Asst. Manager, Finance - Business Solutions

The Finance BSG (Business Solution Group) is responsible for working with counterparts & leaders across the LSEG Finance organization in providing assistance to create and deploy streamlined and intelligent Business Solutions and work with counterparts within the company and clients to manage/operate complex end-to-end financial workflows.

• We are looking to hire an Asst. Manager,  to augment our support for the aforesaid activities.
•  The individual will be reporting to Senior Manager, Finance Operational Excellence / Manager Finance Business Solutions Group, the role will be based out of either Colombo Sri Lanka or Bangalore, India

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the team engaging counterparts & senior stakeholders across LSEG Finance/ business divisions to deliver current projects in scope and/or leading conversations on transitioning/build-deliver/build-operate type of worklets
• Assume responsibility for solution build & deployment responsibilities for projects of medium complexity across Business Solutions domains involving current stakeholders
• Identify work-elements having repetitive, manual heavy processes, assess such work from a simplification point of view and work with colleagues @ Finance CoE or counterparts across LSEG Finance/Divisions to provide automation driven streamlined solutions

Must Have Attributes

• Urge to Learn: a demonstrated aptitude towards learning ‘things new’; is a must.
• Eye for details and ability to identify trends/anomalies and provide causal attribution thereto are crucial
• A demonstrated ability to use tools, frameworks, and advanced techniques to address stakeholder ask to build a scalable, light-touch and robust solution is highly desirable
• Ability to communicate, both verbally and on correspondence; in a clear, concise, and engaging fashion with seniors, peers & colleagues across finance
• Demonstrated track record of significant and meaningful participation to ensure timely, accurate delivery of work at hand for self and the team
• A good understanding of the Finance function and the business will be necessary for the role
• Current exposure to enterprise systems in use across Finance and Operations functions will be a plus
• Educational Qualifications – Graduate degree in Commerce, Accounting, Science or Business Management and/or professional qualifications (CPA/CFA/CA/CIMA)
• Work Experience Required: 5-8 Years

Desirable skillsets

Business Understanding

• Good understanding of the business context including an understanding of the products and services offerings and their user profiles
• Business Process Context - "flow of money" esp. for the area of work remit
• Understanding competition, pricing policies, linking individual business line performances to overall goal of BU/ LSEG entity
• Understanding context, environment, challenges to business and business strategies and the ability to identify areas where CoE Business Solution Group and/ or Finance CoE can partner with the stakeholders to provide efficient outcome

Relationship Management

• Aptitude to significantly contribute to interactions with divisional finance/business leads across all aspects of relationship spectrum; especially on current delivery/ transition & exploring adjacencies
• Exposure to managing wider group interactions with Peers & seniors to help expansion of the scale and scope of role of Finance CoE

Task Management Capabilities

• Thorough understanding of task at hand, understanding the objective of the underlying activities & the stakeholders’ context for any work undertaken
• Ability to clearly map/articulate Upstream Dependency & Downstream Utilization
• Workflow mapping capability, esp. for identifying weak links, cut-over points, roles & responsibilities & time criticality assessment
• In addition, the incumbent would also be expected scale up to identify Vertical & Horizontal adjacencies, and become Subject Matter Expertise/Go To person for the Finance CoE in supported solution areas

Tools/workflow related knowledge

• Good understanding of the framework and tools and applications involved in one or more of the following areas
  • ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) activities utilizing relational database or newer tools (Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau) addressing semi-structured, non-normalized data from multiple enterprise data sources
  • Familiarity with/ expertise in one/more (computer) language frameworks, including libraries, addressing ‘desktop automation’ domains e.g., Visual Basic (VBA/vb.net)/ Python /
  • Robotic Process Automation software esp. Microsoft Power Automate or UI path/Automation Anywhere/Blue Prism
  • Visualization a.k.a. presentation layer, using Power BI/Tableau/SSRS, to create solutions allowing stakeholders to create storyline incorporating causal attribution and the ability to present such to the desired audience with minimal ongoing effort

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