Senior Director, Decision Support - Law Firms
About The Position
LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Senior Director, Decision Support for its Law Firms business. The role is open to candidates located in Dayton, Ohio, or New York City, New York. Reporting directly to the CFO of LexisNexis United States, the position partners with the business unit management team to provide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and reporting that support effective, data-driven decisions. The role anticipates business needs for data, insights, and analytics and responds proactively to change. As a member of the business management team, the Senior Director provides financial leadership, management, and oversight for assigned segments. The role leads strategic and tactical financial processes, develops recommendations that drive value creation, and oversees forecasting, profitability analysis, reporting, and financial stewardship. It also manages and develops a geographically distributed finance team, supports mergers and acquisitions throughout their lifecycle, builds strong relationships across the business and finance functions, and promotes simplification, automation, and continuous improvement. The position requires 12 or more years of financial-role experience, a financial degree or diploma, MBA, or advanced business degree, and strong knowledge of financial and management accounting, P&L metrics, and financial systems. The candidate should be comfortable communicating with non-finance professionals, influencing stakeholders, working across relationships, and using AI tools including Claude and ChatGPT. The role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
Requirements
- 12 or more years of experience in a financial role, with a 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 the ability to work at all levels up to the business-unit board and to communicate critically and convincingly.
- Commercial awareness and business knowledge.
- Ability to champion change and manage and drive projects.
- Customer focus, results orientation, problem-solving, analytical and structured thinking, 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 responsible segments.
- Lead strategic and tactical financial processes, including reviewing monthly sales revenue and cost reports and explaining trends and variances.
- Prepare 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 a team based in multiple locations; identify and develop talent, provide ongoing training and development, and foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Support the merger and acquisition 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, and support functions.
- Liaise with commercial teams and constructively challenge assumptions during month-end and forecast processes to ensure investments deliver appropriate returns.
- Promote continuous improvement through simplification, automation, and uniformity.
- Provide business-unit stewardship and governance; review and implement management reporting and analytics that deliver timely, forward-looking, actionable information.
- Improve or remove outdated data, metrics, reports, and processes.
- Ensure timely delivery of required information and provide quality commentary on results, opportunities, risks, and action plans.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits through a multi-carrier program.
- 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 insurance.
- 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
