Commercial Finance AnalystDo you enjoy using a data-driven approach to uncover information and insights?Would you like to be part of a team that innovates using technology?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,300 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.About the Role

Join us as a Financial Analyst to oversee cost, revenue, and profit centers, while maintaining financial systems and processes. You'll support sales reporting, forecasting, and commission payments, providing ad-hoc financial assistance across LexisNexis UK.

Responsibilities

• Performing monthly variance analysis and ensure any issues are understood by finance and business partners.

• Calculating, processing, and validating system maintenance changes including budget restatements, creation of new cost centers, mapping of products etc

• Assisting with the calculation and processing of commission payments

• Creating and disseminating insightful analysis of commissionable sales performance, highlighting significant variances to target and any commercial issues

• Assisting with sales reporting, highlighting any risks and opportunities based on performance and pipeline

• Helping to formulate the development of annual sales targets to ensure we meet our revenue objectives

Requirements

• Demonstrate education to degree standard, achieving a 2:1 or above.

• Demonstrate desire to pursue accounting qualification (ACCA or similar)

• Show experience to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.

• Display high degree of discretion and confidentiality

• Have the ability to utilize financial data to diagnose business strengths, weaknesses and identify potential strategies

• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences

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

Working for you

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:

• 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

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.

LexisNexis, a division of RELX Group, is 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. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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RELX is a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.

We help scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and insurance companies offer customers lower prices. We save taxpayers and consumers money by preventing fraud and help executives forge commercial relationships with their clients.

In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.