Decision Support Lead Analyst

About the Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, serving customers globally, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools. The company specializes in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to enhance productivity and transform business practices.

About the Role

Support the definition, tracking, and interpretation of success metrics for North America and UK capital investments and revenue/sales performance. Ensure consistent, decision-ready insights that inform investment, adoption, and growth strategies. The role involves defining, tracking, and reporting key performance metrics for AI-powered platforms and solutions. It also includes enhancing existing capital reporting capabilities and developing ROI tracking information for capital projects. The position partners with Data Teams, Product Owners, Sales, and Finance to ensure metrics are well-defined, governed, and actionable. The role provides recurring executive reporting and forward-looking analysis to support management decisions throughout the AI transformation lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Management reporting: Provide timely, sound, and actionable financial recommendations from insights on future performance. Interpret 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 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 relationships and maintain regular contact with Business Unit CFOs, Directors, Business Partners, Global Analytics, and Data Teams.

Qualifications

• Possess 7+ 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).
• Experience in LexisNexis/industry comparator preferred.

Benefits

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, and study assistance to help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals.

Pay

Dayton Base Pay Range: $71,500 - $119,100. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

Schedule

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