Finance Analyst

Samsung Electronics UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus scheme

Pension contribution

Volunteer days

Holiday 25 days + BH

Discounts on Samsung products

Job summary

Samsung Electronics in London seeks a proactive finance partner to support the European advertising team, acting as the trusted adviser to the ad sales group and delivering actionable insights that drive performance.

This role collaborates with accounts receivable and credit risk teams, owning month-end close, billing and revenue reporting, while building robust processes and dashboards with Excel, Salesforce, SAP and SQL.

Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, macros, pivot tables.
• Experience with Salesforce, SAP and SQL is a plus.
• Familiarity with media, TV measurement is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end closing, billing, and reporting processes.
• Collaborate with finance teams to ensure reconciliations and billing accuracy.
• Manage client relations and promptly resolve billing queries.
• Support revenue reporting, credit risk data and forecasting.
• Develop dashboards and key metrics to drive business performance.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Salesforce

SAP

SQL

Operative.One

Statistical analysis/tools

TV measurement familiarity

Written and verbal communication

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Position Summary

ESBO (European Service Business Organisation) is responsible for identifying, evaluating and determining new opportunities within the digital media and advertising industry with the goal of crafting scalable services and businesses on top of the global footprint of European Samsung Smart TVs and Mobiles. The ESBO team is working to build value for partners, advertisers, and agencies through its outstanding insights into TV viewership in the shifting media landscape.

Role And Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities

We’re looking for a driven, collaborative and forward thinking person to join our European advertising team. In this role, you will be the finance partner and trusted adviser to our advertising sales team, ensuring that the drivers of performance are well understood, and providing your business partners with actionable insights. Your role will also involve close collaboration with accounts receivable and credit risk teams.

What will be your key deliverables?

• Month-End Closing and Reporting: Own month-end closing, billing, and reporting processes. Identify and highlight business interventions as needed to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
• Collaboration and Reconciliation: Work with finance teams to ensure successful month-end reconciliation and billing processes, maintaining strong client relationships and resolving billing queries promptly.
• Client Relations and Query Resolution: Manage client relationships and resolve billing queries promptly.
• End-to-End Workflow Management: Collaborate with internal teams to ensure the full workflow—from client setup to campaign billing is complete, customer-centric, and robustRevenue and Financial Reporting: Assist internal teams in accurate and timely reporting of revenue generation, credit, billing, and cash collection.
• Data Accuracy and Record Maintenance: Ensure data accuracy across multiple datasets. Maintain complete, accurate, and readily available records and reports for credit risk data, including customer profiles, credit limits, and exposure levels.
• Reporting and Analysis: Build and maintain key reporting metrics that drive business performance ensuring timely and accurate forecasts and metrics are consistently updated on credit and billing (e.g., credit requests, utilization, exposure, trends).
• Continuous Process Improvement: Simplify, improve, and scale existing processes and tools to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Actively participate in cross-departmental project teams.
• Ad Hoc Reporting and Analysis:Generate ad hoc financial reports and models for the ESBO leadership team as needed.

What We Need For This Role

• Experience within a finance team within a matrixed environment
• Attention to detail, ability to multitask and strong social skills required
• Must be task driven & have the ability to produce and hit key deliverable deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced Excel skills are required, including a deep understanding of formulas, macros, pivot tables
• Experience working with Salesforce - a plus
• Experience working with Operative. One - a plus
• Experience working with SAP - a plus
• SQL skills – a plus
• Experience working with statistical analysis/tools - a plus
• Familiarity with media, TV measurement - a plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

What does success look like?

• Experience evaluating, analysing and crafting significant business reporting
• Ability to develop strategic relationships with your finance and business partners. You can root cause issues quickly and uncover core issues using data, then assist, consult with, and guide the teams how decisions affect efficiency, scalability, costs and build new mechanisms as they are needed
• Ability to take care of ambiguity & provide guidance during unexpected events

Benefits of working at Samsung include

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
• Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
• Pension contribution
• Three volunteering days each year
• Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
• Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
• Access to a discount shopping portal
• Partner Colleagues are not eligible for Samsung Enhanced Paid Sick Leave but may be eligible for statutory payments from their payroll agency
• Up to 20 (pro-rata) Partner Absence days per calendar year to be used in times of need

A note on equal opportunities

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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