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Peter Lawson

Nottingham

Summary

A proven leader of change with extensive experience in process implementation and improvement, effective business management, and technical project leadership. Advocate of early careers, diversity and inclusion and career development. Passionate about driving simplification and meaningful change.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Operations Manager

London Stock Exchange Group
Nottingham
01.2023 - Current
  • Ownership of monthly reporting and governance requirements, including financial health, vendor performance and portfolio presentations.
  • Responsibility for a team of c. 25 contingent workers supporting a portfolio of work with a budget of $10m+.
  • Created PowerBI dashboards to replace existing manual reports, saving significant time for project teams and an enhanced stakeholder experience.
  • Implemented new workflows to improve core processes, resulting in faster resource onboarding and improved time to productivity.
  • Directly led a small team of permanent staff to ensure all objectives were met.
  • Ownership of vendor relationships, acting as a single contact for all partners.

Business Manager

London Stock Exchange Group
Nottingham
02.2022 - 01.2023

Achieved considerable improvements to business reporting and data quality, which enabled intelligent, data-driven decision making across the division. Implemented business processes and enhanced ways of working to improve cost management, resource management and demand management.


  • Delivered improved reporting on Corporate Technology's c.£30m IT costs.
  • Implemented monthly business reviews, bringing transparency on spend against budgets and improved the accuracy of future cost forecasts.
  • Created a process library to up-skill staff and bring transparency to previously opaque operating models, processes and ways of working.
  • Led employee onboarding and management across multiple teams.
  • Supported Corporate Technology's D&I initiatives.

Project Manager

London Stock Exchange Group
Nottingham
09.2017 - 01.2022

Gained experience in various areas of the technology division whilst leading and delivering a range of projects including infrastructure migration, systems integration, systems decommissioning, organisational design, client roll-outs and cross-business capabilities.


  • Delivered a £40m, multi-year program ahead of schedule with no client impact. The project migrated c.175 real-time venues from legacy infrastructure to the strategic real-time platform, including blue chip clients.
  • Partnered with multiple LSEG divisions to design and deliver their target state organisational design post-LSEG/Refinitiv merger.
  • Successfully led the decommissioning of legacy platforms as part of a post-acquisition data centre migration program, resulting in significant cost synergies.
  • Led multiple workstreams as part of the LSEG Workspace roll-out to UBS.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
/2013 - /2017

Skills

  • Project management
  • Business management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Vendor management
  • Process improvement
  • Business transformation
  • Financial management
  • Performance management

Affiliations

  • Reading
  • Golf
  • Running

Certification

  • TOGAF Certification (credential ID 171987)

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Operations Manager

London Stock Exchange Group
01.2023 - Current

Business Manager

London Stock Exchange Group
02.2022 - 01.2023

Project Manager

London Stock Exchange Group
09.2017 - 01.2022

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Nottingham Trent University
/2013 - /2017
Peter Lawson