Senior Associate Client Finance

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of the next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

The Senior Associate, Client Finance will work on a team, structured by Industry Model, focused on managing an Industry P&L, while supporting Country leadership on regional reporting. Client Finance Team works closely with the business to help understand financial performance and drive profitable growth. The Senior Associate, Client Finance will also partner closely with Country/Industry finance teams to provide financial support related to clients in their industry across Publicis Sapient International.

 

The individual needs to be an experienced finance professional, a confident communicator capable of supporting senior stakeholders. They need to be able to drive performance in a fast-paced environment, operating across a complex structure to provide financial insights to support decision-making.

 Key Responsibilities 

 

• Provide weekly revenue estimation, understand, and communicate key risks and opportunities to the wider business.
• Analyze monthly results and communicate the drivers of variances to forecast to feed into P&L reviews with both finance leadership and Client Services and Project.
• Identify and flag potential areas of risk to senior team members and participate in development of solutions to mitigate those risks
• Understand how factors such as pricing, contract structure, accounting treatment and staffing mix impact project and client profitability.
• Use quarterly results and profit modelling analysis to maintain a full year profitability outlook at client level.
• Identify plans to manage risks and improve profitability at a client and project level and partner with Client Services and Project Management Teams to implement.
• Partner with Controllership and Revenue teams to support monthly and quarterly closes. Understand and be able to explain all significant variances to forecast.
• Collect and analyze inputs from Client Services teams to inform quarterly forecast and annual target setting process. Understand and flag the risks and opportunities at a client level and their impact on industry revenue and profitability.
• Partner with other teams both within and outside Finance to ensure financial data and reporting is consistent and accurate.
• Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties assigned.

 

Qualifications

• Provide weekly revenue estimation, understand, and communicate key risks and opportunities to the wider business.
• Analyze monthly results and communicate the drivers of variances to forecast to feed into P&L reviews with both finance leadership and Client Services and Project.
• Identify and flag potential areas of risk to senior team members and participate in development of solutions to mitigate those risks
• Understand how factors such as pricing, contract structure, accounting treatment and staffing mix impact project and client profitability.
• Use quarterly results and profit modelling analysis to maintain a full year profitability outlook at client level.
• Identify plans to manage risks and improve profitability at a client and project level and partner with Client Services and Project Management Teams to implement.
• Partner with Controllership and Revenue teams to support monthly and quarterly closes. Understand and be able to explain all significant variances to forecast.
• Collect and analyze inputs from Client Services teams to inform quarterly forecast and annual target setting process. Understand and flag the risks and opportunities at a client level and their impact on industry revenue and profitability.
• Partner with other teams both within and outside Finance to ensure financial data and reporting is consistent and accurate.
• Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties assigned.

Additional Information

• Wellness program and employee assistance. 

• Generous paid leave and holidays. 

• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family. 

• Flexibility to support work-life balance. 

• Competitive compensation and benefits package. 

• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities. 

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration. 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]