Senior Manager, Financial Reporting

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Through the combination of creative and strategic thinking, and a focus on the smallest details, the efforts of the Capabilities and Practices Finance team have a significant impact on the company’s results.  This position will be an experienced finance leader possessing strong problem solving skills, with a passion for creating actionable analytics and a desire to achieve exceptional results in a fast paced environment.

Your Impact:    

• Manage 1-2 associates as you provide guidance and work closely with internal Business partner leadership as well as country level financial reporting teams through analysis of data and reporting as a basis for strategic decisions and improving operating performance
• Provide financial analysis and reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
  • Report and analyze multiple P&Ls for purposes of budgeting, forecasting, actuals reporting, and decision making
  • Provide guidance and analysis of company operations through financial reporting as a basis for strategic decisions and improving operating performance
  • Subject matter expert on all items related to forecasting, budgeting, and operations
  • Support Senior Management by co-ordinating information gathering including KPIs and other metrics
  • Ensures business is running smoothly and efficiently in terms of financial processes and operations
  • Create and deliver management reports on key initiatives, metrics, opportunities and risks
  • Ensure accurate and timely submission of all reports in compliance with Group’s deadline
  • Provide thorough recommendations to solve business issues and implement “best practices”
  • Prioritize and streamline tasks to ensure accuracy of financial information that is being shared across the organization at different levels
• Collaborate with multiple functions including Finance, Capacity & Business teams to ensure accurate communication and efficient processes
  • Coordinate with country CFO’s & Brand financial reporting leads regarding Capability reporting & labor usage
  • Drive best practices in financial reporting and the global consolidation process
  • Support business reviews for planning and re-forecasting on an on-going basis, providing thought leadership around business drivers and their impact, understanding full P&L
  • Prepare various presentations or supporting materials and present results to Leadership
• Adhoc requests and process management, including but not limited to: 
  • Internal restructures, financial re-statements, labor analytics, utilization analytics, Power BI dashboards data validation, missing Persuasive Evidence (PE) reporting & adjusted financials
  • Other projects and duties as assigned 

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:    

• 7 to 10 years of experience within Financial/Management Reporting
• Experience in leading projects and tracks of work through to completion
• Committed, detail oriented, self-starter with strong problem solving and interpersonal skills, with experience working on a team
• Ability to meet deadlines and work in time sensitive environments
• Excellent communication skills to clearly and accurately convey complex metrics and analysis to internal teams and all levels of management
• Demonstrated ability to theorize, develop and refine creative financial/operational models 
• Experience in leading projects and tracks of work through to completion
• Perceptive discernment to identify problems, understand and be able to explain variances, evaluate consistency of financial information reported by agencies and calculate and project results
• Proficiency in interpreting financial results and key ratios to analyze and project trends
• Executive presence necessary to work with senior level management
• Strong Excel skills including experience with financial/operational model building 
• Hyperion Financial Manager and/or Oracle experience preferred 
• Thrive under pressure and deadl