Vice President, Finance - Operations & Technology

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.

As Vice President, Finance – O&T, you will report to the Head of Corporate Finance and willp>

• 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…