Senior Analyst, Global Commercial Finance
Job title: Senior Analyst, Global Commercial
Group: Mindshare Worldwide
Reports to: Associate Director, Global Commercial
Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. People at Mindshare create ideas and solutions that help not only our clients, but also the industry and the world.
What We Can Offer You
At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer.
Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London – a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends!
We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development, there’s a wide range of options to suit everyone at all levels of your career.
The Role
The candidate will report to the Associate Director, Global Commercial. Working as part of the Global Commercial and Finance team, you will support the GCFAD (Global Client Finance Associate Director) with their role of partnering the Managing Partner responsible for the overall Client relationship through reporting, financial and commercial analysis, and commercial operations.
As a part of the wider Commercial team, you will support the whole team by ensuring key markets data is always kept up to date. Additionally, there may be occasions when the audit or legal team would require assistance with a simple task.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for an experienced Senior Analyst, Commercial Global who will play an instrumental role in further ensuring accurate and timely reporting for client and agency stakeholders.
In this role, you will work closely with commercial and finance colleagues across various markets. The ideal candidate will have proven experience of successfully analysing a P&L, consolidating data from various sources. They will demonstrate knowledge of financial reporting tools and excel functions as well as developing reporting templates.
Essential Criteria
* Experience building financial reports
* Advanced experience using Excel (unpivoting databases, power pivot, power query, charts and graphs, pivot tables, formulas)
* Proactive approach to expanding knowledge and capabilities
* Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
* Able to communicate effectively and work as part of a wider, cross-capability team
* Willingness to help with all tasks required to be completed
Responsibilities
* Manage the whole process of collecting from all markets, query by variance analysis, correct where necessary or advise markets on corrections necessary
* Consolidate when finalised all market reports, aggregate financial data from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive view for each market
* Ensuring an accurate and complete summary of all markets is available
* Collect and consolidate adhoc client reporting per contract requirement
* Coordinate data collection and reports from markets, facilitate communication between markets to ensure timely and consistent data collection
* Manage day to day relation with markets contacts, be the point of contact for markets and commercial team members
* Ensure the annual WPP FX rates are received and prepared and shared with markets at the start of each year.
* Complete client reporting and analyse financial KPIs extracting insight in order to provide recommendations for future reports
* Ensure any changes to the legal status/ownerships of markets is up to date
* Effectively manage your workload, and submit deliverables to your manager within deadlines
Key Behaviours and Knowledge
* Support the team with tasks, providing guidance where needed
* Effectively communicate with your manager, and group commercial contacts regarding deadlines and delivery of work
* Very strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to succinctly communicate with finance and non-finance people alike
* Strong listening skills and ability to process verbal information.
* Proven verbal and written communicator who can adapt communication style accordingly.
* Highly self-motivated, flexible and possess a high level of initiative.
* Ability to prioritise and complete tasks to deadlines.
* Understanding of SOX obligations, Accounting Standards and Business Control Environments.
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