Financial Analyst

Publicis Groupe; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Groupe is seeking a Financial Analyst to monitor multiple clients’ financial health, manage budgets, and lead billing and revenue forecasting. You will prepare journal entries, client reporting, and drive process improvements. Strong Excel, accounting knowledge, and communication skills are essential.

The role supports cross-client teams in a fast-paced, data-driven environment, with opportunities to influence profitability and operational efficiency across campaigns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business required.
• Strong Excel skills, including Pivot Tables.
• Experience with financial reporting systems (PeopleSoft/SAP).
• Understanding of accounting concepts (debits/credits, revenue recognition).
• Excellent communication and partnership-building abilities.
• Detail-oriented with ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor client financial health across budgets, spend, and revenue.
• Manage client long sheets and budget/run rate tracking.
• Ensure timely client billing and support documentation collection.
• Prepare journal entries and client-specific reporting.
• Identify issues, propose improvements, and assist process optimizations.
• Translate finance reports for client teams and regional staff.

Skills

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Communication skills

Microsoft Office

Excel (Pivot Tables)

Financial data analysis

Team player

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business

Tools

PeopleSoft

SAP

Job description

Company description

PHM is the leading health media agency in the US, built for the modern healthcare experience. Here, industry depth meets media scale, where data becomes direction, where creativity and storytelling bring truth to life, and where orchestration replaces fragmentation.

Dedicated to making brands discovered, PHM redefines what media can do through data, content, and creativity. Because in modern healthcare, the brands that are found are the ones that lead. And when brands lead, advantage follows. Go deeper. Be found.

Overview

Position Summary

Position suitable for a highly motivated, precise, detail-oriented, service-focused individual who will monitor financial health on multiple clients.

The Financial Analyst position supports client teams by managing a long sheet, which tracks budget, spend, run rate, recognized revenue and forecast. Also responsible for the execution of billing and receivables as well as to highlight key issues and exposure items that may impact profitability. The Financial Analyst will also prepare journal entries and prep and present client-specific reporting, be involved in process improvement projects and ad hoc reporting in support of business needs.The Financial analyst should be a self-starter, with strong written and personal communication skills. This position also requires the ability to sift through and present data in a clear and compelling way.

Detailed Description

• Responsible for managing client long sheets (budget, spend, run rate, revenue), and develop and understanding of project lifecycle and project types in relation and their effects on budgets and spend
• Responsible for maintenance of client rate cards
• Review key financial metrics and proactively resolve issues (unpaid invoices, inactive activities, persuasive evidence, unbilled, A/R, Gross Margin, Contribution margin)
• Initiate routine and non-routine journal entries to ensure an accurate categorization of reserves/absorptions, allocations and appropriate WIP maintenance
• Responsible for timely and accurate client billing, and the collection of support documentation as needed
• Coordinate with a billing coordinator, in some cases
• Calculate run rates to monitor and manage financial progress against budgets
• Run percent complete meetings and accurately track revenue recognition
• Ability to manipulate large data sets and transform for analytical use
• Generate and distribute system reports. Analyze data and provide commentary as appropriate.
• Highlight potential issues and recommend possible solutions
• Understand requests, question or suggest alternatives when appropriate
• Ability to explain and translate finance reports/documents to client teams/regional staff
• Show judgment on when to elevate issues/requests and when to resolve independently
• Suggest process improvements to benefit Capability
• Initiative, responsibility and follow through for "owned" work a must
• Leverage Capability resources to resolve issues
• Prioritize and streamline tasks to ensure accuracy and efficiencies

Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proficiency with Excel (including Pivot Tables)
• Familiarity using financial reporting systems (PeopleSoft, SAP)
• Understanding of accounting concepts (debits/credits, revenue recognition, reserves/absorptions)
• Interpersonal skills necessary to build strong partnerships and communicate with diverse groups agency-wide
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask
• Accountability and flexibility a must
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Strong organization and communication skills
• Positive team player attitude
• Minimum of one - two years of professional experience in a Finance or Accounting position
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business

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Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Difference" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $40,280.00 - USD $59,553.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/9/2026.