Assistant Business Manager

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. It is headquartered in the United Kingdom and operates in 70+ countries worldwide, employing over 25,000 people. LSEG’s purpose is to drive financial stability, empower economies, and enable customers to create sustainable growth.

ROLE SUMMARY

You will sit at the heart of the D&A Engineering leadership team, supporting the CIO office and senior leaders. As the Assistant Business Manager, you will run and continuously improve the operating rhythm for D&A Engineering, ensuring leadership time is focused on the right priorities, with clear decisions and outcomes. This high-impact, high-trust role involves embedding AI‑enabled and automated ways of working into business management routines to improve efficiency, consistency, and insight. Over time you will progress into a Business Manager or Chief of Staff position, requiring an enterprise mindset, breadth, and leadership maturity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Run and continuously improve the D&A Engineering operating rhythm.
• Coordinate activity across strategy, delivery, people, finance, risk, and governance.
• Enable the D&A CIO and leadership team to execute with clarity, pace, and accountability.
• Track priorities, surface risks and dependencies, and drive follow‑through on actions.
• Embed AI, automation, and repeatable tooling to improve business management effectiveness.
• Build capability and confidence to progress toward a future Business Manager or Chief of Staff‑style role.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Run and continuously improve the D&A Engineering operating rhythm, including leadership meetings, governance forums, planning cycles, action tracking, and follow‑up.
• Coordinate the inputs, timelines, templates, submissions, agendas, materials, and follow‑through needed to keep forums and planning processes running effectively.
• Embed AI‑enabled and automated ways of working into core business management routines, reducing manual effort and improving the consistency, speed, and quality of reporting, briefing preparation, meeting outputs, action tracking, insight generation, and decision support.
• Track priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, and outcomes across D&A Engineering, ensuring progress is visible and follow‑up is clear.
• Support the preparation of concise, decision‑focused materials, including leadership briefings, business cases, board papers, presentations, updates, and planning documents.
• Work closely with the CIO office, leadership team, and key Group stakeholders to coordinate activity, gather inputs, resolve issues, and support effective delivery.
• Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards, trackers, and reporting routines to monitor effectiveness, identify trends, and support recommendations for process improvement.
• Identify opportunities to improve business management processes, governance, reporting, and ways of working, using AI, automation, tooling, and repeatable practices wherever appropriate.
• Support financial, people, risk, governance, and operational processes by coordinating inputs, preparing materials, tracking actions, and ensuring deadlines are met.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across technology and enterprise functions, using clear communication and sound judgement to support aligned outcomes.
• Operate with discretion, pace, resilience, and professionalism in a complex, fast‑moving environment.
• Build the breadth, confidence, and leadership maturity to progress toward a future Business Manager or Chief of Staff‑style role.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Experience in business management, COO, or Chief of Staff‑style roles.
• Strong judgement, critical thinking, and executive‑level communication skills.
• Proven ability to run operating rhythms in complex, global organisations.
• Practical experience using AI, automation, reporting, workflow, or productivity tools to improve operational efficiency and insight.
• Credibility working with senior technology and enterprise leaders.
• High resilience, discretion, and professionalism.

EEO STATEMENT

We are a proud 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.