Senior Director, Decision Support - Law Firms

RELX Inc. Company; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 157,000 - 291,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Benefits

401(k) with match

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Wellbeing & Headspace subscription

Disability & Life Insurance

Family benefits & paid leave

HSA & commuter accounts

Job summary

LexisNexis United States is seeking a Senior Director of Decision Support for Law Firms to partner with the CFO and business units, delivering robust planning, analytics, and strategic insights. You will lead multi-location finance teams, drive cost and revenue analysis, and support mergers and acquisitions while promoting data-driven decision making.

The role emphasizes governance, automation, and proactive stakeholder engagement in a fast-paced environment with competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Have 12+ years of experience in a financial role with P&L metrics and drivers in a global organization.
• Have a Financial Degree or Diploma, MBA, or advanced business degree.
• Well versed with AI tools such as Claude and ChatGpt
• Have excellent knowledge of financial and management accounting, processes, and systems.
• Be a team player with the ability to manage through influence and multiple relationships.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Oracle Fusion, Dodeca, and Peoplesoft.
• Have the ability to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.
• Have a good understanding of accounting principles and concepts.
• Be able to communicate daily with non-finance professionals and handle potentially emotive topics.

Responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and reporting.
• Lead monthly sales revenue and cost reports with insights into trends and variances.
• Provide customer and product profitability analysis and strategic recommendations.
• Develop revenue, direct cost, and labor driver assumptions; own forecasting cycles.
• Provide governance and stewardship of the business unit with timely, actionable data.
• Lead and develop a distributed finance team across locations.
• Partner with BU CFO and stakeholders to ensure investments deliver returns.
• Drive continuous improvement through automation and standardization.
• Support M&A activities from upfront modeling to post-merger integration.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

P&L management

AI tooling awareness

Excel

Oracle Fusion

Dodeca

People management

Education

MBA or advanced business degree

Financial degree or diploma

Tools

Claude / ChatGPT

Job description

Senior Director, Decision Support - Law Firms – Lexis Nexis United States

Open to candidates located in Dayton, OH or New York City, NY.

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with over 11,800 employees worldwide and is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. A long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market, LexisNexis is pioneering ethical, powerful generative AI solutions at the intersection of law, data, and technology. As the company accelerates into an AI-first future, securing our platforms, data, and people has never been more critical.

About the Role

This role is a proactive business partner responsible for providing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and reporting to support effective business decision-making. The position requires responsiveness to change, proactively anticipating data, insights, and analytics to help the business make data-driven decisions. Reporting directly to the CFO of LexisNexis United States, this role works closely with the business unit management team and receives support from other functional finance teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Management Team Member: Serve as a key member of the business management team, providing leadership, management and financial oversight for the responsible segments.
• Financial Processes: Lead all financial processes, both strategic and tactical. This includes reviewing monthly sales revenue and cost reports with insights into trends and variances and preparing customer and product profitability analysis. Additionally, advise the business unit on strategic direction, drive value creation by providing clear recommendations for action, and develop revenue, direct cost, and labor driver assumptions and has overall responsibility for the forecasting cycles. Ensure supported segments and solutions understand the key drivers of their financial performance.
• Nurturing and developing talent: The role requires managing a team based in multiple locations. As a senior member of the finance team, the individual is expected to proactively identify and develop talent, provide ongoing training and development opportunities, and foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment to ensure the growth and success of all team members.
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Support the lifecycle of mergers and acquisitions, from upfront acquisition models and due diligence (with support from a pool of expertise) to post-merger integration projects.
• Relations Network: Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with the Business Unit CFO, Senior Director/Director, Business Partners, and other support functions. Proactively liaise with commercial teams, constructively challenging assumptions during month-end and forecast processes to ensure investments deliver appropriate returns.
• Continuous Improvement: Embrace a culture of continuous improvement, seeking simplification, automation, and uniformity.
• Internal Control: Provide strong stewardship and governance of the business unit. Review and implement management reporting and analytics to deliver timely, forward-looking, actionable data that supports effective decision-making. Improve or remove outdated data, metrics, reports, and processes.
• Timely Delivery: Own and ensure the timely delivery of required information. Provide quality commentary, including insights into results and action plans to capitalize on opportunities or mitigate risks.

Experience and Qualifications

• Have 12+ years of experience in a financial role, with a deep understanding of P&L metrics and drivers in a global organization.
• Have a Financial Degree or Diploma, MBA, or advanced business degree.
• Well versed with AI tools such as Claude and ChatGpt
• Have excellent knowledge of financial and management accounting, processes, and systems.
• Be a team player with the ability to manage through influence and multiple relationships.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Excel, Oracle Fusion, Dodeca, and Peoplesoft.
• Have the ability to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.
• Have a good understanding of accounting principles and concepts.
• Be able to communicate daily with non-finance professionals and handle potentially emotive topics.

Leadership Competencies

• Personal Drive: Technical and professional expertise, self-development, ability to work in a culturally diverse environment, intellectual curiosity.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communication skills, collaboration and teamwork, leadership ability, ability to work at all levels up to BU Board, critical and convincing.
• Strategist: Commercial awareness and business knowledge.
• Drive Change: Champion change, ability to manage and drive projects.
• Results-Oriented: Customer-focused, drives for results, problem solver, analytical and structured, ability to work to tight deadlines, planning and organizing skills, high level of resilience.

Working for You

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career.

• 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.

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. 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 to access benefits specific to your location.

Compensation

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $156,700 - $290,900. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in New York City, the base pay range is $188,000 - $349,000. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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About RELX

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.