Publicis Groupe

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organisations 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 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.

Job Description

As a Manager you will work as part of our International financial reporting team, with focus on DACH market. Our team coordinates forecast and all reporting functions across all business units for Publicis Sapient DACH. This includes weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual performance. The Manager will help with timely variance analysis, KPI/metric reporting, and special projects as needed. The position will work with various financial and business leaders across the organization with high visibility.

As a parental leave cover the position is limited to 12 months.

A successful Manager candidate will have the ability to manage multiple projects, adapt to changing business requirements in a fast-paced work environment, an inquisitive and curious nature, and a commitment to delivering financial solutions that balance business needs with regional and corporate obligations.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual financial analysis (Budget, Forecast and Actuals)
• Reach with the Controllership teams in monthly and quarterly closes to support in providing significant variances to budget/forecast and explain the “reason why”
• Consolidate financial reports from business unit (Matrix Organisation) by rolling up inputs and reaching out for commentary to several stakeholders
• Collaborate and support various processes
• Ensure efficiency and consistency of planning across divisions.
• Proactively considering improvements to existing processes how new decisions will impact existing processes. Have “can do” attitude
• Prepare and run business plans (annual budget, rolling forecasts, project calculations)
• Support and assisting in information gathering including KPI and other metrics
• Ensures business is running smoothly and efficiently in terms of financial processes and operations.
• Ensure accurate submission of all reports in compliance with Groupe’s deadline.
• Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience within FP&A or Financial/Management Reporting preferred
• Groupe/Industry experience preferred
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel; Oracle or SAP & PowerBI is an advantage.
• Committed, detail oriented, self-starter with strong problem solving and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects / initiatives on tight schedules and timelines
• Attention to detail and strong analytical, solution-oriented thinking
• Enjoys working in a fast paced, dynamic environment

Additional Information

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.

Publicis Sapient UK is a disability confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point on the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing hiringuk@publicissapient.com. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us: hiringuk@publicissapient.com

Publicis Sapient fosters an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups, to learn more please visit https://careers.publicissapient.com/life-at-ps/diversity-inclusion

Benefits

• We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare (pre-existing conditions included) and a pension
• We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
• Free and delicious coffee served by our very own in-house baristas
• We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms 
• We work with you to give back to the local community through CSR efforts