Decision Support Partner

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 (http://www.relx.com), 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. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

About the Role

Provide stewardship and expertise for all financial aspects of the U.S. Corporate Legal market. 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 frequently interacts 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: Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities based on “what if” scenarios. Provide enhanced insight into 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 budget and forecast presentation materials.
• Investment: Support, review, and challenge investments in technology, acquisitions, or product rollouts—from business case development through the acquisition lifecycle to the review of financial performance and outcomes.

• Relations network: Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with Business Unit CFO, Director, and Business Partners.  

Requirements

• Possess 5+ years of experience in a financial role and a deep understanding of P & L metrics and financial 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
• Robust knowledge and application of financial processes, metrics, drivers and dynamics for area of accountability
• System knowledge: Advanced Excel and working knowledge of PowerPoint; experience with Oracle and Hyperion, or comparable accounting and financial planning platforms.

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 well-being initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, 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.  

Management Level

12 - Professional IC

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