Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a FP&A Manager to drive best-in-class financial planning for LSEG's global Engineering function. This role is pivotal to supporting financial strategy and ensuring alignment with LSEG's transformation agenda and technology investment priorities. Your ability to bring an organised approach and structured cadence to effective financial planning, developing the quality of the plans, and driving timely submissions will be important.

Key Responsibilities

Budget & Long Term Forecasting

- Lead the annual Engineering budget and long-term forecast central process end-to-end, including :

• Creating an effective planning cadence, and partnering with Engineering finance on the approach to seek alignment
• Building forecast models and collating financial and non-financial inputs from Engineering teams
• Co-ordinating the consolidation of risks & opportunities on a monthly basis to support anticipating actions early and drive cost optimisation activities
• Developing scenario planning & sensitivity analysis to provide additional context to forecast submissions
• Translating the forecast to a 'Product-led' lens by driving the TCO cost allocation framework through the model to support the strategic direction of performance reporting
• Supporting and co-ordinating strategic business planning processes
• Crafting high-quality planning materials to support effective planning review meetings with senior team members
• Developing the story-telling of planning, bringing together insight and metrics from across Engineering

- Lead on bridging in-year monthly forecasting and the annual forecasting cycle for Engineering, with a quarterly planning cadence looking beyond the current year in each quarterly cycle.

- Build central knowledge in the Engineering FP&A team of the Engineering cost base by Tower, to drive and support information sharing across Finance

Decision Support & Storytelling

- Generate clear, concise insights that help leaders understand trade-offs, risks, and the implications of decisions.

- Transform the organization from reporting what changed" to anticipating "what will happen" next.

- Present insight in a way that enables accurate, forward looking, confident, early decision-making.

Automation

- Lead on automating the solution to drive the TCO framework through forecasting, using system capabilities and mentoring finance colleagues on the use of the preferred tool.

- Identify and implement AI use cases across Engineering FP&A to improve planning and forecasting, ensuring AI solutions are interpretable, explainable, and trusted by customers.

Skills & Experience

Essential

- FP&A experience, including Budgeting, Forecasting and scenario planning, ideally in technology or engineering within a global organisation.

- Excellent communication and business partnering skills.

- Strong analytical and proficiency with Oracle Fusion, Anaplan, Tableau or similar tools.

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, matrixed organization with global reach.

Desirable

- Background in a technology-led or engineering-heavy organisations.

- Ability to simplify complexity in financial concepts and provide transparency in decision-making.

- Experience with TBM, TCO modelling, and cost allocation frameworks

- Hands-on experience with AI or LLM-based solutions in planning, analytics, or decision support.

Career Stage:
Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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 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 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.

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You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, 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.

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