You will help deliver accurate financial reporting, standardize processes, and partner with global stakeholders to continuously strengthen the financial control environment.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver timely and accurate financial accounting and control services for LSEG subsidiaries.
• Standardize and document processes to build resilience and improve efficiency.
• Lead the onboarding of new activities and align processes with the Target Operating Model.
• Develop clear and effective training materials to support new team members.
• Ensure compliance with LSEG policies and maintain strong financial controls.
• Guide the team to meet tight reporting deadlines while upholding quality standards.
• Support external audits and collaborate closely with auditors to resolve queries.
• Contribute to group-wide projects and help implement new systems and processes.
• Build strong partnerships across Entity Accounting, Financial Control, Group Reporting, and Statutory Reporting teams.

Requirements:

• Passed finalist in CIMA/ACCA/CA with at least 5 years of relevant experience (or equivalent experience with partial qualification).
• Experience in finance shared services or managing similar scopes is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Oracle Fusion, HFM/ FCCS, and Blackline systems.
• Strong foundation in financial accounting and accounting concepts.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and meeting tight deadlines.
• Ability to lead and develop a team across geographies.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with complex spreadsheets.
• Track record in process standardization and documentation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt in a fast-changing environment.
• Ability to work UK business hours.

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The Delivery Manager manages planning of delivery across the development lifecycle for multiple applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns and leads planning for multiple scrum teams
• Work closely with Product Owners to ensure backlog items are refined prior to acceptance into an iteration/sprint
• Produce Agile metrics and reports for Delivery Teams and Partners, driving a data-driven culture
• Mentor and coach team on Agile practices
• Mentor and coach other delivery leads
• Build a culture of continuous improvement and leading team retrospectives
• Encouraging a fail-fast culture of innovation and professionalism within your delivery team
• Play an active role in Communities of Practice to pass on knowledge and build expertise
• Handles risks/dependencies across scrum teams and ensures risk management & mitigation processes are followed within the project by team members
• Liaises with other teams to gather technical and resource requirements, supporting the Program Manager in resource planning and timing of dependencies
• Conduct progress review reporting on planned deliverables to senior leadership and our clients
• Creates and maintains detailed workstream plans and timelines, tracking delivery against key milestones
• Leads issue resolution, providing options and solutions to the team and raising to delivery leadership when required
• Manages relationships with our customers as well as a range of senior business, technology and program management partners
• Understands the roles, needs, and influence of different partners and effectively plan communications to provide appropriate and well-timed updates
• Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders, demonstrating understanding of their perspective, proactivity, and their delivery focus
• Gathers feedback on team performance, identifying issues and suggesting improvements
• Manages planned release cadence for multiple delivery teams

Key Skills:

• In-depth understanding of agile software development projects and lifecycle
• Good understanding of cloud-based system environments and release management practices
• Coaching/Mentoring skills focused on the Agile Software Development Methodologies
• Great interpersonal skills and ability to deal with all levels of management & staff
• Ability to work collaboratively with geographically dispersed cross-functional teams and team members
• Results focused with ability to work under pressure, to deadlines and without constant supervision
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive management style

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electronics or IT related field or equivalent IT related experience
• Certification in Agile methodologies such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or Scaled Agile Certification
• Minimum of 10 years’ software delivery experience within an Agile Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience working as a Scrum Master/Team Coach within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) would be advantageous
• Prior knowledge of Agile project management tools, such as Jira and confluence

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