Director of Finance, Engineering

London Stock Exchange Group; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in London seeks a Director of Strategic Programmes. This role involves leading finance initiatives crucial for upgrading infrastructure, managing a team, and collaborating across various business units. The ideal candidate has experience in finance partnership, cloud migrations, and excel in problem-solving. The position offers tailored benefits including healthcare and wellbeing initiatives, contributing to sustainable growth in the financial ecosystem.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience partnering with senior leaders in planning and budgeting.
• Ability to break down complex issues into understandable solutions.
• Strong attention to detail and proficiency in Excel or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of finance managers across various initiatives.
• Collaborate with diverse teams including software and infrastructure.
• Drive efficient cloud migration processes.

Skills

Finance partnering

Complex problem-solving

Detail oriented

Structured approach

Cloud migration experience

Tools

Excel

Python

PowerBI

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a director of strategic programmes to join our Engineering finance team. Across Engineering, we have launched a number of transformational initiatives. We are going to upgrade our global real-time infrastructure. This super-low latency infrastructure supports our clients, and enables us to deliver instant data to support traders around the world. We are migrating hundreds of applications into the Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Challenges and role

We have a couple of big challenges ahead. We need to better understand what applications will ultimately move to the cloud, and what we need to keep on our own servers in dedicated datacentres. We need to understand how to commercially optimise this equation - and not just for Engineering, but end-to-end for the firm. And we need to become more efficient. In our migrations. In our delivery. And in how we deliver support.

Responsibilities

The director will lead a team of two experienced finance managers and work directly with a large number of people across the firm. The programme managers of these initiatives, the software development teams, the infrastructure delivery teams and of course other finance teams.

• Finance partnering - You have partnered senior leaders in the business before on planning, forecasting and delivery to target on annual budgets of £200m+
• Complexity - You are able to break down complex problems to make them sound simple, even if they\'re a bit fuzzy
• Detail oriented - You\'re in the detail, you love a good Excel (or Python, PowerBI, or your tool of choice).
• Structured - You bring structure and help your business to stay on top
• Engineering & Cloud - You already have experience with cloud migrations, or are interested to learn a lot in a short period of time

About LSEG

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.

Culture and Values

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 at LSEG

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.

Benefits

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

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