Finance Analyst

SAMSUNG; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the digital media sector is seeking a finance partner to support their European advertising team. The role involves analysis and reporting, requiring strong Excel skills and the ability to manage client relationships effectively. Employees benefit from a hybrid working model, performance bonuses, and generous vacation leave.

Benefits

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home

Bonus scheme linked to performance

Pension contribution

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Access to discounts on Samsung products

Qualifications

• Experience with Excel formulas, macros, and pivot tables is required.
• Familiarity with media and TV measurement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end closing, billing, and reporting processes.
• Collaborate with finance teams for month-end reconciliation.
• Manage client relationships and resolve billing queries.

Skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Advanced Excel

Communication

SQL

Tools

Salesforce

SAP

Operative.One

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Position Summary

Why join our team?

ESBO (European Service Business Organisation) is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and determining new opportunities within the digital media and advertising industry, aiming to create scalable services and businesses on top of the global footprint of European Samsung Smart TVs. The ESBO team works to build value for partners, advertisers, and agencies through its unique 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.

• 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 robust.
• Revenue 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

What we need for this role

To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:

• Attention to detail, ability to multitask, and strong social skills required.
• Must be task-driven and able to produce and meet key deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced Excel skills are required, including formulas, macros, and pivot tables.
• Experience working with Salesforce, Operative.One, SAP is a plus.
• SQL skills or experience working with statistical analysis/tools.
• Familiarity with media, TV measurement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

What does success look like?

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

Skills and Qualifications

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 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 based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.