Senior Manager Finance - EMEA Commercial Controllership

About us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years!

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our people:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think and how we do things.

We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage collaboration, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and exciting experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

As a global organization spanning 70 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 significant careers.

Role purpose:

This is a people leadership role, reporting into the Director of Commercial Controllership. This role works with the Sales & Accounts Management leaders, divisional CFOs, Order Management, Billing, Collections and Centre of Excellence team to ensure best in class revenue accounting and assurance practices to enable accurate and robust revenue accounting (~$6bn revenue) for D&A division. The role also leads efforts to improve upstream and downstream finance processes (e.g. ECL, debt provisioning and Embedded derivative) and ensuring enhancing data accuracy, compliance with LSEG policies and procedures.

Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

Integrity

• Assist in reviewing customer arrangements to resolve proper revenue recognition in accordance with LSEG policy.

• Review and approve revenue treatment, and accounting documentation

• Leads technical accounting research to accurately account for and to report significant and complex transactions.

• Attests to the adaptability of sub-divisional / regional or functional reporting processes and financial controls and may support Group consolidation.

• Coordination and control of the monthly Sales and Revenue close, in full compliance with internal and external reporting standards and policies.

• Drives the audits process and provide opinions on the key matters/judgmental items.

• Performs Revenue related financial controls, review Balance sheet reconciliations and supports Group consolidation.

Partnership

• Partner with key internal customers, including Sales & Accounts Management, Performance & Insight team, business Finance, Billing, collection and Finance controllership to assist internally in the structuring of contracts to support revenue recognition objectives, ensuring full clarity of monthly revenue performance and corrective action processes in revenue accounting

• Working with controllership and auditors on acceptance of the revenue dispositions.

Excellence

• Delivering complex solutions which can include but are not limited to:

• Ground-breaking process change and cost optimization

• Enabling technology / digital implementations like automation through MS tools like Power BI, Power Automate, etc. and others

• release time and people from transactional work to perform value adding activities whilst maintaining an optimized control environment.

• Drives decisions to standardize processes.

• Ensures adequate and timely root cause analysis to identify problem drivers and implementation of necessary corrections and/or changes.

• Mentor/Coach and develop new joiners.

Change

• Serve as change agent by influencing, communicating, and institutionalizing a culture of simplification and standardization in the area of revenue assurance

• Evaluate and evolve systems, policies, processes and workflow, ensuring full engagement with relevant partners and motivating change and adoption.

• Lead and innovate improvement in execution roadmap within D&A Finance stream which primarily includes O2C and R2R processes.

• Leads integration of newly acquired entities with key focus on integration of finance process, finance system, finance people and compliance within the LSEG environment

• Actively participates in the development and continuous improvement of global process and technology through documentation, training, testing, and controls.

Qualifications and Experience

• Accounting qualification (CA, ACCA, CPA, CFA or equivalent) OR MBA Finance from the best-in-class institute  

• A minimum of 12 years work experience with some related work experience in controllership and revenue assurance & revenue recognition

• Experience with revenue recognition accounting,

• IFRS 15 and IFRS 9 exposure is required.

• Strong analytical, organizational and project managements abilities

• Consistent track record of developing teams and talent

• Extensive experience in financial control.

• Subject matter expertise with strong understanding of finance processes (O2C, R2R) and systems

• Finance transformation experience

Knowledge And Skills

• Knowledge of IFRS principle

• Exposure to Power BI tools, confirmed experience in automating, simplifying and streamline sophisticated finance processes

• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

• Proactive energetic approach and able to challenge the status-quo

• Strong business acumen

• Self-starter, responsible, accountable

• Flexibility to work per UK hours

• Demonstrated experience working in a matrixed global environment.

• Formal continuous improvement (e.g. LEAN / Six Sigma) and project management (e.g. PMP) certification/training desirable.

• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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.

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.

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.

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

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