Vice President Finance, Legal Professionals

The Vice President of Finance will support the Legal Professionals Small Law Firm, FindLaw and Mid Law Firm sub-segments, driving profitable growth by providing strategic decision support. The Vice President will be a core member of the Finance, Small Firm Law Firm, FindLaw and Medium Law Firm leadership teams. This leader will need to be highly collaborative and skilled in working across teams to drive results and will be serve as finance lead on various initiatives.

This role must partner, develop and nurture key relationships across:

• Members of Legal Professional Finance leadership team

• General Managers

• Sales leadership

• Commercial Excellence

• Digital Marketing

• Decision Support & Insights finance team

• Product Management

• And more

About the Role

In this opportunity as VP Finance, Legal Professionals, you will:

• Provide strategic decision support including go-to-market design and incentive plan alignment, large deal & partnership negotiation support, pricing and packaging analysis, and operational initiatives to deliver against financial targets

• Responsible for analyzing and developing financial performance narrative combining revenue, expense and actuals/ planning/ forecasting results

• Helps operationalize and measure progress against overall strategy and execution against business plans

• Prepare deliverables and presentation materials related to Strategic plan, Annual Plan, Quarterly Business Reviews, townhalls, commercial meetings etc.)

• Member of Small Law Firm, FindLaw and Mid Law Firm leadership teams, responsible for not only providing financial leadership and direction, but also key voice in developing and executing against long term growth strategy

• Finance leader for customer success transformation, digital strategy in small/mid law, Legal Go-To-Market Operations and Legal Partnership initiatives

• Strong partnership with other Legal Professional Finance Team members, supporting segment-wide special projects and initiatives including acquisition evaluation and due diligence

• Strong communication skills needed in highly collaborative environment. Must be able to influence direction and results across teams, including partners in Sales, Commercial Excellence, Customer Proposition, Product, O&T and Customer Success

• Partner with key finance stakeholders to support the Finance Change Program

About You

You will have demonstrated success in leading finance and delivering profitable growth. You will be highly collaborative while driving for results. You will possess a broad business view and the ability to think through market dynamics, external and internal customer needs, and the overall business strategy. You will be a proven change-agent and will demonstrate a track record of success around leveraging technology solutions and partnering effectively with stakeholders to innovate and drive business outcomes. You're a fit for the role of VP Finance, Legal Professionals if your background includes:

• Deep understanding of revenue and growth drivers, full ownership of P&L and balance sheet dynamics

• Bachelors degree in finance, accounting, business or economics (MBA preferred) or equivalent

• 10+ years of related experience, including supporting sales leadership with diverse channels (inside, field, digital, etc.) familiarity with forecasting, planning and data visualization tools

• Demonstrated success navigating complex organizations and ability to be persuasive with a wide range of diverse audiences

• Strong leadership qualities including effective executive presence / verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated experience in being an agent for change

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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.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following metro locations: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $192,500 - $357,500. The base compensation range in other locations may vary. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

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