Senior Integration Associate

London Stock Exchange; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

London Stock Exchange Group seeks a Senior Associate, Integration to help deliver the firm’s inorganic growth strategy by coordinating integration programmes across businesses and functions. You will work with experienced colleagues and leaders through planning, execution and value realisation, build alignment, monitor progress, and contribute to playbooks and governance to ensure synergies are captured.

Experience with M&A integrations in IMO is preferred; strong programme management,

Qualifications

• Strong programme management skills, including planning, coordination, risk management and delivery tracking.
• Experience supporting M&A integrations within an Integration Management Office (IMO), ideally within financial services, technology or a similarly complex industry.
• A commercial attitude, a collaborative approach and a genuine curiosity about M&A, integration and value creation.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, alongside familiarity with project management tools.
• Experience building relationships and working effectively with partners at different levels across an organisation.
• The ability to analyse complex information, identify meaningful insights and communicate recommendations clearly.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activities across multiple workstreams and business functions to ensure alignment on priorities, actions and decisions.
• Monitor progress against integration milestones, dependencies and governance requirements; provide status updates to senior leadership.
• Support development of integration playbooks, tools and methodologies to improve delivery and value capture.
• Assist with carve-outs, separation activities and transition service agreement management where required.
• Support broader Corporate Development activities, including evaluating potential acquisitions and strategic investments.

Skills

Programme management

M&A integration

Stakeholder mgmt

Excel

PowerPoint

Project tools

Data analysis

Communication

Tools

MS Project

Job description

• Join our Group Corporate Development and Integration Management team and play a key role in helping us deliver LSEG’s inorganic growth strategy
• As a Senior Associate, Integration, you’ll work alongside experienced colleagues, business leaders and teams across LSEG to help integrate acquired businesses and realise the value they bring
• We’re looking for someone who is excited by the challenge of bringing organisations together
• From the earliest stages of planning through to execution and value realisation, you’ll help coordinate activities, build alignment across teams and support the delivery of integration priorities
• You’ll gain exposure to complex, high-profile transactions while developing a broad understanding of how our businesses operate
• As a team, we are passionate about creating value through successful integrations
• We work closely with partners across Finance, Technology, Operations, Legal, People and Commercial teams to ensure integrations are delivered effectively, risks are managed and opportunities are captured
• You’ll also help us continuously improve how we approach integration through the development of tools, playbooks and best practices
• In addition to integration work, you’ll have opportunities to contribute to broader Corporate Development activities, including assessing potential acquisition opportunities, supporting transaction evaluation and helping us understand how strategic investments can create long-term value
• Working as part of our Integration Management Office, you’ll help develop integration strategies, target operating models and implementation plans that support successful business combinations
• You’ll monitor progress against key achievements, track dependencies and support governance activities, ensuring leaders have clear visibility of delivery status, priorities and decisions
• We work to ensure every transaction delivers meaningful value for LSEG. In this role, you’ll help identify, validate and monitor synergy opportunities, track performance against business case assumptions and develop reporting that helps partners understand progress and outcomes
• You’ll coordinate activities across multiple business functions, helping teams stay aligned on priorities, actions, risks and decisions
• You’ll produce updates and presentations for senior partners while also contributing to the ongoing development of our integration playbooks, tools and methodologies
• Successful integrations rely on positive relationships and effective communication
• You’ll build connections with business leaders, functional teams and acquired business partners while supporting workshops, working sessions and change initiatives that help teams navigate integration successfully
• Where required, you’ll also support carve-outs, separation activities and transition service agreement management, helping ensure business separation programmes are delivered smoothly and efficiently
• We’re interested in people who enjoy solving complex problems, bringing structure to ambiguity and working collaboratively across teams
• You’ll bring experience supporting M&A integration programmes and be comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment

Strong programme management skills, including planning, coordination, risk management and delivery trackingExperience supporting M&A integrations within an Integration Management Office (IMO), ideally within financial services, technology or a similarly complex industryA commercial attitude, a collaborative approach and a genuine curiosity about M&A, integration and value creationStrong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, alongside familiarity with project management toolsExperience building relationships and working effectively with partners at different levels across an organisationThe ability to analyse complex information, identify meaningful insights and communicate recommendations clearly