Assistant Manager, Financial Reporting and Analysis

ROLE SUMMARY:

Interested in financial markets? If you enjoy modelling, building budgets and forecasts, management reporting and analysing results, this could be your next role! Reporting to the Director, Divisional Financial Controller, you will look after all aspects of reporting and analytics for LSEG's prestigious capital markets entities including the London Stock Exchange PLC and the Turquoise Group. The reports which you will look after will be used to support submissions to boards of directors, regulators and external LSEG shareholders. The ability to work accurately and deliver to agreed timelines is important.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Production of legal entity management reporting packs on a monthly and quarterly basis including P&L, balance sheet, cashflow statements, charts, commentary, and insight.
• Budget preparation including:
  • Review and challenge budget files loaded by other teams.
  • Investigate and understand year-on-year variances versus prior year.
  • Create and control budget load files.
  • Drive completion of the budget to the agree timeline.
  • Support the production of management budget report packs including commentary and commercial insights.
• Work closely with the Entity Accountants, Business Partners and other teams to support the month end accounting process.
• Carefully review the ledger, income statements and balance sheets during the month end cycle.
• Investigate large or unexpected variances to budget, forecast and expectations.
• Develop a deep understanding of the drivers behind monthly costs and revenue.
• Partner the financial control team, challenge, and drive resolution of incorrect ledger entries.
• Support the Financial Control team with the external audit and respond swiftly to queries.
• Ensure that workbooks and models are neat, thoroughly understood, contain control totals and are structured in a logical way.
• Automate workbooks by linking formulas to the cover sheet and / or embedded data sheets and using formulas to automate as far as feasible. Avoiding hard coded values where possible.
• Improve control over workbooks and reports. Find faster, more efficient methods of preparation.
• Support the annual business and operating risk stress-testing modelling in Microsoft Excel.
• Bring resilience to your role by building and maintain excellent catalogue of standard operating procedures and timetables.
• Grow an in-depth knowledge of the chart of accounts, ledger string coding, finance systems such as Essbase, HFM and Oracle Fusion.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Group financial controllership team.
• Capital Markets Finance Business Partnering team.
• Central FP&A team.
• Wider controllership function especially group policy and consolidations and compliance.
• Offshore Centre of Excellence teams in India and Sri Lanka.
• External and internal auditors.
• Group Tax.

WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN:

LSEG offers a competitive base salary and leave allowance. The role will present several development opportunities and an opportunity to work alongside, and learn from, director and chief finance officer level team leaders. We recognize that to be inclusive and attract the best talent, we need to be flexible, and we are open to discussing work arrangements with you. We take a hybrid approach to the workplace and this role is Blended.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Tenacious. Ability to identify, chase down issues and follow through to conclusion.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or similar) / Degree in a related field with a minimum of 2 - 5 years PQE.
• Strong stakeholder management track record.
• Experience producing Management Reporting packs including preparation of income statements, balance sheets and cashflows.
• Excel modelling, optimisation and control experience.
• Experience with charts, writing commentary and reporting in PowerPoint and MS Word.
• Effective oral and written communication that resonates with the target audience.
• Experience in Oracle / Oracle Fusion, Hyperion systems will be an added advantage.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Background in financial services or capital markets.
• Experience with Blackline, Oracle, Hyperion and Essbase Systems is desirable.
• Financial operational improvement.

OUR PEOPLE:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder - which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 65 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

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. 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.

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

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that 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.

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