Director of Finance, Technology

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.

• The Director is expected to take full ownership, which will require the successful candidate to build strong relationships with the Leadership team for their specific areas, be creative, have the ability to think on their feet and engage with their key internal partners.
• 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.

• 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. Loves to ‘get stuck in’.
• 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.

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.

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