Finance Manager, Reuters News and Media
This position will be based in London with hybrid working available.
Do you want to use your knowledge of financial compliance and book-keeping to deliver key processes at the world's leading news and media organisation If so, this might be the role for you.
Reuters are looking for a
Finance Manager to work closely with our global news bureaus and their respective leadership teams.
In this unique role, you'll sit within the finance team, reporting directly to the CFO of Reuters News. As
Finance Manager, Reuters News and Media, you'll be responsible for ensuring the ongoing compliance with Thomson Reuters and Reuters cash-compliance policies on a global scale. You'll be a strategic thinker, able to design and implement new procedures that will be effective in all of our global news bureaus and will work closely with a range of senior stakeholders to establish key processes and controls, whilst leading process improvement initiatives that will be effective across multiple continents.
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 and 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 General Managers 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
You're a fit for the role of
Finance Manager, Reuters News and Media if you have
:
- Demonstrable experience supporting a business division from a finance, accounting or financial compliance point of view and/or outside audit experience.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to partner with global senior leadership teams and collaborate with various business stakeholders across borders.
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to work autonomously, spotting risks and opportunities on a global scale.
- Significant experience in project management accounting, with a great eye for detail and the ability to achieve accurate and timely results.
- The desire to learn and implement new processes and technologies, with a track record of achieving results.
- Good Knowledge of MS office- Excel, Power Point.
- Significant experience supporting a business division from a finance, accounting or financial compliance point of view and/or outside audit experience.
Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by Sunday 7th July 2024. Early applications are encouraged.
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 caf 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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