Executive - Operations
Publicis Groupe
Job Summary
As a Financial Operations Executive, you will play a key support role within the finance team, helping ensure seamless day-to-day operations across two agencies. You will assist with essential finance-related processes, working closely with both the finance and client service teams. This role involves acting as a point of contact for operational financial requests and ensuring timely execution of tasks, including vendor and client management, purchase orders, billing support, and payments coordination.
Must Have
- Assist in vendor onboarding and creation in internal systems
- Support client account creation processes and documentation tracking
- Prepare and issue purchase orders as per project and procurement requirements
- Assist in consolidating billing documentation and raising invoices
- Prepare weekly payment batches in line with internal approval workflows
- Act as a daily point of contact for client servicing teams for finance-related requests
- Provide general administrative support to ensure the smooth execution of financial processes
- Maintain accurate records and trackers for vendors, clients, POs, invoices, and payments
- Support ad-hoc reporting needs as requested by the finance lead
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
- 0–6 Months of experience in finance operations or administrative support roles
- Proficiency in MS Excel is a must
- English and Arabic are a must
Good to Have
- Basic knowledge of finance processes (P2P, billing, etc.)
- Knowledge and proficiency of ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
Job Description
Overview
As a Financial Operations Executive, you will play a key support role within the finance team, helping ensure seamless day-to-day operations across two agencies. You will assist with essential finance-related processes. You will work closely with both the finance and client service teams, acting as a point of contact for operational financial requests and ensuring timely execution of tasks.
Responsibilities
Technical & Product
- Vendor & Client Management
- Assist in vendor onboarding and creation in internal systems
- Support client account creation processes and documentation tracking
- Purchase Orders & Billing Support
- Prepare and issue purchase orders as per project and procurement requirements
- Assist in consolidating billing documentation and raising invoices in coordination with the finance team
- Follow up and review on the open jobs
- Payments Coordination
- Prepare weekly payment batches in line with internal approval workflows
Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency
- Operational Support
- Act as a daily point of contact for the client servicing teams for finance-related requests
- Provide general administrative support to ensure the smooth execution of financial processes
Innovative & Analytical Mindset
- Reporting & Documentation
- Maintain accurate records and trackers for vendors, clients, POs, invoices, and payments
- Support ad-hoc reporting needs as requested by the finance lead
People & Leadership
- Seeks others' feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.
- Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team working and collaboration.
- Is able to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner.
- Collaborates with stakeholders and embraces an inclusive based environment.
- Is able to make valuable contributions to discussions and brainstorming sessions, providing insight and point of view.
- Able to build relationships quickly with others and engages personally with peers and clients.
- Treats others with respect, listens to other perspectives, especially when they are different from own.
- Able to tackle problems in a timely manner and develop contingency plans that focus on problem resolution.
- Drives a culture of trust with Peers, clients and all other stakeholders.
Self
- Is able to take ownership for actions and deals with consequences in a mature manner.
- Able to adjust performance based on experiences and feedback and showcases agility and flexibility.
- Displays openness to the ideas of others and leverages them when beneficial for the business.
- Showcases curiosity and open mindset towards new ways of doing things.
- Is able to set high impact objectives and goes above and beyond to exceed performance.
- Demonstrates the Growth Mindset and is able to take ownership of personal development and growth.
- Capable of constructively challenging the status-quo and takes risks to challenge internal and external perspectives.
- Approaches situations and individuals with honesty, integrity and humbleness.
- Displays resilience and maintains drives and a positive outlook when faced with challenges,
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
- 0–6 Months of experience in finance operations or administrative support roles (internships included)
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
- Basic knowledge of finance processes (P2P, billing, etc.) is a plus
- Proficiency in MS Excel is a must
- Knowledge and proficiency of ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.) is an advantage
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-agency environment
- Strong communication skills and team spirit
- English and Arabic are a must
Additional information
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