About the Role
As Vice President, Business Operations – Finance (Chief of Staff to the CFO), you will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and serve as a trusted advisor and operational leader across both the Finance organization and the enterprise leadership team. This role sits at the center of strategy, execution, and leadership alignment, with a dual mandate: Acting as Chief of Staff to the CFO, enabling financial performance, planning, and operational excellence, and Leading key enterprise operating mechanisms, including CEO Leadership Team (ELT) cadence, Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), and the implementation of a new enterprise operating system. You will play a critical role in ensuring Thomson Reuters’ strategic priorities are translated into clear plans, aligned execution, and measurable outcomes. This is a highly visible role that operates across the executive leadership team and is designed as a developmental opportunity for a high-potential leader with the ability to influence at scale and drive enterprise impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the CEO Leadership Team operating cadence, including agenda setting, materials, and follow-ups
- Own the design and execution of Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs) and other enterprise-wide forums
- Establish and continuously improve a consistent operating rhythm that drives accountability, visibility, and decision-making across the organization
- Ensure leadership discussions are focused, action-oriented, and aligned to enterprise priorities
- Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of Thomson Reuters’ enterprise operating system
- Translate enterprise strategy into clear priorities, metrics, and execution frameworks
- Partner across functions to ensure consistent adoption and disciplined execution
- Monitor progress against strategic priorities and escalate risks, trade-offs, and misalignment
- Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the CFO
- Manage the Finance leadership operating rhythm, including executive meetings and planning cycles
- Support earnings preparation, board materials, and investor communications
- Partner with Finance leaders to ensure alignment on priorities and performance
- Support enterprise and Finance annual and multi-year strategic planning processes
- Develop executive-ready materials for CFO, CEO, and Board decision-making
- Act as a bridge between Finance and other functions to drive alignment
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions to resolve trade-offs
- Build strong relationships with senior leaders across the organization
- Lead a limited number (1–2) of high-impact initiatives
- Drive initiatives end-to-end, ensuring delivery against objectives and timelines
- Optimize Finance processes and operating models
- Champion data-driven decision-making and automation
- Improve efficiency, transparency, and scalability within Finance
Requirements
- Experience in finance, strategy, consulting, operations, transformation, or Chief of Staff roles, with demonstrated ability to drive enterprise priorities and executive-level initiatives
- Strong understanding of financial planning, business performance management, operating rhythms, and executive decision-making processes
- Proven track record of driving strategic initiatives end-to-end, coordinating across Finance, business, and corporate functions to deliver within scope, timeline, and quality expectations
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence at all levels of the organization, especially with senior management and executives
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights, trade-offs, and recommendations
- Strong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect enterprise strategy, financial performance, and operational execution
- Self-motivated, data-driven, intellectually curious, detail-oriented, and able to balance strategic thinking with execution
- Ability to move quickly while maintaining focus on high-impact priorities
- Experience with enterprise-wide transformation, operating model, or strategy execution initiatives
- Experience working with global teams across multiple time zones
- Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills
- Ability to present effectively to senior executives and write clearly, concisely, and compellingly
- Adaptable and willing to take on new projects and assignments at short notice
- Bold enough to challenge the status quo constructively
- Strong thought leadership, influential communication skills, and the ability to guide enterprise-facing initiatives through the leadership team
- Proven project management capability in a highly matrixed, global organization
- Consistent focus on doing what is right for the business
- High energy and contagious enthusiasm
Skills
- Financial planning
- Business performance management
- Operating rhythms
- Executive decision-making
- Strategic initiatives
- Cross-functional coordination
- Relationship building
- Influence
- Analytical skills
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Business acumen
- Financial acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Execution
- Project management
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Visual communication
- Thought leadership
Location
- New York City, NY
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $201,600 USD - $374,400 USD
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Model
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Career Development and Growth
- Grow My Way programming
- Skills-first approach
- Industry Competitive Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
- Social Impact opportunities
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Pro-bono consulting projects
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance
About the Company
- Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions.
- We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media.
- Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency.
- Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
- We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments.
- At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.
- Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law.
- Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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