Position Overview & Specifications
Senior Finance Business Partner- Securities & CaLM
An exciting Senior FBP opportunity has arisen in Finance, reporting to the LCH Group CFO, supporting the Equities, Fixed Income and Collateral & Liquidity Business Lines within the Post Trade Division.
The Post Trade Division, one of the three LSEG business divisions and a significant player in Global financial markets, has 2022 income of £991m. The division contains four core businesses, LCH Ltd (world’s largest clearing house and largest counterparty to most global banks), LCH SA (national French clearing house and a credit institution); UnaVista (pan European regulatory reporting service) and most recently Post Trade Solutions, comprising nascent businesses Quantile, SwapAgent and Acadia.
The business provides systemically critical services to the market, is globally relevant and is highly regulated by several regulators including the Bank of England, Banque De France and CFTC. The division provides a range of clearing and bilateral services as well as financial resource optimisation and reporting solutions to support customers’ risk and balance sheet management, regulatory reporting, and capital efficiency.
This role requires a talented and experienced finance business partner who can work closely with the LCH Group CFO, its leadership team, and the Heads of the Businesses .
This role is will be based in London, LSEG 10 Paternoster Square and is Hybrid.
Job description:
- A self-starter and independent worker with the ability to deal with ambiguity and imperfect data. End to end ownership of all financials aspects of the business including month end, budgets, FY forecasts, strategic support, key projects and commercial negotiations.
- Enabling the senior management to achieve the targeted financial results by providing adequate business and commercial support. Demonstrate strong customer-focus with a commercial mindset and analytical skills
- Understand the key business levers (KPIs/KRIs) and link that will financial data for proactive decision support and value add for the leadership team
- Delivering the results within budget and tracking it closely through monthly full year forward looking forecast / analysis, ensuring no surprises across the Leadership teams, Business management, Finance.
- Working with the business on maintaining a monthly/FY forecast, highlighting risks and opportunities where appropriate as well as levers for optimization / mitigation
- Develop business cases and financial returns analysis to support the development of our international business and other change initiatives
- Periodic preparation of Board Packs, Planning and Co-ordinating the budget cycle for LCH Ltd, Annual Stress Testing and Reverse Stress Testing and Annual Wind-down assessment of LCH Ltd
- Working closely with Procurement/Vendor Management on contract negotiation / recognition and challenging assumptions from Vendor Management. Strong commercial focus and ability to constructively challenge.
- ACA, CIMA, MBA or other similar accounting qualification
- Advanced Excel skills and strong working knowledge of PowerPoint required
- A good understanding of the industry and business context is desirable
- Experience in previous Business Partnering and Decision Support or FP&A Role is desirable.
- Has a commercial mindset, able to provide strategic inputs as well as constructive challenge
- Monitoring financial performance and proactively identifying opportunities for improvement and risk mitigation
- Thrives in a matrixed environment supporting senior stakeholders
- Can navigate ambiguity and work through options with the broader team
- Leadership and development of the broader Finance Team including working closed with our colleagues in various locations globally
- A high level of interpersonal skills and an ability to function effectively as part of a global team that coordinates, works, and reports out of different geographies
- Demonstrate strong analytical, organizational, and project managements abilities