Group Head of Finance, Operations & Corporate Functions

1 Month ago • All levels • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

The Group Head of Finance, Operations & Corporate Functions role at LSEG requires a strategic finance leader to partner with the Operations division and Corporate Functions. The role involves leading a team of finance professionals and collaborating with business leaders to shape long-term strategies. Key responsibilities include strategic decision-making, performance analysis, forecasting, and financial planning. The ideal candidate will have experience in financial business partnering, managing significant scale and complexity, and relevant industry knowledge, as well as strong leadership and communication skills. The role involves driving financial performance and profitability, ensuring financial aspects of the strategic plan are executed effectively and preparing monthly reports. This position interacts with the Executive Committee and the Board.
Must have:
  • Financial business partnering experience
  • Experience as a financial leader
  • Experience in data and technology transformation
  • Significant financial management experience
  • Strong expertise in data analysis and forecasting
Perks:
  • Healthcare
  • Retirement planning
  • Paid volunteering days
  • Wellbeing initiatives

Job Details

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) has an opportunity for a strategic finance leader to join the team to partner with the Operations division and Corporate Functions.

The role will have financial responsibility for Operations division and Corporate Functions, leading a team of talented finance professionals to partner with business leaders. This is a significant financial leadership role which requires a talented and experienced finance business partner who can work closely with the business leadership to shape their longer-term strategy.

You will have a key role on both the Operations and Finance Leadership team, interact with the Executive Committee and will be comfortable influencing and presenting at the highest levels, making sound and well-thought-out business recommendations. You will have financially led a business of commensurate scale and complexity, ideally within a relevant sector including market infrastructure, banking or broader financial services.

You will demonstrate strong intellect and curiosity, combined with maturity, wisdom, and the ability to influence effectively across a large matrixed organisation. You must be able to build strong business partnerships and interpersonal relationships with the confidence to challenge decisions and ways of thinking. You will be an effective collaborator and be comfortable making business recommendations to the Executive Committee and the Board.

Key Responsibilities

  • Act as an integral part of the Operations and Finance Leadership team, assisting with any strategic decision making that requires financial input
  • Maintain a detailed knowledge and understanding of business drivers and bring a comprehensive understanding of how this fits into Group strategy
  • Challenge and make recommendations with respect to performance against budget, budget setting and financial viability of new initiatives
  • Use underlying trends, future business plans and external market factors to assist with the composition of short-term forecasts (current financial year), budgets (next financial year) and 3-year plans
  • Maintain and develop strong working relationships within Finance and across the division
  • Lead the development and implementation of scorecards and metrics to help drive performance, and assess and measure key strategies
  • As part of the divisional leadership team, participate in pivotal initiatives and special projects. Develop metrics and analysis to build a disciplined approach to measuring return on investment and free cash flow performance
  • Provide Finance support for major projects, ensuring they are delivered on time and budget in line with accounting controls
  • Work with the Operations leadership team to create new value, using commercial acumen, strategy and resource allocation
  • Ensure execution of the financial aspects of the divisional strategic plan, defining business objectives, driving performance and profitability and reporting requirements
  • Provide valuable analysis & commentary of the divisional results
  • Prepare monthly performance reports for leadership ensuring key risks, issues and opportunities are highlighted, with a focus on key value drivers
  • Provide meaningful scenario and sensitivity analysis to facilitate decision-making
  • Ensure the practices of the team are underpinned by efficient and relevant processes and systems
  • Liaise with Group Head of FP&A and Group Head of Investor Relations in respect of quarterly, half-year and full-year external announcements
  • Manage and optimise the Performance Reporting review process to ensure that it is efficient and effective, by identifying standard methodology and information-sharing

Key Experience:

  • Financial Business Partnering Experience: A successful track record of working in partnership with a senior business leader to drive performance, including both growth and profit improvement initiatives.
  • Scale and Complexity: Experience as a financial leader of a P/L and business unit of significant scale and complexity with international operations. Demonstrated track record of driving change, continuous improvement and complex problem solving at scale and pace.
  • Industry Relevance: Experience in environments with significant data and technology transformation agendas.
  • Financial Management: Significant experience and knowledge of all aspects of financial management including strong process, accounting and control experience
  • Financial Planning & Analysis Skills: Strong expertise in data analysis, forecasting, and planning. The ability to use this expertise to drive business understanding and performance
  • Risk Management: Able to identify and mitigate risks; experience of implementing and adhering to governance, risk, control and compliance processes
  • Experience in a Matrixed Environment: Comfortable working in a global, matrixed business
  • Leadership: Demonstrable experience leading global teams comprised of multiple financial disciplines and in delivering through broad cross-functional teams

Key Skills & Leadership Competencies:

  • Engages and Inspires: Creates a climate in which people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
  • Balances Stakeholders: Comfortable managing a broad range of stakeholders, including multiple C-suite executives
  • Global Perspective: Takes a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens
  • Influences and Persuades: Uses compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others. Comfortable sharing difficult messages when required.
  • Aligns Execution: Able to build and lead a team that can deliver high-quality execution and continuous improvement in line with organisational goals
  • Strategic Vision: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies

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. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

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. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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

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.

Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.

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LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) isa leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shapes how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.

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