Engineering Finance Business Partner - Cyber, CTO and COO

About LSEG

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge, and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

About this role

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Engineering Finance Business Partner to support our Cyber Security, Chief Technology Office and the Engineering COO teams. This role will be pivotal in driving financial performance and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate will possess strong financial acumen, excellent analytical skills and business partnering experience. As the key liaison between the divisions and broader finance teams – including Contr­ollership and FP&A – the Finance Business Partner will play a crucial role in ensuring smooth alignment and execution of financial objectives, particularly in activities such as budgeting, investment business cases and month-end close.

Key responsibilities:

• Support divisional engineering teams to deliver the 2024 financial plans with particular focus on robust investment cash management and analysis
• Supervise month-end processes and work closely with divisions to understand performance and influence financials

• Prepare monthly financial forecast, identifying opportunities and risk mitigation plans
• Work with the programme management community to build investment business cases, ensuring robust tracking and delivery
• Provide the People function with insights to support optimal organisational design decisions
• Collaborate with Procurement to implement strategy on high-value deals and contract renewals
• Deliver standardisation of processes and be a change agent to implement improvements
• Work collaboratively with the partners to drive insights and provide challenge on how we optimally allocate resources
• Support Change Strategy and the broader Finance community to embed insights such as TCO and Zero-Based Planning
• Support and drive balance sheet clarity and depreciation breakdown by application to improve insights across engineering spend
• Collaborate to develop metrics to drive insight and actions
• Provide ad-hoc support to the leadership and wider teams, signposting effectively to use self-service finance processes – including purchase requisitioning and accounts payable

Key skills and experience:

• 2+ years of Finance Business Partnering experience
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to model and manage large data in excel
• Presenting outputs to senior partners and influencing decision-making
• Working autonomously and critical thinking with the ability to tackle complex problems in a structured manner
• Team working collaboratively with partners at all levels 
• Preparing budgets and incorporating this into financial systems
• Supervising month-end close and forecasting
• Building business cases
• Understanding of accounts payable and other financial processes

The ideal candidate is an experienced finance business partner professional with a consistent track record of collaborating with partners, striving for excellence, standardization and pulling insights from data to support the divisions and finance. The candidate should embody the LSEG values of Change, Partnership, Integrity and Excellence.

At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organization is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise of creating essential partnerships and open opportunities. Our open culture is central to how we deliver our purpose – driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth – in everything we do.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organization of 25,000 people across 70 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse Investment. 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 based on 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 any mental health or physical disability needs.

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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.

If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.