Manager Finance – Finance Data Controls

Job Description

Assistant Manager – Data Flow Controls, Finance | London Stock Exchange Group

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at London Stock Exchange Group, supporting its finance transformation agenda. LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, committed to driving financial stability and empowering economies. This position is vital for strengthening the end-to-end data control framework across planning, reporting, and analytics processes within the finance function. It ensures the accuracy, integrity, and completeness of financial data, supporting the crucial transition from manual to automated, scalable controls aligned with modern finance architecture.

The TL;DR
• Role: Senior Associate
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Not specified

• Team: Finance transformation agenda, reporting to a Finance Manager
• Mission: Strengthen the end-to-end data control framework to ensure accuracy, integrity, and completeness of financial data across all finance processes.
• Tech Stack: EPM, Power Automate, ERP platforms, reporting tools, Microsoft Office packages (PowerPoint, Excel/ Power BI/Query, Word), other BI tools.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Own Data Controls: Own critical data reconciliations across finance systems, ensuring data consistency across plan, forecast, and actuals by defining standards, frequency, thresholds, and escalation protocols.
• Design & Enhance Frameworks: Continuously review and enhance the end-to-end data control framework, ensuring it is comprehensive, scalable, and audit-compliant, while defining new control checks for evolving architecture.
• Assess System Impacts: Evaluate the implications of system implementations, integrations, and enhancements on existing reconciliations, data flows, and control design, partnering to embed controls into future-state processes.
• Automate Controls: Drive the automation of manual reconciliations and control checks using tools like EPM or Power Automate to improve effectiveness through real-time monitoring and automated alerts.
• Lead Issue Resolution: Lead root cause analysis for reconciliation breaks and control failures, differentiating between tactical fixes and strategic solutions, and tracking recurring issues for sustainable resolution.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance or Data Analytics. This is a Senior Associate career stage role.
• Experience: Experience in large, complex, multi-system finance environments, with prior exposure to finance transformation programs and a proven track record of interacting with senior management.
• Skills: Strong understanding of financial planning & reporting processes (FP&A), data flows, and reconciliations across finance systems, coupled with strong root cause analysis capability and experience driving automation.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to work across Finance, Engineering, and Transformation teams with strong communication skills to translate technical issues into business impact.