Commercial Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - LexisNexis UK

    LexisNexis UK
    LexisNexis UK London, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    LexisNexis UK

    For over 200 years, LexisNexis has combined a deep understanding of the legal and tax profession with technology innovation to help practitioners work more productively, advise with confidence, and better manage their organisations in a changing legal environment. It is part of the RELX group, the FTSE 100 global professional information solutions provider. LexisNexis helps customers achieve their goals in more than 100 countries with over 15,000 employees.

    Purpose of the role

    • financial ownership of various cost, revenue, and profit centres.
    • maintenance of various financial systems & processes.
    • in sales performance reporting and forecasting.
    • in calculation and processing of commission payments.
    • financial support across LexisNexis UK.

    Key result areas

    Ownership of cost & profit centres

    • monthly variance analysis and ensure any issues are understood by finance and business partners.
    • quarterly forecasts.
    • identify any highlight any risks or opportunities.
    • transactions are coded and accounted for correctly.
    • monthly reports and ensure understood by business partners.

    Support maintenance of various financial systems & processes

    • of various finance systems
    • process, and validate system maintenance changes including budget restatements, creation of new cost centres, mapping of products etc.

    Commissions

    • with the calculation and processing of commission payments
    • and disseminate insightful analysis of commissionable sales performance, highlighting significant variances to target and any commercial issues
    • to formulate bottom-up annual sales targets, aligned to the delivery of budgeted revenue

    Sales Reporting

    • with sales reporting, highlighting any risks and opportunities based on performance and pipeline
    • with pack production for sales performance reviews

    Ad-hoc

    Ad-hoc financial support across LexisNexis

    Key skills and experience

    • to degree standard, achieving a 2:1 or above.
    • desire to pursue accounting qualification (ACCA or similar).
    • to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.
    • and applies a good understanding of principles and concepts in own specialist area.
    • team player.