About the Role

The 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 Responsibilities

As Vice President Finance O&T you will report to the Head of Corporate Finance and 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.
• Set the financial governance for end-to-end Cloud and LLM spend budgets forecasting ROI models and determine overall Cloud/LLM strategy with Technology Product Finance and Segment leadership.
• Support AI investment strategy across Thomson Reuters to drive optimization and efficiency targets tied to automation and the use of new AI tools that re-imagine how we work.
• 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.
• Manage across a complex matrix organization. Identify solutions to complete unfunded tasks while working cooperatively with other business stakeholders to adjudicate equitable funding solutions.
• Work with the Chief Operations and Technology Officer and the leadership team to improve the partnership between the Finance and O&T organizations 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 capitalization analysis capital planning third party spend planning (including Outsourced contractor resources and Cloud expenditure) resource effectiveness and productivity analysis efficiency planning program support migrations & obsolescence 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 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 You

You 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

Location

The 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.

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