Finance Manager / Senior Manager - Reuters News and Media

Finance Manager / Senior Manager - Reuters News and Media

About Reuters

Reuters is the world’s leading provider of trusted news, insight and analysis, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Founded in 1851, it brings together world-class journalism, industry expertise and cutting-edge technology with unparalleled speed, reliability and accuracy to enable people to make better decisions. Reuters is committed to the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles, including that of independence, integrity and freedom from bias, and is an essential source of business, financial and world news delivered to the world’s media organizations, to professionals via industry events and Reuters.com, and to financial market professionals exclusively via LSEG products.

About the Role:

As a Finance Manager, Reuters News and Media, you will:

• Report directly to the CFO of Reuters News, while partnering closely with the Senior Director of Reuters Finance for global expenses, the Editorial Operations leadership team, and the Editorial bureau teams all over the world
• Be responsible for ensuring ongoing compliance with Thomson Reuters and Reuters cash compliance policies and procedures in all bureaus across the world, including establishing processes and controls and leading process improvement initiatives globally
• Responsible for ensuring the Reuters Bureaus have proper controls in place around books and records to make sure the Financial Statements are complete and accurate
• Sit in (remote via Microsoft Teams) on regular cash counts at various global bureaus on a monthly basis
• Review the monthly Cash reconciliation for each bureau location including checks on opening and closing balances, transaction detail backed up by receipts
• Review vendor payment methods and ensure these align with Thomson Reuters AP processes
• Ensure proper alignment with Thomson Reuters Travel & Entertainment expense policies across our global bureau locations
• Work closely with accounting/controllership teams on accurate posting of petty cash entries to the general ledger
• Lead regular refresher training sessions with global bureau chiefs and regional GMs on Reuters cash policies and procedures
• Provide monthly and quarterly report outs to the Reuters CFO and Editorial operations leadership team
• Work with Thomson Reuters Treasury team to ensure bureaus have adequate access to cash and bank accounts, in USD or local currency where needed
• Be the main liaison for Reuters with Thomson Reuters internal audit team

About you:

As a Finance Manager, Reuters News and Media you will have:

• Desired MBA, CPA, CA Qualifications or Qualified by experience.
• 10+ years of experience in corporate finance, accounting/audit, and/or financial compliance.
• Strong communicator.

• Self-starter, pro-active and independent worker.
• Significant experience business partnering with global senior leadership.
• Significant experience in project management accounting.
• Careful planning to achieve accurate and timely results.
• Eye for detail.
• Ability to work with Global Teams.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
• Self-motivated / Result oriented / Open to learning new technologies.
• Interpersonal Skill to Guide and Motivate your team members.

• Good Knowledge of MS office- Excel, Power Point.
• Knowledge of SAP, Financial Planning Tools - e.g., Hyperion, OneStream (desirable).
• Knowledge of automation and visualization tools – VBA/Python/PowerBI/Tableau (desirable).

Desirable Experience

• Significant experience supporting a business division from a finance, accounting or financial compliance point of view and/or significant outside audit experience
• Significant experience in matrix project management reporting
• Significant experience business partnering with senior leadership globally, often remotely.
• Pro-active mindset seeking out information, solutions and implementing these in a timely manner.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  
  

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  
  

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  
  

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  
  

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  
  

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

  
  

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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