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Are you interested in an alternative legal career that combines legal expertise, training and sales?

Do you enjoy providing education and support to legal professionals?

About our Team

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

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 Business Unit CFO, this role works closely with the business unit management team and receives support from other functional finance teams.

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.

Requirements:

+ Have 10+ 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.

+ 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 proficienct 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.

Work in a way that works for you

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

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.

Primary Location Base Pay Range: Home based-Ohio $110,200 - $204,700.

Base Pay Range for CO is $116,000 - $215,500. Base Pay Range for IL is $121,800 - $226,400. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $127,600 - $237,100. Base Pay Range for MD is $121,800 - $226,400. Base Pay Range for NY is $127,600 - $237,100. Base Pay Range for New York City is $133,300 - $247,900. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $110,200 - $204,700. Base Pay Range for OH is $110,200 - $204,700.

This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

Application deadline is 10/30/2025.

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• 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

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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.