Decision Support Senior Analyst

RELX • Dayton, OH

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About The Position

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with over 11,000 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.
Provide stewardship and expertise for all financial aspects of the CounselLink product. The role will be responsible for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, interpreting performance and ensuring this is well understood, identifying risks & opportunities, and influencing key management decisions with a data-lead approach. The position reports directly to the Finance Decision Support Director and has frequent interactions with senior stakeholders and the wider finance team.

Requirements

• Possess 3+ years of experience in a financial role (essential) and a deep understanding of sales performance and P&L metrics in a large 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.
• 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 or subscription-based b2b organization.

Responsibilities

• Management reporting: Provide timely results. Provide sound and actionable data. Interpret, explain and drive financial performance using additional business insight and local knowledge to develop commentaries.
• Strategic and tactical planning, budgeting and forecasting: Own forecasting process (Budget, RF2, RF3) using appropriate planning assumptions and produce “what if” scenarios to highlight risk and opportunity. Provide enhanced insight into revenue and cost drivers based on understanding of competitor activities and business knowledge. Provide clearly constructed recommendations for actions. Finalize the messaging and content for the budget presentation material.
• Investment: Provide support, review and challenge on investments in technology, potential 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.
• Follow internal controls and procedures to comply data integrity and consistency.
• Relations network (internal / external): Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with all stakeholders.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level