Thomson Reuters - Assistant Manager- Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Description:

Serve as assistant manager and business partner to the Head - FP&A. Provide tools and analysis to ensure financial and operational targets are achieved. Lead team of analysts and perform traditional financial activities including:

- Target/budget establishment, forecasting;

- Monthly close, reporting, variance analysis;

- Partner with corporate finance, corporate accounting and BU core finance teams.

- Stakeholder communication, coordination

- Metric and operational performance

- FTE reporting - plan vs. actual for ~2000 people.

The incumbent in this role will also be responsible for teaming with Senior Management to evaluate strategic initiatives. In this capacity, the incumbent will develop business cases, economic analysis and justification to support investment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Financial Forecasting & Planning:

Monthly forecasting of calendar year expectations against plan and revised targets.

Responsible for leading the annual planning process, comparing against targets, and operationalizing plan challenges.

- Decision Support:

Provide Financial analysis on Investment, Efficiency Initiatives and Business Cases

Provide decision support analysis to help the business segments analyse their ET&O spend.

Facilities Tracking for Space Availability and allocations out to other TR BU

- P&L Accountability:

Monthly Close - Working with accounting shared services to ensure accurate financials, setting up & reviewing accruals, and overall management of the monthly close process

Analyzing monthly results for ET&O Ops Centers and providing variance commentary to senior leadership with metrics for volume/price, headcount savings specific to open headcount vs. comp saving

Ensuring all financial systems are correctly aligned with ET&O operations, including SAP & Cognos hierarchy changes, restatements, etc.

Headcount Reporting - By Location and BU

Project Tracking for ET&O projects

Capex Prioritization and Tracking for ET&O projects

Volumes Tracking for 3rd Party Vendor Expense

- Allocations:

Responsible for developing and maintaining an allocation model to distribute ET&O Operating costs to IP&S, LEO and TRTA Business segments;

- People

- Facility

Scope:

- Expense / Capital annual spend: $90M; responsible for the P&L and coordinate with Corporate accounting team for any issues related to financial results may it be P&L /or Balance sheet;

- Direct Team Size: 3 experienced finance professionals;

- Primary Business Partner to nine site leaders; BU FP&A leads and content editorial BU head for IP&S, T&A and Legal

- Geographies Covered: 9 operating centers located across globe - (3) in India, Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, Poland, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica

Experience / Skills / Etc:

- 10+ years of Finance experience with demonstration of quick progression of responsibility and accomplishment;

- Well versed with SAP/Cognos/SAP-BW/Hyperion Essbase

- Superior communication and business partnering skills and experience;

- Balance of finance, accounting, and strategic analysis experience;

- Superior Leadership, and motivation of team members;

- MBA and/or Chartered Accountant