Hybrid Senior Decision Support Analyst

at LexisNexis

• Job title: Senior Decision Support Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $70,200 - $117,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Raleigh, United States

About the role

• Financial Analyst providing expertise for U.S. Corporate Legal market decisions and influencing management. Analyzing performance, budgeting, forecasting, and financial insights for improved outcomes.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs and opportunities based on “what if” scenarios.
• Provide enhanced insight on revenue and cost drivers based on understanding of competitor activities and local business knowledge.
• Finalize the messaging and content for the budget presentation material.
• 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.
• Provide insight for the annual audits with support of GRPA.
• Follow internal controls and procedures to comply data integrity and consistency.
• Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with Business Unit CFO, Director, Business Partners and GRPA.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience of delivering a service through a period of significant change.
• 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.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice