Senior Finance Analyst (Commercial)

Ogilvy was founded in 1948 by David Ogilvy. David created a culture that deeply respects and cares about its people and clients. Our mission is to inspire people and brands to make an impact and we are committed to attracting, growing, and retaining the best talent in the industry. 

About the Role  

The Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for the areas relating to management accounting/financial planning and analysis expertise. A role to ensure that generally accepted accounting principles, practices and procedures are implemented to deliver accurate and timely financial plans and effective management accounting analysis.

What You’ll Do

•  Prepare monthly revenue for reporting and compliance reports (i.e. Revenue Monitoring; SOX Reports)
  •  Includes monitoring accrued and deferred ageing
  •  Revenue analysis comparing actuals vs forecast and past year's performance per client
  •  Includes ensuring monthly targets are hit as an agency
  •  Organize each client appropriately per Cartesis Code Reporting and related OpCo
    
• Meet with each lead on a monthly basis and validate their monthly revenue if they are in compliance with WPP's Revenue Recognition Policy
  
• One of the leads for Job organization and configuration to ensure that projects follow SOPs.
  • Includes job approvals submitted by Accounts Team
  • Job clean-up and organization are done on a regular basis to ensure only relevant jobs are maintained open
  •  Address Maconomy related concerns by other employees (i.e. Timesheets, Job information, etc.)
    
• Assist the Group Finance Director in preparing quarterly forecasts and generating upload file templates for regional reporting
  •  Prepare and update on a regular basis the Consolidated Revenue file shared with the Managing Partners to assess if they are within targets
    
• Be able to reconcile figures and balances when needed, if discrepancies are noticed or questions are asked.
  
  • Being a financial partner to the different leads if they have any questions regarding their targets / accrued / revenue reported historically
    
• Prepare files and answering all queries related to revenue especially if it's related to government documents

What You’ll Need  

• 2-3 years of related working experience 
• Bachelor's Degree in related program
• Must be proficient in using Microsoft Excel  

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.  

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