Director of Finance, Technology - London Stock Exchange Group

The Director of Finance, Technology drives, leads, and provides strategic advice, analytics, and cost performance insights to achieve short-and long-term objectives for the Real-time and Data Platforms divisions, within D&A Engineering. The Real-Time and Data Platform Engineering teams ensure that our customers have real-time (super low latency) access to our data (stock tickers, messages) and analytics to support their trading activities. These Engineering teams are working on an ambitious transformation to migrate Realtime infrastructure, improve applications and maturity and launch new products and features. The Director will support the business to deliver this change, at pace and in-budget. By improving how we match new demand with existing skills, plan change initiatives and support delivery, you will be able to have a real impact on the growth of LSEG.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, Finance: D&A Engineering Finance, this Director role is a key senior position within LSEG D&A Engineering Finance, requiring an experienced professional with strengths in cost and commercial financial management gained in either a finance department, business management team or COO team who can work closely with the Engineering CIOs, their leadership teams, and the various teams across Finance.

Role Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities

• Drives, runs, and implements the finance strategy as part of the CIO leadership to achieve divisional and group strategic objectives.
• Drives and owns all aspects of cost performance including Capital Expenditure, OpEx, Headcount, third party costs and other critical metrics.
• Builds positive relationships with divisional Financial Control to ensure accuracy of financials.
• Works with Group Financial Control, HR, Risk, IR, Ops and Engineering to ensure alignment of support and governance framework.
• Acts as the first point of contact for the CIOs teams and connect into other Finance teams as needed.
• Uses underlying trends, critical metrics, future business plans and external market factors to assist with the composition of short-term forecasts, budgets, and strategic business plans.
• Challenges and makes recommendations with respect to performance against budget, prior periods, budget setting and financial viability of new divisional initiatives.
• Leads finance support of major divisional projects ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
• Provide insight and analysis on cost performance, providing robust challenge and proactively identifying opportunities for growth and efficiency across the division, on a direct and fully allocated basis.
• Act as the lead for profitability and Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO) analysis, coordinating across the divisions, working with specific internal partners as required.
• Lead monthly performance updates, analysis of key value drivers, key risks/issues/opportunities, and enable effective decision-making.
• Work with leaders across the wider finance team to optimise data reporting, data analysis, data visualisation, and performance insights, and drive adoption of best practice approaches across Finance.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree (or equivalent) and/or relevant professional qualification.
• Extensive Finance Business Partnering experience - ideally partnering in a Tech/Engineering-led environment.
• Self-starter with a history of providing strategic thought leadership, partnering, and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Continuous improvement approach, with a passion for optimising processes and insight. Strengths in Python, Co-pilot, Power BI and Excel.
• Significant work experience in a fast-paced, global, matrixed organisation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build broad networks.
• Able to influence others and deliver outcomes and change through other people.

Career progression

It is a challenging job with real scope for growth and a career path at LSEG within Finance and COO - reflected with strong track record of career progression!

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 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.

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.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.

Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

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