Junior Finance Analyst

JCDecaux North America; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

JCDecaux North America is seeking a Finance Analyst on a fixed-term basis to provide analytical and reporting support across Sales, Marketing and the Finance Business Partnering team. You will help deliver timely financial information and assist with budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

The role emphasizes high-volume activities and collaboration with senior partners, in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on accuracy and proactive problem solving. Office-based in Paddington area, UK.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Good understanding of P&L mechanics and commercial drivers.

Responsibilities

• Sales & Marketing Reporting and Analysis: prepare and maintain sales reporting and analysis.
• Support monthly sales performance analysis versus budget and forecast.
• Track and analyze key commercial KPIs (buying point, advertiser analysis).
• Data, Contracts and Tools: maintain trackers related to agencies, specialists and contracts; contribute to dashboards (Excel, Power BI).
• Budgeting and forecasting: monitor performance against plans and provide variance analysis.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Analytical skills

P&L understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Bachelor's degree in Economics

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Reporting to the Senior Finance Business Partner working with Commercial & Marketing, the Finance Analyst provides analytical and reporting support across Sales, Marketing and, more broadly, the Finance Business Partnering team, ensuring the delivery of accurate, timely and insightful financial information.

This fixed-term role is intended as a targeted reinforcement to manage sustained workload pressure within commercial finance, absorbing recurring, high-volume activities and reducing execution risk. It enables senior Finance Business Partner to focus on strategic decision support, profitability optimization and stakeholder engagement during a period of high volume of project work, while safeguarding the quality and timeliness of critical reporting.

This role is well suited to an early career professional looking to develop their experience in commercial finance and business partnering within a fast paced environment.

What you’ll be doing…

Key Responsibilities

• Sales & Marketing Reporting and Analysis
  • Prepare and maintain sales reporting, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
  • Support monthly sales performance analysis versus budget and forecast.
  • Track and analyze key commercial KPIs (buying point analysis, advertiser analysis...).
• Commercial Mechanics and Governance
  • Support commission/bonus calculations and reconciliations.
  • Support follow-up of commercial terms.
• Data, Contracts and Tools
  • Maintain commercial trackers related to agencies, specialists and key contracts.
  • Contribute to reporting tools and dashboards (Excel, Power BI).
• Budgeting and forecasting
  • Assist in monitoring performance against plans and provide structured variance analysis, depending on business requirements.
  • Contribute to potential ad hoc financial projects, such as, benchmarking analysis (for budget purposes), business plans or process improvement initiatives, as assigned by senior team members.

A little bit about you…

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field or qualified by experience.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail, and proactivity in anticipating needs and understanding what the numbers are telling us
• Good understanding of P&L mechanics and commercial drivers.
• Well-organized, reliable and delivery focused.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Exposure to sales or marketing environments is an advantage.
• Advanced Excel skills (Power BI experience is a plus).
• Evidence of proactive thinking, proposing solutions to problems
• Evidence of a desire to learn and grow, showing curiosity and proactive learning, in both knowledge and skills. This includes learning new technology including AI
• Ability to be flexible about being in the office (Paddington) on a variety of days, sometimes at short notice in line with internal and external client needs.

A little bit more about us…

• We believe in building a diverse and inclusive culture and positive employee experience.

• We are One Team, more than just ourselves.

• We are customer first, we understand, and help solve our customers’ problems.

• We Test & Learn, we are empowered to learn and grow, unafraid of change.

• We choose to care, we are committed to doing the right thing, the right way.

It’s really important to us that we give as much to our colleagues as they give to us.

Our latest Belonging Survey showed that our colleagues feel valued and listened to as we continue to build an environment where everyone can thrive, grow, belong and be their authentic selves.

We believe that diversity of thought, experience and background provides the platform for great creativity,

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

Many of our Colleagues work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.