Financial Analyst, Intelligence Americas

Department: Business Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Philadelphia

Compensation: $90,000 - $112,500 / year

Description

Why LBR?An amazing market position, enviable growth, collaboration and wonderful people are just some of the reasons to further your career with Law Business Research. Our culture is shaped by our core values that promote equality, agility, and respect in everything we do.

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The Financial Analyst, Intelligence Americas is a partner to the Senior Finance Business Partner, supporting strategic decision-making through forward-looking insights, commercial performance analysis, and data-driven recommendations across the Americas Intelligence business. This role provides meaningful exposure to senior commercial and finance leaders while helping shape business performance and financial outcomes.

The Financial Analyst is responsible for delivering analytics and insights across multiple revenue streams, including subscription revenue, books/reference product sales, licensing, and related commercial offerings. The role supports the Senior Finance Business Partner through financial reporting, modeling, forecasting, and decision support designed to improve commercial outcomes and drive profitable growth.

This role plays a critical part in forecasting accuracy, performance transparency, and cross-functional alignment within a subscription-led, data-driven business environment.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Forecasting
• Support annual budget and forecasts for the Americas Intelligence business
• Develop a deep understanding of the key drivers of revenue and articulate drivers of forecast changes and performance variances to budget
• Own and continuously evolve the Americas Intelligence revenue model, including renewals, AACV, TCV, churn, and new bookings 
• Partner with the broader Americas Finance team on ad hoc analysis, leadership requests, and strategic planning initiatives

Performance Analysis & Reporting
• Design and deliver weekly business health snapshots highlighting risks, opportunities, and key commercial trends
• Support monthly performance deep-dives, including variance analysis versus forecast, budget, and prior year
• Analyze trends across renewals, new business, books/reference sales, pricing, and customer retention
• Track outcomes of strategic and commercial decisions against forecast assumptions and identify root causes of performance variances

Dashboarding & Data Enablement
• Create and enhance dashboards that communicate business performance clearly and support timely decision-making 
• Partner closely with the FP&A team to ensure high-quality data, consistency of metrics, and alignment of assumptions across Finance and Sales 
• Identify opportunities to simplify reporting, automate recurring analysis, and improve insight generation

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Finance, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or another quantitative field 
• 3–5 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, or commercial finance, preferably within a subscription-based, recurring revenue, or multi-revenue-stream business 
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and financial modeling skills 
• Advanced Excel skills with experience building structured, scalable, and auditable models 
• Working knowledge of Salesforce; experience analyzing pipeline and sales performance metrics preferred 
• Strong communication skills