Senior Manager, Group Corporate Development

Senior Manager, Group Corporate Development

About us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our people:

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential.

We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers.

About Group Corporate Development at LSEG

The Group Corporate Development team at LSEG is a best in class, successful and high impact team. We are experts in Strategy and M&A and have helped the Group deliver on its M&A strategy over the years: from industry defining partnerships and acquisitions, like the partnership with Microsoft or the acquisition of Refinitiv; to highly complex disposals like the disposal of Borsa Italiana or the disposal of Beta+; to highly strategic bolt-on acquisitions and minority investments like LSEG’s acquisition of Acadia, GDC, TORA and Quantile. These transactions have not only helped transform our Group to drive growth and deliver on our strategic priorities but have also re-shaped our industry.  

The team partners with the CEO, CFO and Executive Committee (ExCo) of LSEG to shape the overall strategy of the Group. It helps identify priorities for growth across our global business and how inorganic activity can support our strategic priorities. The team is responsible for the full life cycle of activity from M&A strategy and origination, deal evaluation and execution and post execution governance. We also support the business across other corporate and business activities.

About this role

We are seeking a successful and collaborative leader to join the team as a Senior Manager. You will act as a key adviser and partner to our businesses, helping them to define their M&A strategy and deliver on key opportunities. You'll be responsible for running a portfolio of activity and leading teams of M&A specialists on active projects. This is a high visibility role, with extensive collaboration with a broad range of leaders across the Group. Within the Group Corporate Development team, you will be a team leader and be responsible for developing and supporting the team’s talent, resources and culture.

To be successful in this role, you should have excellent leadership skills, an ability to bring unique strategic and commercial perspectives to your work, extensive experience in designing and implementing a range of M&A transactions, and a strong ability to build and maintain high quality relationships with a variety of partners.

Key responsibilities

• Adviser to business leaders on strategic and commercial decisions relating to M&A opportunities and projects
• Coordinate a portfolio of M&A activity and lead deal teams to successfully complete transactions
• Expert on M&A best practise, deal structuring and valuation
• Navigate governance processes and ensure we deliver our M&A with highest possible standards
• Ensure strong support from and visibility of projects amongst key corporate and functional partners
• Cultivate strong working relationships with our industry partners including Financial advisers, Investment Banking and Private Equity communities to support delivery of projects
• Build strong industry knowledge and act as an authority on inorganic activity in market
• Develop M&A team and contribute to decisions on team objectives, resourcing, career framework and training

Key skills and experience

The ideal candidate is an experienced M&A professional with a strong background in successfully leading and completing M&A transactions and experience across a wide variety of transaction types and deal structures. Plus;

• Commitment to excellence while leading with trust, openness, inclusivity and humility
• Ability to develop and inspire diverse talent
• Experience of people management as well leading virtual, multi-disciplinary teams
• Show excellent judgment and act poised under pressure
• Willing to invest in building a strong culture
• Ability to support development of M&A pipelines and originating M&A opportunities
• Ability to design M&A processes and factor in key governance turning points and approvals
• Track record of leading M&A teams across multiple M&A projects
• Experience of structuring deals, determining optimal valuations and supporting negotiation of key deal points
• Ability to develop clear and pragmatic recommendations and plans
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to reach across an organization to bring the right expertise and diversity of perspectives together, adopting a range of operating models with different partners based on context and business need
• Displays strong commercial skills and ability to develop perspectives on business strategy, driving ability to focus on what matters for our business in evaluating M&A opportunities and in execution
• Expert level understanding of financial metrics, statements and valuation approaches

MBA or Master’s degree; Professional qualification preferred (e.g. CFA, CA, ACA). For example, you might be a Manager or Senior Manager in a Group Corporate Development/M&A team at a large global corporate and/or have 8+ years of total professional experience including a combination of M&A, Strategy, Finance, investment banking or private equity roles. Expertise in one or more of the following areas preferred: financial market infrastructure, financial services data, B2B data and analytics businesses and platform business models.

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’s 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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