Finance Manager - Reuters Technology - Decision Support and Insights Group

DSIG is responsible for financial reporting, financial processes, and analytics, supporting all the segments of Thomson Reuters across the different functions. We drive business partnership, standardization, and automations across the groups - leveraging latest technology to drive efficiencies and ensuring best practice sharing across the business, for higher effectiveness.In addition, this team drives informational analysis and reporting to support Business decisions and strategies. This role supports the Reuters News business and specifically the Reuters Technology business.

About Reuters
Reuters is the world's largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity, and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

About the Role
In this opportunity as Finance Manager - Reuters Technology, you will:

• Provide timely and accurate reporting of monthly results in matrix format (by project, by business unit).
• Ensure timely preparation of Management review decks and follow through on the decisions taken.
• Drive monthly discussion of results with Global Senior Leadership.
• Convert business strategy into actionable financial planning.
• Drive all Planning processes - Forecasts, Annual Operating Plans and Strategic Planning -- and ensure that all operational/business decisions/events are properly reflected in financial metrics.
• Generate and disseminate actionable business insights to help accomplish management objectives, understanding the interaction of OPEX and CAPEX budget and the implications of decisions on both areas.
• Working closely with Segment and Finance leaders to build Annual plan and forecasts.
• Standardize and simplify reporting.
• Provide end-to-end Business partnership to help segments drive strategic initiatives.

About You
You're a fit for the role of Finance Manager - Reuters Technology if your background includes:

• Desired MBA, CFA Qualifications or Qualified by experience.
• 10+ years of experience in corporate finance/analytics.
• Strong communicator.
• Self-starter, pro-active and independent worker.
• Significant experience business partnering with global senior leadership.
• Thorough understanding of CAPEX and OPEX interaction and budget implications - including people capitalization and capitalization rates.
• Significant experience in project management accounting.
• Significant experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and reviewing the bigger picture.
• Careful planning to achieve accurate and timely results.
• Interest in Technology.
• Eye for Detail .
• Ability to work with Global Teams.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
• Self-motivated / Result oriented / Open to learning new technologies.
• Interpersonal Skill to Guide and Motivate team members.
• Good Knowledge of MS office- Excel, Power Point.
• Knowledge of SAP, Financial Planning Tools - e.g., Hyperion, OneStream (desirable).
• Knowledge of automation and visualization tools - VBA/Python/PowerBI/Tableau (desirable).

Desirable Experience

• Significant experience supporting a technology division from a finance point of view, handling budgets and projects from both an OPEX and CAPEX perspective.
• Significant experience in matrix project management reporting, ability to work through implications of strategic decisions from both an OPEX and CAPEX perspective.
• Significant experience business partnering with senior Global Leadership.
• Pro-active mindset seeking out information, solutions and implementing these in a timely manner.

What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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