Financial Decision Support Lead Analyst

Would you like to join a team that is an integral part of decision making?

Are you eager to use your financial skills to influence stakeholders?

About the Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case.

About the Role

Provide stewardship and expertise for all financial aspects of performance across the Legal News and Intelligize businesses. The role will be responsible for advising and influencing key management decisions through insight and recommending actions. Provide constructive challenge and scenarios for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and interpreting and explaining the drivers for business performance and scenarios on potential outcomes. The position reports directly to the Senior Manager and has frequent interactions with LexisNexis business partners and liaises with other Finance teams to provide financial support and improve business performance.

Responsibilities

• Management reporting: Provide timely, sound and actionable financial recommendations from insights on scenarios of future performance. Interpret, explain and drive financial performance using additional business insight and local knowledge to develop commentaries.

• Strategic and tactical planning, budgeting and forecasting: Plan, Budget, RF1/2/3: Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities based on "what if" scenarios. Provide enhanced insight on revenue and cost drivers based on understanding of competitor activities and local business knowledge. Provide clearly constructed recommendations for actions. Finalize the messaging and content for the budget presentation material.

• Investment: Identify areas of financial performance that merit analytical investigation and request support through the demand management framework. Provide support, review and challenge on investments in technology, acquisitions or product rollouts from development of business cases, through the acquisition lifecycle to reviewing financial performance and outcomes.

• Internal control: Provide insight for the annual audits with support of RPA. Follow internal controls and procedures to comply data integrity and consistency.

• Relations network (internal / external): Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with Business Unit CFO, Senior Director, Business Partners and GRPA.

Requirements

• Possess 5+ years of experience in a financial role (essential) and a deep understanding of P & L metrics and drivers working in a global organization

• Have a Financial Degree or Diploma, MBA or advanced business degree. Excellent knowledge of financial and management accounting, process and systems.

• Demonstrated experience of achieving results in an international environment, with appreciation of differences in culture and legal frameworks

• Experience of delivering a service through a period of significant change

• Knowledge and application of financial technical accounting standards and management accounting techniques

• Robust knowledge and application of financial processes, metrics, drivers and dynamics for area of accountability

• System knowledge: Excel (advanced level), PowerPoint (intermediate) Hyperion, PeopleSoft (or equivalent systems)

• Ideally will have experience in LexisNexis /Industry comparator

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, and study assistance, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $70,200 - $117,100. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer to our US full- and part-time employees working at least 20 hours or more per week:

● Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts● In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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