Senior Financial Analyst Python Jobs in Dayton, OH

Do you enjoy building solid internal and external relationships resulting in growth?
Do you enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to deliver on common goals?
About the role:
About the team:
The Royalty Finance team plays a key role in supporting the commercial, financial, and operational success of the business. We support royalty-related processes that help ensure financial accuracy, standardization, strong controls, and effective decision-making across the organization.
This financial decision support team is a collaborative and evolving group where no two days look the same. We value curiosity, ownership, sound judgment, and a willingness to learn. Our work combines financial analysis, cross-functional partnerships, process improvement, issue resolution, and scalable problem solving. The team operates in a specialized area of finance, but the skills developed are highly transferable.
About the role:
This individual contributor is a detail-oriented professional with strong operational and compliance expertise with proficiency in foundational financial acumen. They report to the Global Royalties Finance Manager and will partner closely with product, technology, content, and commercial teams to ensure evolving product and content initiatives are executed in a compliant, controlled, and fiscally responsible manner.
Responsibilities include royalty operations activities, implementing and improving financial and operational royalty-focused processes and controls, communicating standard business requirements, analyzing data to identify and resolve anomalies, calculating financial impacts, and driving risk-aware solutions. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong analytical capabilities and the ability to think end-to-end across interconnected systems and processes, bringing a controls-focused mindset and curiosity to assess broader business impact.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys solving problems, wants to build deep business knowledge, contribute to meaningful process improvements, and help shape how finance supports new products, systems, and ways of working.
Key Responsibilities

• Identifies financial control gaps, evaluates risk exposure and potential P&L impact, and drives timely remediation through structured corrective actions

• Performs detailed financial data analysis to detect anomalies and reinforce financial governance standards

• Applies established internal control frameworks to address routine control and compliance matters

• Proactively explores and tests LexisNexis commercial products (e.g., Lexis+ AI, Nexis+ AI) to validate business logic, content behavior, pricing configurations, and customer workflows that impact financial and royalty processes

• Develops, documents, and enhances financial policies, standard operating procedures, and end-to-end process flows to ensure compliance and reporting integrity

• Ad-hoc projects & involvement may be required to perform as the company reasonably requires

Core Competencies

• Applies a foundational understanding of financial principles and methodologies to analyze data, identify trends, and contribute to accurate reporting and business decision-making

• Analyzes complex financial and operational data to identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities, and communicates the key takeaways into actionable insights

• Proactively identifies potential risks, gaps, or process issues and takes appropriate steps to mitigate them before they impact financial accuracy, timelines, controls, or stakeholder outcomes

• Works with moderate guidance while developing deeper subject-matter expertise

• Demonstrates responsible and effective use of AI and large language model tools by identifying opportunities to automate or accelerate work, strengthen insights, reduce cycle times, and improve communication, while maintaining accountability for accuracy, data privacy, and ethical application

• Champions governance, accuracy, accountability and operational integrity

• Communicates effectively to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting with minimum 3 years of experience

• Experience in operational controls, financial analysis, compliance, or process management

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines

• Comfortable working with structured datasets, pivot tables, and data validation techniques (in Excel and beyond). Basic SQL knowledge a plus

Work in a way that works for you
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. We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working For You
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
About the business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $65,100 - $108,500. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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