Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Business Partner, Enterprise Technology Product Development in London

About S&P Global

S&P Global is a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide. We are committed to delivering essential intelligence that powers the markets of the future.

About Enterprise Technology Finance

The Enterprise Technology Finance team is a high-performing group of finance professionals dedicated to supporting S&P Global’s technology transformation and operational excellence. This team partners closely with the S&P Global CTO, Head of Global Infrastructure, Divisional CTOs and CFOs, senior product and engineering leaders, and S&P Global corporate finance.

The Impact & What You'll Do

This leadership role will help shape the financial future of S&P Global’s technology product development across key divisions. As a strategic financial leader, you will influence investment priorities, capital allocation, and major technology product decisions. You will partner with the VP, Divisional Product Technology Finance, senior technology leaders, finance and people teams across divisions including S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Dow Jones Indices, and S&P Global Energy to improve financial outcomes and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Financial Partnership & Decision Support: Serve as the lead finance partner and trusted advisor to senior technology product development leaders, providing strategic insight, financial guidance, and decision support for investment priorities, budgets, forecasts, and resource allocation.
• Partner across division technology, finance and corporate teams to align capital allocation with enterprise strategy, business performance, and capital priorities.
• Lead financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for division technology organizations supported by models, metrics, dashboards, and analytics that improve forecast accuracy and investment discipline.
• Support the development and evaluation of business cases for major technology initiatives, ensuring clear articulation of ROI, business value, and financial impact.
• Deliver executive-ready reporting, variance analysis, forward-looking projections, and actionable insights on technology investments, performance, risks, and outlook for product, finance and technology leadership.
• Drive capital management, productivity initiatives, benchmarking, M&A support, and high-priority FP&A projects that strengthen enterprise technology investment decisions.
• Leverage AI and advanced automation to modernize and continuously improve FP&A processes, enhancing forecasting accuracy, scenario planning, and management reporting while strengthening data governance and decision support.
• Lead, manage, and continuously develop a high-performing team of financial analysts by fostering accountability, collaboration, and analytical rigor; identifying training plans and career paths to upskill AI capabilities; and ensuring a comprehensive enterprise-wide view of technology spend that balances divisional needs with company priorities.

Enterprise Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Direct enterprise forecasting, reporting, and planning activities specifically for technology product development, evaluating financial performance and monitoring progress towards strategic goals.
• Collaborate on medium to long-term annual budgeting and estimate reporting for Enterprise FP&A, with a focus on technology spend for product innovation.
• Develop and implement sophisticated financial models and forecasts that support enterprise technology product initiatives, as well as potential acquisitions, divestitures, and partnerships, ensuring alignment with procurement and vendor management goals.
• Improve forecast accuracy through pipeline analytics and leading indicator analysis for technology investments.
• Design and track key performance metrics for technology product development investments.

Basic Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience, with a minimum of 6+ years in FP&A with a significant focus on technology sectors, particularly product development.
• Proven track record of working with senior technology, finance and divisional leadership across multiple business units (e.g., Corporate, Ratings, Indices, MI, Energy), demonstrating strong executive presence and the ability to influence senior leadership.
• Extensive experience, from both a finance and technology perspective, with the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), technology workforce planning, and software and application rationalization.
• Proven track record of partnering effectively with procurement teams to achieve significant cost savings and optimize financial performance.
• Experience managing financial operations in a large, matrixed technology organization.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI platforms (e.g. Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini Enterprise, Kensho Spark Assist, etc.) to build and deploy agentic solutions.
• Experience leading and mentoring a team of financial professionals.
• Experience with Board-level reporting and in a senior position in a global company with multi-country responsibility, showcasing cross-cultural effectiveness.
• Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding goals and metrics.
• Experience leading through change, including mergers and acquisitions and related integration processes.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leveraging PPM and PBA tools to improve visibility into investments and capital allocation.
• Experience establishing cost allocation frameworks and processes that provide visibility into application, platform and product total cost of ownership.
• An MBA and/or CPA/Chartered Accountant is strongly preferred.

Key Competencies:

• Thinks strategically, uses strong business judgment, and balances enterprise and divisional needs.
• Uses data and analysis to organize information and support clear decisions.
• Communicates well and builds alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Creates clear, executive-ready messages and compelling business narratives.
• Influences without authority and navigates complex global organizations effectively.
• Leverages AI and technology to continuously improve processes and outcomes.
• Manages multiple priorities with urgency and focus.
• Understands business drivers and makes outcome-focused decisions, even with limited information.
• Leads change with clear direction, communication, and accountability.

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Accurate, predictable forecasts for technology product development spend and investments.
• Improved productivity and resource allocation across division product development teams.
• Stronger ROI-based decisions for technology product initiatives.
• Clear alignment between product development strategy and the financial plan.
• Better visibility into pipeline health and leading indicators.
• Increased operational effectiveness by leveraging AI and agentic capabilities.

Return to Work: Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits: We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in-class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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