FPRandA II

Job Summary

The FRP&A Analyst plays a key role in supporting the organization’s financial health and strategic direction. This position is responsible for preparing accurate financial reports, developing forecasts and budgets, and providing insightful analysis to guide business decisions. The analyst collaborates with cross-functional teams to understand performance drivers, identify risks and opportunities, and deliver actionable recommendations to senior leadership.

As a member of the Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis team, the role will be responsible for providing financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting of FTE, Labour, and Profit and Loss accounts for Risk business units.

Reporting to the Business Controller, this role will support the Risk Finance teams by maintaining and developing dashboards and ad-hoc reporting using Risks Financial Tools such as Oracle Fusion, Dodeca, PowerBI, and Smartview. You will assist the Business Controller in current practices and monthly, quarterly and yearly deliverables and develop tools to improve and standardize reporting, analysis and insights of the Risk Business.

This role will assist in ad-hoc projects and queries and help other Analysts and Business Controllers with their day-to-day operational responsibilities (e.g. due to absence, and/or other Risk/RELX wide project(s) putting demand on the finance resource pool in the FRP&A team). In this role you will be required to have well developed analytical skills, be a self-starter, possess a can do mentality, and be a quick learner in a complex and demanding environment.

Key Result Areas

Management reporting

• Run specific queries in FinRep and/or Dodeca for management reporting.
• Provide wide range of analysis and support for other key stakeholders and resolve finance enquires independently and raise issues timely.
• Respond to ad-hoc requests for analysis and insights into financial information.
  
  

• Plan, Budget, RF1/2/3 and Pre-Budget: support Risk and Data Services teams with regular forecasting cycles, prepare account analysis and other reports.
• Review and provide insights and initial commentary on variance analysis on actual/budget/forecast.
• Maintain data integrity in the Planning tool as compared to Oracle Fusion.
  
  

• Calculate and prepare the FTE and Labour reporting.
• Calculate and prepare the Direct and Indirect expenses.
  
  

• Provide financial inputs for business case and populate standard templates.
• Provide inputs for analysis of strategic/operational initiatives.
  
  

• Establish and execute internal control policies relating to finance: collate proof of controls executed/compliance.
• Prepare for and support the annual audits. Gather and submit the required information.
• Ensure solid internal control environment across area of responsibility. Assist with internal control reviews.
• Follow internal controls and procedures to comply data integrity and consistency.
  
  

• Establish and execute internal control policies relating to finance: collate proof of controls executed/compliance.
• Prepare for and support the annual audits. Gather and submit the required information.
• Ensure solid internal control environment across area of responsibility. Assist with internal control reviews.
• Follow internal controls and procedures to comply data integrity and consistency.
  
  

• Bachelors 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.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives