Job Description

Role Profile

As part of Data and Feeds, the Business Manager for News is responsible for partnering with our News Leadership Team to execute delivery of our strategic news strategy. This is a key business role reporting to the Global Head of Business Management, Data and Feeds and working closely with Global Head of News. A large part of the responsibility involves working with strategic partners as well coordinating with internal teams to ensure that our efforts remain in alignment with the needs of our existing customer base and potential growth opportunities. The role is expected to balance demands from various partners when setting priorities and will suit candidates who are commercially and technically minded and highly motivated, with an appetite for discovering new content and applying technical and content knowledge to new data and use cases.

This is a global role (based in Bangalore) within LSEG\xe2\x80\x99s Data & Analytics division working in Data and Feeds and will support News Teams across all regions driving business planning, and coordinating the implementation of challenging change programmes.

Role Description

LSEG is the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading provider of news content to the financial community. From the fastest breaking news and market-moving exclusives to analysis, investigative reports and insightful commentary, we deliver news from every corner of the world that\xe2\x80\x99s designed for consumption by both humans and machines. We power the financial markets by combining exclusive access to Reuters award-winning news with more than 10,000 other sources in multiple languages, including from specialist and commentary news sources. Our news and analysis covers the areas that financial professionals care about the most - economics and central banking, companies and industries, banking and finance, foreign exchange, fixed income and equities markets, politics and general issues. Using the world\xe2\x80\x99s most advanced classification structure combined with powerful tagging and search capabilities, the sheer breadth and depth of our news content is simple to navigate and discover, allowing our customers to know \xe2\x80\x93 and act \xe2\x80\x93 first.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive business management processes and tools for the Business Unit, implementing best practices to deliver business and customer benefit.
• Identify and track business risk and operational improvements in consultation with key stakeholders and manage implementation of enhancements to delivery with ongoing monitoring to drive positive outcomes for the business.
• Manage external and internal reporting activities, including quarterly reporting to Boards / the Group, annual budgets, business plans, risk and cost reviews ensuring clear, timely and accurate communication.
• Manage the budget and forecasting processes for the Business Unit, and projects, providing timely financial analysis to the Leadership Team working in conjunction with Finance Leads.
• Drive adherence to the operational risk and control management framework(s), ensuring regular reviews of KPIs and MI reporting to identify risk incidents or emerging issues, and initiate action plans with relevant Teams to remediate issues.
• Lead significant projects, programs and business initiatives, demonstrating creativity and ingenuity and track and report progress of both strategic and ad-hoc projects for the Business Unit.
• Determine and clearly articulate work priorities based on general direction from Managers, Group and Divisional Strategic Goals,
• Contribute to the development of new product models and concepts and Business Unit Strategy and Business Planning.
• Contribute subject matter expertise to middle and senior management to resolve complex issues.

Key Behaviours

• Ability to balance multiple projects and priorities, making strategic decisions on time, quality, and cost to deliver complex activities.
• Continuously adopt a pragmatic, flexible and responsive approach.
• Maintain constructive and supportive working relationships with stakeholders.
• Apply tools and processes to effectively identify and quantify project-level risks, proactively communicating their impact with stakeholders.

Candidate Profile / Key Skills

Essential

• Process management and excellence: Ability to design, implement and continuously optimize business processes.
• Project management: Demonstrates the discipline of planning, organising and managing resources and activities to achieve specified outcomes within a clearly defined goals, timeframe and standards.
• Change management: Demonstrates the ability to identify both enablers and barriers to change, and effectively engage and influence teams to embrace new ways of working and drive delivery.
• Stakeholder management: Ability to identify the right stakeholders, their specific and points of view, and address and incorporate in key efforts in a positive and consultative approach.
• Communication skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, confident presentation skills and abilities.
• Data and information visualization: Demonstrates the ability to gather, synthesize and visualize data and information to draw out business insight and action including Word, Excel (VLook up, Pivots) and advanced PowerPoint and Power BI an advantage.

Preferred

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree (in Business or Finance) or equivalent and relevant professional qualifications and experience.
• Knowledge of LSEG\xe2\x80\x99s business, members, products, services, competitive and regulatory landscape.
• Experience of financial and risk management best practice.
• FISD Financial Information Associate (FIA) Qualification an advantage.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone\xe2\x80\x99s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants\' and employees\' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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