Remote Senior Skincare Consultant & Dermatology Expert

United Kingdom
South Africa
Full time
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Want to grow your career in a fast-paced environment where your financial analysis has real impact?
Do you thrive on solving problems and figuring out why something doesn't add up?
About our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case.

As part of the finance team supporting LexisNexis Global Operations, you'll be joining a company that values curiosity, innovation, and a proactive approach to solving complex business challenges. Global Operations supports regions in North America, UK, CEMEA, Asia and Pacific with over 2,300 employees globally.

About the Role
We are hiring a Decision Support Analyst to join our Finance team. This role is designed for professionals with 2-5 years' experience who want to develop strong analytical, problem-solving, and data troubleshooting capabilities in a fast-paced business environment.

In this role you will work with real, imperfect data and be expected to analyze, validate, and troubleshoot information to generate reliable, decision-grade insights. You will partner with finance and business stakeholders to understand performance, identify issues, and support better commercial outcomes.

• Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational teams to analyze business performance and support decision-making
• Build and maintain components of budgeting, forecasting, and financial models
• Analyze, validate, and troubleshoot financial and operational data across multiple systems and data sources
• Investigate and resolve data discrepancies, identifying root causes and implementing fixes
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and performance metrics with a focus on accuracy and usability
• Perform variance and root cause analysis to explain drivers of performance
• Translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches
• Deliver clear, actionable insights (not just reports) that inform business decisions
• Work with stakeholders to improve data quality, reporting processes, and automation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
• 2-5 years of experience in analytics, finance, or a related role
• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, basic modeling)
• Demonstrated ability to work with large, messy, or incomplete datasets
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Solid communication skills with the ability to explain analysis clearly
• Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to challenge data and assumptions
• Persistence in solving problems when answers are not immediately clear

Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

+ 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

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.

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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RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.

Our purpose is to benefit society by developing products that help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results for their clients; businesses and governments prevent fraud; consumers access financial services and get fair prices on insurance; and customers learn about markets and complete transactions.

Our purpose guides our actions beyond the products that we develop. It defines us as a company. Every day across RELX our employees are inspired to undertake initiatives that make unique contributions to society and the communities in which we operate.

Data Acquisition Specialist - External Data (Remote/Homebased)

Bloemfontein, South Africa
Durban-Inland, KZN, South Africa
Centurion, South Africa
Bellville, South Africa
Full time
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The Data Acquisition Specialist performs activities relating to the definition, set-up and ingestion of External Data Streams, and related documents and processes aligned with Clinical Trial Protocol defined requirements for data capture.

External data streams include but are not limited to typical and novel data collected through central labs and ECG, medical imaging, biomarker and genomics analysis, real world data sources, EHR, electronic patient reported outcomes, wearables and sensors and other digital data collection technologies.

• Execute deliverables for Standardized External Data Streams.
• Assess external data collection requirements per protocol and planning of external data stream set-up activities and related deliverables to meet study start‑up timelines.
• Liaise with key data stakeholders to establish the purpose of data collection and requirements for the transfer, ingestion, and structure of data for each data stream in compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, utilizing available standards and templates
• Create change requests for the definition of new test concepts or data structures relating to external data.
• Develop trial‑specific Data Transfer Agreements (tsDTA's) accurately documenting study requirements and methods for the data transfer, ingestion, and structure.
• Ensure data transfer frequencies are sufficient for the agreed requirements (medical data review, central monitoring, and reporting and analysis).
• Liaise with external data providers to ensure alignment and agreement of tsDTA.
• Translate medical and scientific concepts into data mapping guidance, per agreed data model and documented in the annotated Data Transfer Agreement for use by Clinical programmers.
• UAT of test data transfers ensure accuracy and consistency with data specifications defined in Data Transfer Agreements.
• Implement data transfer mechanisms for external data streams (into CDR) including access for external data providers.
• Monitor availability and accuracy of external data streams, liaise with external data providers to resolve data transfer issues relating to conformance of data.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, preferably in Computer Science.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience managing data in support of clinical research.
• Experience working with external data e.g., Safety Lab, PK, Simple Biomarkers, ECG, etc
• Experience in working with external data providers within a clinical study setting.
• Experience developing data transfer agreements.
• Experience working on clinical trials.
• Experience working in highly diverse teams within clinical research; cross‑functional, global, multiregional.
• Knowledge of SDTM.
• Working knowledge of GCP/ICH guidelines
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials