Vice President, Finance - Operations & Technology

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About The RoleThe Vice President, Finance – Operations & Technology (O&T) leads the financial function of O&T within Thomson Reuters. This role brings strategic and financial insights to operational decision making. As a forward-thinking leader, the focus of this role is on internal and external financial, and non-financial elements of the business and making strategically sound financial decisions to drive intrinsic value and generate increased shareholder returns. A deep understanding of all aspects of the groups within this function and ability to effectively partner with the Chief Operations & Technology Officer and the leadership team is key to build synergies, leverage scale and reduce complexity and cost. With the O&T leadership, this role co-owns the financial, operational and investment decisions for the function and leads processes, organization, and technology to provide strategic decision support.This role is also a member of the Enterprise Prioritization Committee (EPC) and will play an integral role in our capital prioritization process and ensuring our investment dollars are aligned to our strategic direction.Key ResponsibilitiesAs Vice President, Finance – O&T, you will:

• Be responsible for all Cost, Capital & Headcount / Resource strategic, business, and operational planning and forecasting for the O&T function, partnering closely with the Chief Operations & Technology Officer and leadership team providing insights, challenges and influencing the O&T organization to define and achieve our strategic priorities and to ensure they maximize business performance. This also includes the identification of opportunities and risks against the forecasts/plans and developing mitigation pathways to meet the business objectives and financial targets of O&T.
• Be responsible for planning, forecasting and performance commentary analysis and reporting for the O&T function, working closely with the Chief Operations & Technology Officer and leadership team as well as the DSIG Finance function.
• Provide strategic, business, and operational leadership and supporting analysis to ensure that we use our resources and capital to our best advantage to drive revenue and profit and ensure we are aligned with our strategic priorities. You will work on the development, implementation and reporting of appropriate KPIs such as capitalization rates, efficiency actions and product profitability analysis (with the wider Finance team and business stakeholders as required).
• Analyze and interpret financial information pertaining to business performance and make recommendations concerning strategy, business policy, resource allocation, and business operations to improve our financial performance. You will alert key executives to trends in the financial performance of various business lines that may require management action.
• Help to steer the overall strategy and culture of Finance and O&T as a member of the relevant leadership teams across Finance, O&T and Thomson Reuters.
• Work with the Chief Operations and Technology Officer and the leadership team to improve the partnership between the Finance and O&T organisations and the key groups with which it interacts including the Segments and Regions, Product & Editorial. You will provide transparency to key stakeholders functions outside O&T on underlying cost drivers, giving insight and driving collaboration to create efficiency and organization wide prioritization.
• Be responsible for all decision support and commercial finance activities in O&T including contribution to the production of and ownership of business cases, resource utilization and capitalisation analysis, capital planning, third party spend planning (including Outsourced contractor resources and Cloud expenditure), resource effectiveness and productivity analysis, efficiency planning, programme support, migrations & obsolescences and other ad-hoc projects as required.
• Be responsible for planning, forecasting opex and capital requirements in business cases, including their capitalization treatment. You will help the organization make capital and resource allocation decisions through financial analysis (e.g., classic financial analyses such as ROI and DCF/NPV).
• Be an active, voting member of the Enterprise Prioritization Committee, the capital allocation mechanism for the organization which will require understanding of products, revenue generation, and TR wide objectives and strategy.
• Work in conjunction with the rest of the Finance team, including Accounting and other teams within DSIG to ensure accurate and appropriate accounting treatment of all financial activities related to the business. You will ensure compliance with Thomson Reuters policies and procedures e.g., SOX and Audit.
• Develop and maintain your indirect Finance team, establishing standards for performance and giving appropriate direction to the broader Finance organization. You will develop your indirect team to ensure growth in the capabilities of the Finance function and to support succession plans across the Finance department.
• Lead and contribute to agreed finance transformation initiatives and projects across O&T and the broader Finance teams, including continued adoption of automation tools and machine learning / predictive forecasting models, new financial systems, and tools such as OneStream and PowerBI, ongoing review and improvement of key processes including simplification and standardization where appropriate.

About YouYou are a fit for the role of Vice President, Finance – O&T if your background includes:

• Minimum 10 years fiscal responsibility for a global company, business unit or function
• Recognized accountancy qualification or equivalent with extensive experience in finance roles, financial management expertise and deep knowledge of accounting principles
• Integrated knowledge of Thomson Reuters; customer focused, proactive and has good understanding of Thomson Reuters strategy and business model
• Strategic, forward thinker, results oriented
• Strong business acumen and operationally astute
• Innovative, creative problem solver
• Proactive, highly organized, ability to multitask, managing time and competing priorities in a dynamic environment, anticipating, and servicing evolving needs
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Excellent communication and people skills; ability to converse with senior management openly and confidently and influence all areas of the business
• Ability to synthesize information and present results in a clear and concise manner to senior executives and comfortable presenting to large audiences
• Strong relationship management, collaboration, and influencing skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively across all functions of the business
• Ability to lead/work on cross-functional initiatives or projects
• Excellent people leadership and management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to guide and motivate global team members
• Strong ethics and accountability

LocationThe role is located in Zug, Switzerland. The successful candidate must be based in Switzerland or willing to relocate and will work under a hybrid model, spending a minimum of three days a week in office.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 for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Eight 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.

DISCLAIMERThe above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.AccessibilityAs a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.