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

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.