RELX India | Finance Business Partner for Global Functions

Responsibilities

• This role is part of the Elsevier Business Decision Support (BDS) team and reports to the Finance Director, Operations and Global Functions.
• The BDS team serves as a strategic and financial partner to business leadership, enabling better decision-making and driving improved financial performance by translating financial and operational data into forward-looking insights, constructive challenge and actionable recommendations.
• As our Finance Manager – Operations & Global Functions, you’ll be a trusted finance partner to senior leaders, helping them manage costs, make sound financial decisions, and shape and deliver their longer-term plans.
• You’ll support Operations and Global Functions leadership across areas including HR, Strategy, Global Communications and Marketing.
• You’ll lead budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis for operating expenses and direct costs, turning financial information into clear recommendations and practical actions.
• Provide independent financial challenge and decision support, evaluating alternatives, developing business cases and scenarios, and influencing strategic and operational decisions through sound financial judgement.
• Ensure high standards of financial integrity and control, including accurate reporting, robust forecasting, appropriate accruals, effective cost governance and timely resolution of financial issues.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders across Operations and Global Functions, developing a deep understanding of business priorities, operational processes and underlying cost drivers to support effective decision-making.
• Take end-to-end ownership of financial planning and performance for assigned areas, including budgeting, rolling forecasts and long-term planning, ensuring robust assumptions, reliable financial outlooks and clear accountability for risks and opportunities.
• Translate financial and operational data into actionable insights, explaining performance drivers, anticipating developments, identifying risks and opportunities, and proactively recommending actions to improve financial outcomes.
• Drive direct-cost transparency and productivity improvements, developing a thorough understanding of cost structures, operational volumes, unit economics and efficiency drivers to identify, quantify and monitor opportunities for sustainable cost improvement.
• Support business transformation and AI-enabled workflows, modelling the financial impact of operational and technology changes, incorporating agreed initiatives into financial plans and monitoring the delivery of expected benefits.
• Work in a way that works for you
• Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice.

Requirements

• A postgraduate qualification in Finance, Business, Economics or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial performance analysis, management reporting and cost management, including direct costs.
• A proactive, self-driven approach, with demonstrated ability to take end-to-end ownership of complex financial responsibilities, anticipate issues, identify opportunities and deliver results independently.
• Proven ability to understand complex operational processes and cost structures, identify the underlying drivers of financial performance and translate business developments into actionable financial insights and recommendations.
• Experience in scenario planning, investment appraisal, business case development and financial modelling, ideally supporting business transformation or technology-driven initiatives.
• Strong commercial acumen, sound financial judgement and a solid understanding of accounting principles, financial governance and controls, with the confidence to constructively challenge and influence senior stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with financial planning, reporting and analytical tools.
• Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, Anaplan or Power BI is an advantage.
• Excellent communication, analytical and organisational skills, with fluency in written and spoken English and the ability to manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively across functions, geographies and time zones.
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
• Working Arrangement: Achieve a harmonious work-life balance.

RELX PLC

RELX was formed in 1993 by the merger of Reed International and Elsevier, and traded as Reed Elsevier until it took the name RELX in 2015. It is headquartered in London, with shares listed on the London Stock Exchange, Euronext Amsterdam and, as depositary receipts, the New York Stock Exchange. The group runs Elsevier (scientific, technical and medical information), LexisNexis (legal information), LexisNexis Risk Solutions (fraud and anti-money-laundering tools) and RX, the exhibitions business formerly called Reed Exhibitions. In India, RELX India Private Limited has a corporate office in Gurugram and offices in Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai.

Its finance openings in India are in credit control and finance management. Two credit controller openings are in Gurugram, one needing a French-language translation background and one asking for three or more years in credit control or accounts receivable. A finance manager role in operations and global functions is in Chennai, asking for five or more years in finance business partnering, FP&A or financial advisory. It values professional qualifications such as CA, CMA or an MBA (Finance).

• Industry: Information-based analytics and decision tools: scientific and medical (Elsevier), legal and risk (LexisNexis) and exhibitions (RX)
• Headquarters: London, United Kingdom (listed in London, Amsterdam and New York)
• In India: RELX India Private Limited with offices in Gurugram, Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai