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Join Our Financial Team

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?

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 certain LNNA sub product lines (including Create+, CourtLink, and others) as well as expense support for the Global Product Organization. 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. This role will also assist in the creation of new capital reporting, leveraging AI and internal assets to deliver insights into capital spend to the business. The position reports directly to the Decision Support 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 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: Assist in building capital reporting to help manage spend on approved initiatives and assure that funded investments are progressing through development.

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

Relations network (internal / external): Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with business partners such as Product Leaders, Finance Management, and other functional groups like Accounting and the Global Product Org.

Qualifications:

• 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.
• Natural curiosity for AI powered learning and willingness to challenge existing processes to develop efficiencies and provide deeper insights.
• 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), SQL Query writing (intermediate), PowerPoint (intermediate), Hyperion, PeopleSoft (or equivalent systems).
• Ideally will have experience in LexisNexis /Industry comparator.

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.

Management Level

10 - Professional IC

Dayton Base Pay Range: $65,000 - $108,300. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.