Senior Director, Finance – CIO Group, Operations & Technology
About CIO, Operations & Technology
Do you want to shape how a global technology organisation invests, scales, and delivers impact? Join Thomson Reuters as a strategic finance partner to the CIO, helping drive performance across a $750M organisation.
The Senior Director, Finance partners directly with the CIO and leadership team to deliver financial performance, optimise investment, and enable strategic decision-making across Operations & Technology. The CIO organization delivers enterprise technology across infrastructure, security, corporate systems, commercial engineering, employee technology, service management, M&A integration, and customer trust — enabling TR to operate, innovate, and scale globally.
About the Role
The Senior Director, Finance will act as the business partner to the Chief Information Officer, working directly with them and their leadership team to meet expense and capital targets and support the delivery of business objectives. There are 3,500 FTEs and contractors across the CIO organization, which are divided into pillars with a total annual cash OI of $750M. The role reports to the VP, Decision Support & Insights Group (DSIG), and is a member of both the CIO Leadership team and the Operations & Technology Finance Leadership team. Additional key relationships/stakeholders for the role include the relevant HR business partners, Corporate Finance, CIO pillar leads, CIO Chief of Staff , Product Engineering, Product, Vendor Management, Corporate Development, the Chief Accountant’s Office and the Enterprise Prioritization Committee (EPC).
In this opportunity as Senior Director, Finance , you will:
- Lead finance business partnering : Partner with CIO and leadership to deliver financial and operational targets
- Own technology spend strategy : Govern Software, Telecom and IT spend, budgets, and forecasts
- Drive investment decision-making : Build business cases, ROI models, and capital plans
- Optimize cost and performance : Improve resource utilisation, productivity, and efficiency
- Deliver financial planning & reporting : Lead budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis
- Support commercial outcomes : Provide financial input to vendor negotiations and cost modelling
- Enable M&A activity : Lead due diligence, integration modelling, and synergy tracking
- Strengthen stakeholder partnership : Align CIO with Product, Engineering, and business teams
- Ensure financial integrity : Partner with Accounting on accurate financial treatment
- Lead and develop team : Build capability and performance of the finance team
- Drive finance transformation : Advance automation, analytics, and financial systems
About You
You're a fit for the role of Senior Director, Finance if your background includes:
- Recognized accountancy qualification or equivalent with extensive experience in Finance roles. Relevant experience including experience with technology teams, capital planning and associated systems would be an advantage.
- Excellent communication and people skills; ability to converse with senior management openly and confidently and influence all areas of the business.
- Ability to synthesize information and present results in a clear and concise manner to senior executives.
- Knowledge of accounting principles and their application.
- Experience thinking strategically and building business development plans.
- Tenacious and driven by delivering results.
- Strong leadership and management skills.
- Interpersonal skills to guide and motivate global team members.
- Proactive, very organized, ability to multitask, managing time and competing priorities in a dynamic environment, anticipating and servicing evolving needs.
- Enjoys working in teams; shows ability to work effectively across all functions of the business.
- Customer focused, proactive, and has a good understanding of Thomson Reuters strategy and business model.
- Clear, effective communicator and comfortable presenting to large audiences.
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What’s in it For You?
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.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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.
DISCLAIMER
The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
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