Sr. Financial Planning Analyst

at  RELX

The key responsibilities for this role include providing and interpreting financial information for Indirect Cost, supporting the Business Decision Support (BDS) organisation in analysing and monitoring trends and advising their internal business customers accordingly.
Reporting to a Operations/Finance Manager, this role is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) within either the Indirect Cost CoE on key financial systems and models, which include: Hyperion PBF planning tool, Hyperion Workforce planning tool, Sales data warehouse (Oracle/OBIEE) or any other tool that we functionally own within FP&A and Reporting. In this role you will be asked to validate and interpret actuals, prepare and explain forecast and budget data and have the ability to provide commentaries and insight. You will be responsible for delivering the reporting and analysis as part of the various reporting cycles, including Month-End close, budget and reforcasting. This is done in close collaboration with the FD and BC’s of the Business Decision Support (BDS) teams. As part of our continuous improvement cycle you drive improvements through projects.

Key Responsiblities of the job include:

• Management reporting for actuals and budgets/forecasts, including variance analysis and commentaries
• Responsible for development and optimizing the financial reporting tools supporting BDS and the Elsevier business
• CoE liaison person for Finance projects within Elsevier delivering process improvements within Finance and Non Finance

community

• Helping ensure that senior management’s priority information requirements are delivered and “operationalized” on a timely basis

You will be required to independently carry out your responsibilities, have well developed analytical skills, be a self-starter and a quick learner and have a can-do mentality in a complex and demanding environment. You are curious by nature and have a strive for continuous improvement, willing to lead change. You have strong verbal and written communication skills. Seek and implement continuous improvements in efficiency, effectiveness and quality of service for systems under control. Development and management of GRPA ELS COE Indirect Cost team.
Business support activities and projects
Global functional reporting lines stay the same (Manila-based team members continue working with non-Manila based members in the same way as before), you are not expected to understand the content of the work of everyone officially reporting to you. Global functional leads (regardless of geographical location) would still be the ones responsible for the performance quality.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related area.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in financial reporting, planning, and analysis (revenue, cost, expense); with actual experience in budgeting and providing commentaries
• Strong analytical skills, a self-starter with “can do” mentality; quick learner in a complex and demanding environment.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of financial and management accounting, process and systems.
• Affinity with large and complex international working environment; ability to travel occasionally.
• Commercial and organizational awareness, ideally in a comparable industry.
• Good communication skills.

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