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RELX INC Decision Support Senior Analyst in Dayton, Ohio
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 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.
About the Role
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.
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.
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.
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.
Management Level
10 - Professional IC
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $65,100 - $108,500. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.
If performed in Ohio, the base pay range is $61,800 - $103,100.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here (https://www.relx.com/careers/join-us/benefits) to access benefits specific to your location.
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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.
Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.