Description
This is a 6-month secondment role as a Manager in Group FP&A at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), reporting to the Senior Manager, Group FP&A.
The role involves preparing reporting, forecasts, and analysis for stakeholders across the business, including supporting reporting to ExCo and the Board.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
Monthly Reporting
- Develop a strong understanding of LSEG's businesses to support the preparation of management reporting and analysis for senior finance leaders and other stakeholders.
- Prepare analysis, materials, and key messages to support Executive and Board reporting.
- Partner with Group FP&A, Divisional and Functional Finance teams, and wider Finance teams such as Treasury and Financial Control to deliver timely and insightful reporting.
- Support the month-end and quarter-end close process, working closely with Financial Control to ensure accurate reporting and analysis.
Budgeting and forecasting
- Support the delivery of Group budgeting, forecasting, plan transfer, and stress-testing processes.
- Work closely with Divisional and Functional FP&A teams, Finance Business Partners, and Finance Systems teams to ensure planning processes are completed efficiently and to a high standard.
- Assist in the preparation of analysis and reporting for senior leadership throughout the planning cycle.
Transformation
- Support Finance transformation from a FP&A perspective, providing input and analysis to drive the intended outcomes of the program.
- Contribute to improvements in FP&A processes, reporting, and ways of working.
Key Relationships
- Group FP&A team, Divisional and functional FP&A, FinCon, Treasury, Investor Relations, Integration team, People function
Technical/Professional Skills & Proficiencies
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills, able to grasp and distil key messages to provide meaningful and valuable commentary.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial information, identify key drivers, and translate analysis into clear and meaningful insights.
- Strong collaboration and business-partnering skills, with the ability to work effectively across Finance and non-Finance teams.
- Strong MS Office skills (Excel and PowerPoint).
- Knowledge and understanding of ERPs and other financial systems.
- Degree qualified and accounting certification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA, CA etc.) and/or MBA.
- Ability to build effective working relationships and appropriately challenge assumptions and existing ways of working.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to operate effectively as part of a global team across different geographies and time zones.
- Ability to build strong working relationships with colleagues globally.
- Flexibility to provide appropriate time-zone overlap with global partners and counterparts when required.
- Proven ability to provide effective financial analysis and business-partnering support.