Commercial Lead Financial Analyst

About the role

Provide stewardship, expertise, and governance over business metrics supporting North America and UK capital investments and revenue and sales performance for North America’s AI migration / transformation.

Support the definition, tracking, and interpretation of success metrics supporting our capital plan, ensuring consistent, decision-ready insights that inform investment, adoption, and growth strategies.

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 sales 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.
• Workflow transformation: Partner with central AI Enablement team to identify and implement automation opportunities across finance workflows. Evaluate existing processes to uncover efficiency gains and prioritize and track transformation initiatives.
• 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 Unit CFO, Directors, Business Partners, Global Analytics, and Data Teams.

Qualifications

• Possess 4+ 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
• Familiarity with current AI tools and a 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), PowerPoint (intermediate), Hyperion, PeopleSoft (or equivalent systems)

Benefits

LexisNexis Legal & Professional offers numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, and study assistance to help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Pay

Base Pay Range: $71,500 - $119,100. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Schedule

This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.