Remote Mortgage Underwriter: Flexible, Impactful Decisions

Placements24; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is hiring a Decision Support Analyst to join our Finance team. You will analyze performance, build budgets and forecasts, and troubleshoot data across multiple systems to provide decision-grade insights. The role emphasizes accuracy, dashboards, and actionable outputs in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has 2-5 years' experience in analytics or finance, strong Excel skills, and proven ability to handle large, complex datasets with attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field
• 2-5 years of experience in analytics, finance, or a related role
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, basic modeling)
• Demonstrated ability to work with large, messy, or incomplete datasets
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Solid communication skills with the ability to explain analysis clearly
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to challenge data and assumptions
• Persistence in solving problems when answers are not immediately clear

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to analyze business performance
• Build and maintain components of budgeting, forecasting, and financial models
• Analyze, validate, and troubleshoot financial and operational data across multiple systems and data sources
• Investigate and resolve data discrepancies, identifying root causes and implementing fixes
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and performance metrics with a focus on accuracy and usability
• Perform variance and root cause analysis to explain drivers of performance
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches
• Deliver clear, actionable insights informing business decisions
• Work with stakeholders to improve data quality, reporting processes, and automation

Skills

Advanced Excel

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Pivot tables

Lookups

Job description

United Kingdom South Africa Full time R Want to grow your career in a fast-paced environment where your financial analysis has real impact? Do you thrive on solving problems and figuring out why something doesn't add up?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, 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.

As part of the finance team supporting LexisNexis Global Operations, you'll be joining a company that values curiosity, innovation, and a proactive approach to solving complex business challenges. Global Operations supports regions in North America, UK, CEMEA, Asia and Pacific with over 2,300 employees globally.

About the Role

We are hiring a Decision Support Analyst to join our Finance team. This role is designed for professionals with 2-5 years' experience who want to develop strong analytical, problem-solving, and data troubleshooting capabilities in a fast-paced business environment.

In this role you will work with real, imperfect data and be expected to analyze, validate, and troubleshoot information to generate reliable, decision-grade insights. You will partner with finance and business stakeholders to understand performance, identify issues, and support better commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to analyze business performance and support decision-making
• Build and maintain components of budgeting, forecasting, and financial models
• Analyze, validate, and troubleshoot financial and operational data across multiple systems and data sources
• Investigate and resolve data discrepancies, identifying root causes and implementing fixes
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and performance metrics with a focus on accuracy and usability
• Perform variance and root cause analysis to explain drivers of performance
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches
• Deliver clear, actionable insights (not just reports) that inform business decisions
• Work with stakeholders to improve data quality, reporting processes, and automation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
• 2-5 years of experience in analytics, finance, or a related role
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, basic modeling)
• Demonstrated ability to work with large, messy, or incomplete datasets
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Solid communication skills with the ability to explain analysis clearly
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to challenge data and assumptions
• Persistence in solving problems when answers are not immediately clear

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 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.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process.

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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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.