Commercial Lead Financial Analyst

Would you like to join a team that is an integral part of decision making? Are you eager to use your financial skills to influence stakeholders?

Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide. It is part of RELX, a global provider of information‑based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

The role provides stewardship, expertise, and governance over business metrics supporting North America and UK capital investments and revenue and sales performance for North America’s AI migration / transformation. It supports the definition, tracking, and interpretation of success metrics, ensuring consistent, decision‑ready insights that inform investment, adoption, and growth strategies.

This position is accountable for defining, tracking, and reporting key performance metrics for AI‑powered platforms and solutions offered by Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional. These metrics support executive decision‑making related to capital investment, product adoption, usage, and revenue growth.

The role partners closely with Data Teams, Product Owners, Sales, and Finance to ensure metrics are well‑defined, governed, and translated into actionable insight. It provides recurring executive reporting and forward‑looking analysis to support management decisions across the AI transformation lifecycle.

Additionally, the role will drive enhancement of existing capital reporting capabilities leveraging internal reporting tools and AI/automation tools, lead the development and implementation of ROI tracking information for capital projects, and work with the internal AI Enablement team to identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to enhance efficiency and generate valuable insights.

• Provide timely, sound, and actionable financial recommendations from insights on scenarios of future performance.
• Interpret, explain, and drive financial performance using additional business insight and local knowledge to develop commentaries.
• Plan, budget, and forecast; advise on key business planning assumptions, trade‑offs, and opportunities based on “what if” scenarios.
• Provide enhanced insight on revenue and sales drivers based on understanding of competitor activities and local business knowledge.
• Provide clearly constructed recommendations for actions and finalize messaging and content for budget presentation material.
• Identify areas of financial performance that merit analytical investigation and request support through the demand management framework.
• Support, review, and challenge investments in technology, acquisitions, or product rollouts from the development of business cases through the acquisition lifecycle to reviewing financial performance and outcomes.
• Partner with central AI Enablement team to identify and implement automation opportunities across finance workflows; evaluate existing processes to uncover efficiency gains and prioritize and track transformation initiatives.
• Provide insight for the annual audits with the support of accounting; follow internal controls and procedures to comply with data integrity and consistency.
• Develop excellent relations and maintain regular contact with Business Unit CFO, Directors, Business Partners, Global Analytics, and Data Teams.

• 4+ years of experience in a financial role (essential) and a deep understanding of P&L metrics and drivers in a global organization.
• Financial degree or diploma, MBA or advanced business degree.
• Excellent knowledge of financial and management accounting, processes, and systems.
• Demonstrated experience of achieving results in an international environment with appreciation of cultural and legal differences.
• Experience of delivering a service through a period of significant change.
• Familiarity with current AI tools and a natural curiosity for AI‑powered learning; willingness to challenge existing processes to develop efficiencies and provide deeper insights.
• Knowledge and application of financial technical accounting standards and management accounting techniques.
• Robust knowledge and application of financial processes, metrics,…