Senior Associate, Client Finance — P&L & Growth

Publicis Groupe UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

Paid leave

Health benefits

Work-life balance

Competitive package

Learning opportunities

Diversity and inclusion

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Senior Associate, Client Finance to join our Industry Finance team. You will partner with Country leadership to manage an Industry P&L and provide actionable financial insights to drive profitable growth across projects and clients.

You will deliver weekly revenue estimates, analyze monthly results, flag risks, and support monthly and quarterly closes, while working with Client Services and Project teams to improve profitability and forecast accuracy.

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.

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.

Job description

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Senior Associate, Client Finance to join our Industry Finance team. You will partner with Country leadership to manage an Industry P&L and provide actionable financial insights to drive profitable growth across projects and clients.

You will deliver weekly revenue estimates, analyze monthly results, flag risks, and support monthly and quarterly closes, while working with Client Services and Project teams to improve profitability and forecast accuracy.