Chief Financial Officer

RELX; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 6,000,000 - 10,000,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of RELX, seeks a commercially minded Chief Financial Officer to join the South Africa leadership team in Sandton. You will partner with the Managing Director to steer strategy, deliver financial insight, and drive sustainable growth across the SA business.

You will lead planning, forecasting and performance management, translating data into actionable guidance for executives, while building a high-performing finance team and ensuring strong governance and

Qualifications

• Strong financial judgement and ability to influence strategy and performance.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership teams.
• Strong planning, forecasting and performance management capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex financial data into clear business insights and actions.
• Commercial acumen with experience evaluating growth, profitability, investments and resource allocation.
• Leadership, coaching and team development skills.
• Excellent communication with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Experience in a controlled governance environment with accountability for financial integrity and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted strategic and commercial partner to the Managing Director and SA leadership team.
• Contribute to development and execution of the SA business strategy and long-term priorities.
• Lead financial planning, forecasting and performance management for the SA business.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actions for leadership.
• Identify drivers of revenue, margin, cost and cash and work with leaders to address risks and opportunities.
• Lead and coach the SA finance team with strong commercial and analytical capabilities.
• Ensure financial controls, governance and risk-management processes are maintained in line with corporate requirements.
• Champion use of data, technology and AI to improve finance effectiveness and decision-making.

Skills

Strategic finance

Commercial partnering

Financial planning & forecasting

Data to insight

Commercial acumen

Leadership & coaching

Communication

Governance & risk

Job description

Are you a commercially minded finance leader who can translate financial insight into strategic business impact? Do you thrive in partnering with senior leaders to shape business performance, drive growth, and influence key decisions?

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

About The Role

As a Chief Financial Officer, you will serve as a strategic and commercial partner to the South Africa leadership team, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to support business growth and performance. The role combines financial stewardship, business partnership, and leadership responsibilities, helping to drive decision-making, identify opportunities, and deliver sustainable business outcomes across the South Africa business.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted strategic and commercial partner to the Managing Director and South Africa leadership team.
• Contribute actively to the development and execution of the South Africa business strategy and long-term priorities.
• Lead the financial planning, forecasting and performance-management processes for the South Africa business.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear insights and actions for the Managing Director and leadership team.
• Identify the underlying drivers of revenue, margin, cost and cash performance and work with business leaders to address risks and opportunities.
• Lead, develop and coach the South Africa finance team, building strong commercial, analytical and business-partnering capability.
• Ensure appropriate financial controls, governance and risk-management processes are maintained in accordance with LexisNexis and RELX requirements.
• Champion the use of data, technology and AI to improve Finance effectiveness, business insight and decision-making.

Requirements

• Strong financial judgement with the ability to influence business strategy and performance.
• Experience acting as a strategic and commercial business partner to senior leadership teams.
• Strong financial planning, forecasting and performance management capabilities.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear business insights and actions.
• Demonstrated commercial acumen with experience evaluating growth, profitability, investment and resource-allocation opportunities.
• Strong leadership, coaching and team development skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage finance and non-finance stakeholders effectively.
• Experience working within a controlled governance environment with accountability for financial integrity, risk management and compliance.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

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.

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