Manager, Group Corporate Development

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

The Group Corporate Development team at LSEG is a best in class, successful and high impact team. We are experts in Strategy and M&A execution and have helped the Group deliver a large amount of inorganic activity over the years: from industry defining transformational partnerships and acquisitions, like the acquisition of Refinitiv in 2021; to highly complex disposals like the disposal of Borsa Italiana or the disposal of Beta+; to highly strategic bolt-on acquisitions and investments like LSEG’s acquisition of Acadia in 2022 or our minority investment in Floww. These transactions have not only helped transform our Group to drive growth and deliver on our strategic priorities but have also re-shaped our industry.

The team works closely with our group executives, business leaders and key functions across our global business to understand how inorganic activity can support our strategic priorities. We are responsible for the full life cycle from M&A strategy & pipeline development to origination and then execution. We also support the business across a range of other activities.

We are looking for a manager to help lead our efforts in defining the group and divisions’ M&A strategy and to execute on key opportunities. This role is a key role in the team and you will be responsible for managing multiple M&A strategy and execution projects on a day-to-day basis and will have clear accountability for the project work of senior associates and associates on these projects. You will build relationships with partners across our business and across the globe to support successful delivery of our projects. You will also play a key role in developing our team, upskilling our resources and improving our tools and capabilities.

To be successful in this role, you should have good leadership abilities, strong experience of managing and delivering projects, an ability to build and maintain positive relationships with a variety of partners, a strong understanding of financial metrics and value drivers, creative problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills and above all, a real passion for M&A.

Join our team and play a major role in transforming our business and the wider financial markets infrastructure industry for the better!

What you'll be doing:

• Managing multiple strategy and execution projects day-to-day across our business and across the globe, including live transaction processes, development of business M&A strategy and pipelines, origination work on select opportunities and evaluation of inbounds with our business leaders
• Across all work, you’ll ensure that deliverables are clearly understood and you will actively track and manage delivery against deadlines, including supporting key governance and leadership decision points and updates
• Take ownership of the financial modelling and analysis work end to end and be accountable for work of senior associates on models and acquiring right sign off from inputting teams
• Manage key working relationships across our internal teams from Strategy, Legal, Finance, Integration, Technology and our business and product teams and also external partners including investment banking, accounting and deal advisory
• Accountable for all work of senior associates and associates on projects plus delivering day-to-day/on the job training to drive best practise
• Leadership responsibilities for senior associates and associates including supporting development of performance objectives, identify training and development needs, delivering training and sourcing external experts to educate our team members and contributing perspectives on team performance
• Responsible for ensuring maintenance of team tools and resources including transaction database, financial models and management of Teams sites

Candidate profile / key skills:

• Leadership: Strong communicator able to bring multiple teams together under a common purpose, shows good judgment, acts poised under pressure, promotes connectedness, and willing to invest in building a strong culture
• People Management: Ability to manage individual team members scaling up to a team in terms of resourcing, workload and personal development. Ability to actively support development of individual team members on the job extending to designing training plans for broader team to address skills needs
• Execution: Demonstrates the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources and activities to achieve specified outcomes within a clearly defined timeframe and standards
• Strategic and Commercial: Displays a strong commercial acumen and ability to develop perspectives on strategy, driving ability to focus on what matters for our business in evaluating M&A opportunities and in execution
• Financial: solid understanding of financial metrics, statements and modelling leading to high quality analysis and recommendations
• M&A and Investment: strong understanding of M&A and investment processes and core concepts and an ability to apply that to live projects and drive delivery
• Communication: Strong communication and writing skills that can be used to create effective messaging and updates for senior stakeholders and committees as part of our M&A process
• Structured ideation: A structured problem-solving process based on the concept of time-based Sprints that builds on a collection of ideas, Ideation utilizes brainstorming exercises along with other techniques. Ability to problem solve with our key partners to drive to most optimal decisions
• Comfort with ambiguity: Adaptable, pivot promptly when provided feedback, ability to learn quickly.

Required experience and qualifications:

• Proven experience in corporate development, deal advisory, transaction services or finance centered team.
• Track record of successful delivery of M&A projects
• Experience of people management responsibilities preferred.
• Degree or equivalent and professional qualification (CFA, CA, ACA)
• Genuine passion for M&A

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.

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