Senior Director, Decision Support – Corporate Markets
About The Position
The Senior Director, Decision Support is a proactive finance business partner who provides financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and reporting to support effective business decisions across corporate markets. Reporting directly to the CFO of LexisNexis United States, the role works closely with the business unit management team and other functional finance teams. It provides financial leadership and oversight for responsible business segments, translating financial information into actionable insights and recommendations that support growth, investment, profitability, and business transformation. The role leads strategic and tactical financial processes, including forecasting cycles, performance analysis, and customer and product profitability analysis. It also supports mergers and acquisitions from acquisition modeling and due diligence through post-merger integration. The position manages and develops a geographically distributed finance team, strengthens business relationships and governance, and drives continuous improvement through simplification, automation, and more effective reporting and analytics.
Requirements
- 12 or more years of experience in a financial role.
- Deep understanding of P&L metrics and drivers in a global organization.
- Financial degree or diploma, MBA, or advanced business degree.
- Well versed in AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT.
- Excellent knowledge of financial and management accounting, processes, and systems.
- Ability to work as a team player, manage through influence, and handle multiple relationships.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Oracle Fusion, Dodeca, and PeopleSoft.
- Ability to operate in a specialist area and use knowledge to deliver results.
- Good understanding of accounting principles and concepts.
- Ability to communicate daily with non-finance professionals and handle potentially emotive topics.
- Technical and professional expertise, self-development, intellectual curiosity, and ability to work in a culturally diverse environment.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, teamwork, and leadership skills, including ability to work with stakeholders at all levels up to the business unit board.
- Critical thinking and persuasive communication skills.
- Commercial awareness and business knowledge.
- Ability to champion change and manage and drive projects.
- Customer focus, results orientation, problem-solving, analytical and structured approach, ability to meet tight deadlines, planning and organizing skills, and resilience.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key member of the business management team, providing leadership, management, and financial oversight for assigned segments.
- Lead strategic and tactical financial processes, including reviewing monthly sales revenue and cost reports, analyzing trends and variances, and preparing customer and product profitability analyses.
- Advise the business unit on strategic direction and provide clear recommendations to drive value creation and action.
- Develop revenue, direct cost, and labor driver assumptions and take overall responsibility for forecasting cycles.
- Ensure supported segments and solutions understand the key drivers of their financial performance.
- Manage, identify, and develop team talent; provide ongoing training and development opportunities; and foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Support mergers and acquisitions throughout the lifecycle, including acquisition models, due diligence, and post-merger integration projects.
- Build and maintain relationships with the Business Unit CFO, senior directors and directors, business partners, commercial teams, and other support functions.
- Constructively challenge assumptions during month-end and forecast processes to help ensure investments deliver appropriate returns.
- Promote continuous improvement, simplification, automation, and uniformity.
- Provide stewardship and governance for the business unit; implement management reporting and analytics that deliver timely, forward-looking, actionable information.
- Improve or remove outdated data, metrics, reports, and processes.
- Own timely delivery of required information and provide quality commentary on results, including action plans to capitalize on opportunities or mitigate risks.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- 401(k) with match.
- Employee Share Purchase Plan.
- Wellness platform with incentives.
- Headspace app subscription.
- Employee Assistance and time-off programs.
- Short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Life and accidental death insurance.
- Critical illness and hospital indemnity coverage.
- Family benefits, including bonding and family care leaves.
- Adoption and surrogacy benefits.
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care, and Commuter Spending Accounts.
- Annual paid time off.
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and volunteer with a charity of choice.
- Annual incentive bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
