Associate Director, Client Finance (contract)

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Job Description

Publicis Groupe is looking for an Associate Director of Client Finance to support financial operations and analysis for a portfolio of client accounts with a specific focus on media budgets and spending. Reporting to the Client Finance Director, you will serve as a key business partner and work closely with client account leads, agency finance leads, and other Publicis Groupe stakeholders.

PLEASE NOTE: The employment term expected to be a period of 4-6 months. This is a hybrid role and will require an onsite commitment of 3 days per week. While we are flexible on location for this role, preference will given to candidates local to a major metro in the Eastern or Central time zones with highest priority given to candidates commutable to our Chicago, Atlanta, or Miami offices.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic financial guidance and support to client services teams.
• Establish and maintain a successful workflow between Media, Creative, Media Finance, Accounts Payable and Client Finance.
• Monitor client budgets, forecast revenue, interpret financial data, and report on client profitability.
• Manage and hold media delivery teams to deadlines, providing process and structure for junior-level employees.
• Perform financial reconciliation of multiple brands/agencies across Groupe.
• Build trust and credibility with clients by ensuring audit compliance and prompt billing reconciliation
• Support financial analysis and reporting including reporting monthly revenue variances to the Client Finance Director
• Foster internal and external client relations, collaborating with Account, Project Managers, and Finance team leads
• Identify opportunities for revenue and profit growth and areas of improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 7-9 years of prior professional experience supporting financial operations, analysis, budgets, and P&L for multiple client accounts.
• Prior experience working alongside or within media teams in an advertising agency or a large/complex matrixed environment.
• Experience working in a client-facing capacity including delivering presentations, leading meetings, and collaborating to identify and resolve issues.
• Experience owning P&L responsibility for multiple accounts.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (including creating and manipulating pivot tables, V/H/XLookups, etc.) and experience building presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with specialized media tools (such as Prisma, DDS/Mediaocean, etc.) as well as financial and CRM tools (such as Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, etc.) strongly preferred.
• An ability to concisely and clearly communicate and present complex ideas, concepts, data, and other information to key stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills with an ability to develop and navigate relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across a multiple brands, teams, and functions.
• An ability to provide guidance and support to multiple concurrent projects across various stages of completion.

Additional Information

At Publicis Groupe, we offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.

You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits. You will also be eligible to participate in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after you complete 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.

Razorfish is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as