About the Role
This role partners closely with the SVP Editorial Operations and senior leadership to support one of the organization’s most strategically important global functions. You will provide financial leadership across a complex, international cost base while supporting transformation as AI‑enabled technologies reshape editorial content creation. The role offers meaningful scope to influence strategy, investment decisions, and long‑term value creation.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary Finance Business Partner to the SVP Editorial Operations and Editorial Operations leadership team, providing strategic financial insight, challenge, and decision support
- Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long‑range planning processes across a global cost base exceeding $100 million
- Deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting and performance analysis for senior management and executive stakeholders
- Partner with operational leaders to drive transformation, productivity, AI‑enabled optimization, and cost‑efficiency initiatives
- Support strategic investment decisions through scenario modelling, business cases, and forward‑looking financial analysis
- Develop insight into operational and cost drivers, linking financial, productivity, and workflow metrics to business outcomes
- Leverage data, automation, AI, and advanced analytics to improve forecasting accuracy, transparency, and decision support
- Act as a trusted advisor and change agent within Editorial Operations and the broader Global Operations organization
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in senior finance or commercial roles within complex, global organizations
- Strong capability in financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and commercial financial analysis
- Solid understanding of finance, accounting principles, governance, and risk management
- Confidence engaging and influencing senior and executive stakeholders with clear, evidence‑based insight
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations
- Ability to connect financial performance with operational metrics, productivity drivers, and business outcomes
- Experience working in international environments, with awareness of cultural and regulatory differences
- Practical interest or experience in applying AI, automation, or advanced analytics within finance or operational settings
Skills
- AI
- Automation
- Advanced analytics
Work Type
- Flexible hours
Benefits
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance
- Sabbaticals
About the Company
- 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).
- 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 an
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.
