycle: roadmap, design, build, test, deploy, and operate.
  • Own architectural integrity, ensuring resilient, scalable, secure platform design across all Oracle EPM modules.
  • Drive standardisation, automation, test frameworks, and CI/CD approaches suitable for EPM development.
• Team Leadership & Organisation Management
  • Direct and grow a multi‐disciplinary engineering team including solution architects, developers, product managers, analysts, and platform engineers.
  • Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, documentation discipline, and continuous improvement.
  • Manage third‐party vendors, SI partners, and offshore/nearshore engineering delivery teams.
• Operational Excellence
  • Oversee day‐to‐day platform operations, SLAs, incident management, and release cycles.
  • Ensure robust governance, change management, controls, and audit readiness—aligned to Finance, Risk, and Engineering standards.
  • Drive improvements in platform performance, uptime, data quality, metadata governance, and operational automation.
• Delivery & Stakeholder Management
  • Deliver high‐impact Oracle EPM programmes—new modules, upgrades, integrations, regulatory changes, and process optimisation.
  • Partner closely with enterprise data teams on data pipelines, integration frameworks, metadata management, and reporting architectures.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership, providing technical insight on performance management innovation.

What You'll Bring

• Technical Expertise
  • Deep hands‐on experience with Oracle EPM Cloud (EPBC/FP&A, FCC, PCM, ARC, EDMC, Narrative Reporting).
  • Strong understanding of multidimensional modelling, metadata management, calculation engines, EPM automation frameworks, and integrations (REST APIs, Data Integration, ODI, FDMEE).
  • Knowledge of financial processes: budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, close cycle, financial reporting, allocations.
  • Strong grasp of data engineering fundamentals, governance, and cloud‐platform integration patterns.
• Leadership & Delivery
  • 10+ years delivering enterprise‐scale Finance/EPM platforms, including at least 5 years in senior engineering leadership roles.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead large engineering teams, vendor partners, and hybrid delivery models.
  • Track record of delivering complex technology programmes in a regulated or large multinational environment.
• Business & Collaboration Skills
  • Strong partnership skills with Finance leaders (CFO, FP&A, Controllers).
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts to business stakeholders.
  • Strategic thinker with capability to articulate and execute a multi‐year roadmap.

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle EPM certifications.
• Experience in Agile/Scaled Agile (SAFe) environments.
• Familiarity with modern cloud data platforms (Azure, Snowflake, Databricks) and BI/reporting tools (Power BI, Oracle Analytics).
• Experience improving Finance transformation—close automation, predictive insights, driver‐based planning.

What Success Looks Like

• A stable, high‐performing EPM platform used confidently by Finance and business stakeholders.
• Measurable improvements in speed, automation, transparency, and quality of financial planning and reporting cycles.
• High‐performing engineering teams delivering predictable, high‐quality outputs.
• A clear roadmap toward a modern, cloud‐native, data‐driven performance management ecosystem.

Benefits

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

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.