Commercial Financial Analyst

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.

We are looking for a finance professional who will be managing relationships and processes across a variety of cross-functional teams. This individual is a tenacious problem solver, a creative thinker, a fast learner, someone who’s detail-oriented and interested in learning Publicis Sapient’s business. They possess the ability to multitask in a fast-paced, exciting environment to deliver financial support to client-facing teams.  

Responsibilities:  

• The ideal candidate is passionate about finance, loves spreadsheets, data validation, and problem solving.  

• Producing monthly P&L reports, investigating variances to forecast and analysing profitability at a project and account level.  

• Understanding key financial drivers such as pricing, staffing mix and erosion to support Client Services and Project Management Teams with managing project/client profitability.  

• Supporting month-end and quarter-end close process, ensuring revenue is correctly reflected in the accounts.  

• Understanding how different project types and accounting treatments impact revenue and clearly communicating reasons for variances to forecast.  

• Oversight and monitoring of delivery teams’ project trackers and other ad hoc reporting for Project Management Teams to support profitable delivery.  

• Analysing and communicating the impact of changes in staffing mix, staffing hours and pricing on project profitability. Collaborating closely with various internal teams (Capacity, Controllership, Legal, Financial Reporting) to deliver complete and accurate financial results Assisting with quarterly forecasting, using P&L results and profit modelling tools to produce account level forecasts and input to systems.  

• Building and refreshing templates in Excel for forecasting, budgeting, revenue guidance and other reporting as required.  

• Supporting Client Services and Project Management Teams through various operational processes and ensuring adherence Maintaining data integrity within systems and tools used for financial analysis and reporting.  

• Organizing and promoting team activities to foster community building Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties as assigned. 

Bachelor's degree preferred. 3+ years of professional experience Strong Excel skills.  

Confident working with large volumes of data and different data sources Outstanding attention to detail is a must with ability to multitask Strong analytical, solution-oriented thinking with the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  

A love of collaboration as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment General technical competency with an ability to learn and use new systems if required; prior experience with Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, or similar systems is a plus Fluent written and spoken English. 

• An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicis.sapient.com