Decision Support Sr Analyst

RELX Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global provider of legal and regulatory intelligence is seeking a finance professional in London to partner with senior leadership. The successful candidate will play a key role in strategic decision-making, improve analytical reporting, and ensure timely results. This position requires strong communication skills, advanced knowledge of Excel, and an accounting background. Benefits include a generous holiday allowance, health screening, and access to extensive learning resources.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Access to extensive learning and development resources

Qualifications

• Educated to degree standard, achieving a 2:1 or above.
• Holds accounting qualification or is a finalist.
• Experience working in a commercial area of finance is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted partner to Senior Leadership Team members.
• Play a role in strategic and tactical planning.
• Improve management analytics to support decision making.
• Drive efficiencies within finance by leveraging automation.

Skills

Strong team player

Ability to communicate with non-finance professionals

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Education

Degree (2:1 or above)

Accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or similar)

Job description

Overview

Part of the UK Decision Support team, business partnering with Global Functions, Legal content and other overhead functions, playing a key role in strategic and tactical planning for the areas of the business supported. Working closely alongside senior stakeholders including CFO, MD and other members of the Senior Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted partner to members of the Senior Leadership Team & individuals within the areas of the business supported.
• Play a key role in strategic and tactical planning, identifying risks & opportunities.
• Improve management information and analytics to deliver timely, forward-looking, actionable data to support effective decision making.
• Hold stakeholders to account for performance and apply the right level of challenge to decisions.
• Innovate and implement appropriate metrics to measure effectiveness in the areas of business supported & optimize costs.
• Drive efficiencies within finance by keeping back-office systems and processes under constant review and driving automation, leveraging AI where appropriate.
• Preparation, and review, of key monthly reports to ensure timely and accurate reporting of performance and summarize impact on P&L, including outlook risks and opportunities.
• Lead performance reviews from a finance perspective, and ensure stakeholders are well prepared.
• Provide timely, robust, and actionable analysis of results as well as forecasts on how those results may impact full year future performance.
• Take advantage of various sources of data. Develop & prepare metrics reporting aligned to business priorities.
• Ensure timely delivery of month-end results to various stakeholders with insightful analysis.
• Co‑ordinate with Financial Accounts to help ensure timely and accurate reporting.
• Own quarterly forecasting process for areas supported, working closely alongside both finance and business stakeholders.
• Deliver quarterly forecast to timetable covering sales, revenue, and costs.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree standard, achieving a 2:1 or above.
• Holds accounting qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA or similar), or finalist.
• Experience working in a commercial area of finance desirable.
• Ability to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.
• Possesses and applies a good understanding of principles and concepts in own specialist area.
• Strong team player.
• Ability to communicate daily with non‑finance professionals and demonstrate ability to deal with potentially emotive topics.
• Display high degree of discretion and confidentiality.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel desirable.

Key Competencies

• Decision making – Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions.
• Creating a service reputation – crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers and LN needs, using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques.
• Continuous improvement – originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas, and implementing solutions.
• Contributing to team success – actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals.
• Technical/professional knowledge and skills – having achieved a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position‑related areas, keep up with current developments and trends in areas of expertise.
• Financial acumen – utilising financial data to diagnose business strengths and weaknesses and identify the implications for potential strategies, keeping a financial perspective in the forefront when recommending courses of action.
• Communication – clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others' thoughts and actions; engaging the audience to help them understand and retain the message.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

Company background

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a leading global provider of legal and regulatory intelligence. We give organisations the business information and analytics they need to make better, more impactful decisions. We are building powerful new decision tools that use machine learning, natural language processing, visualisation and artificial intelligence that aid and enhance decision making. 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.