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About the Role
Lead a global financial control function, shaping the future of finance through transformation, automation, and collaboration. This role supports a critical finance function within FTSE Russell, a business essential to global financial markets. You will combine strong governance with innovation to enable organizational scale, adaptation, and success in a complex environment. Partnering broadly, you will influence strategy, develop talent, and contribute to finance transformation initiatives for long-term value.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results, ensuring strong financial stewardship.
- Oversee balance sheet governance, including reconciliations, substantiation, and resolution of complex accounting matters.
- Maintain effective control over subscription and asset-based revenue streams, managing billing, accruals, and deferred revenue.
- Take ownership of the financial control framework, continuously enhancing controls for a growing business.
- Oversee statutory account preparation, legal entity reporting, and external audits.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and governance requirements.
- Prepare and present finance papers for legal entity boards.
- Lead financial control activities associated with systems implementations, finance transformation initiatives, and process changes.
- Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and simplify reporting and accounting processes.
- Create scalable solutions to improve efficiency, enhance controls, and support future business growth.
- Lead, coach, and develop a geographically dispersed financial control team, fostering an inclusive and high-performing environment.
- Build positive relationships across FP&A, Finance Business Partners, Group Finance, Operations, Risk, Tax, and Treasury teams.
- Partner effectively with external auditors and other key partners to achieve shared goals.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience.
- Strong foundation in technical accounting, financial reporting, and financial control.
- Experience from a complex international organization.
- Track record of leading financial control, controllership, or product control activities.
- Maintained high standards of governance, compliance, and delivery.
- Experience overseeing statutory reporting, external audits, and legal entity governance.
- Proven ability to lead global teams and deliver results through organizational change.
- Experience gained through ERP implementations, finance transformation programs, or operational improvement initiatives.
- Strong judgment.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent internal partner management skills.
- Confident building relationships across multiple functions.
- Ability to influence senior partners to achieve business objectives.
- Experience within financial services, market data, indices, benchmarks, or another regulated environment is advantageous.
- Knowledge of subscription-based or asset-based revenue models is advantageous.
- Knowledge of Oracle Fusion is advantageous.
Skills
- Technical accounting
- Financial reporting
- Financial control
- Governance
- Statutory reporting
- External audits
- Legal entity governance
- Team leadership
- Coaching
- Developing teams
- Organizational change management
- Finance transformation
- Operational improvement
- ERP implementation
- Partner management
- Influencing
- Relationship building
- Communication
- Simplifying complex financial matters
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
Education Level
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Retirement planning
- Paid volunteering days
- Wellbeing initiatives
About the Company
- 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 values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose.
- We are a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries.
- We value individuality and enable employees to bring their true selves to work.
- We are committed to sustainability across our global business.
- We partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.
- The LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.
- Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.
Equal Opportunity
- We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
- 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.