RELX

Senior Finance Manager

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Beijing • 🇨🇳 China

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GoOracle

About the role

  • Monthly Reporting: Delivered on time and to a high standard, providing insightful variance analysis to both latest forecast/Budget and prior year enabling both regional reporting and local understanding including effective management of revenue and/or cost variances
  • Budgeting/Reforecasting: Manage quarterly process ensuring enough time for local review without over-extending.
  • Decision Support: Provide insight and challenge to senior management ensuring risks are fully understood and mitigated where possible and likewise opportunities are highlighted and pursued
  • Sustainable Revenue Growth: Supporting the Go to Market teams (in alignment with sales operations) across pricing, deal terms, targeting, sales compensation, territory planning etc.
  • Operational Effectiveness: Continually evaluate the deployment of resources and how they align with organizational priorities, proposing changes where relevant.
  • Financial governance and effective control: Close collaboration with Global Finance Shared Services and Centres of Excellence to ensure appropriate control environments are in place, including systems/procedures outside of finance e.g. Sales.
  • Liaison with Internal and External Auditors as appropriate leading to clean audit reports
  • Liaison with wider Finance teams: Develop close relationships with other finance teams providing shared services as well as technology and operations support ensuring the finance needs of the Greater China team and business are met holistically
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, e.g. product and technology to ensure successful execution and scaling of initiatives
  • People Development: As well as managing a direct team member, as a key member of the Greater China management team, identify and nurture talent helping individuals towards achieving their own individual career goals
  • Stakeholder Communication: Communicate performance, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment across the wider organization

Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field required; MBA and/or certifications, i.e. CIMA, CFA or CPA preferred or equivalent
  • 10+ years demonstrated successful and progressive financial analysis and reporting experience, preferably within large organisations with complex products & solutions
  • Fluency in English
  • Demonstrable experience of driving strategy and planning initiatives
  • Advanced computer skills including spreadsheets, query and databases with in-depth understanding of financial systems and software; prefer Oracle and Hyperion Smartview
  • Executive level communication, presentation and influencing skills
  • Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level
  • Demonstrated success in performance management; includes holding people accountable for clearly set standards and objectives, giving explicit direction regarding performance expectation and acting to address performance through effective coaching, training and performance management.
Benefits
  • Medical and Life Insurance: Coverage for Medical and life risk.
  • Long-Service Award: Recognition for loyalty and dedication.
  • Marriage and New Baby Gifts: Celebratory tokens for special life events.
  • Festivals and Birthday Gifts: Spreading joy on occasions that matter.
  • Annual Medical Check-up: Prioritizing employee well-being through regular health check-ups.
  • Flexible Benefits via CIIC Platform: Personalized benefits accessible through a user-friendly platform.
  • Paid Time Off: Annual Leave, Flex Family Care Leave, Birthday Leave, Marriage Leave, Compassionate Leave, Medical and Hospitalization Leave, Examination Leave Gazetted Public Holiday.
  • Family Care leave (Maternity/Paternity Leave and Adoption Leave).

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
financial analysisreportingbudgetingforecastingvariance analysisperformance managementstrategy developmentresource allocationrisk managementcost management
Soft skills
stakeholder communicationcross-functional collaborationpeople developmentexecutive communicationpresentation skillsinfluencing skillsproblem analysisproblem resolutionteam managementinsight generation
Certifications
CIMACFACPAMBA