Senior Associate Revenue Recognition

44 Minutes ago • 3 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Finance Senior Associate specializing in revenue at Publicis Sapient, you will join the Global Revenue Operations Team, focusing on assigned international teams. Your role involves ensuring accurate revenue recognition through contract review, monthly revenue analysis, reconciliation of revenue-related accounts, and financial reporting. You will also serve as an escalation point for complex scenarios, collaborating globally with Client Finance and Business Operation Teams to resolve issues, understand results, and uphold company policies.
Must have:
  • Support financial reporting by ensuring accuracy and completeness of revenue during month-end close.
  • Drive improvements in financial success and cash flow by analyzing unbilled labor and expenses.
  • Ensure compliance with Corporate Policies and IFRS 15 by reviewing client contracts.
  • Liaise with General Ledger Controllership Team to understand process impact on financial statements.
  • Assist in preparing documentation for internal reviews and external audits.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance.
  • At least 3 years of related work experience in revenue or general accounting.
  • Ability to research and resolve basic to complex revenue accounting issues, including IFRS 15 application.
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
  • Ability to understand financial results and operational events, applying critical thinking.
  • Microsoft Excel experience, including pivot tables and advanced formulae.
Good to have:
  • Experience with SAP or other revenue recognition software.
  • Exposure to current or previous revenue recognition guidance (IFRS 15, ASC 606, IAS 11, IAS 18, SAB 104, or SOP 81-1, among others).
  • Experience in creating and interpreting ad hoc financial analysis and identifying issues.
  • Ability to work well under pressure and deadlines, multi-task, and be well organised.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in a team.
Perks:
  • 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.

Job Details

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.

Overview

As a Finance Senior Associate specialising in revenue, you will be a member of the Global Revenue Operations Team and centered on assigned Teams in Publicis Sapient International. You will help drive and ensure accurate revenue recognition through review and analysis of client contracts, analysis of monthly revenue, creation and maintenance of reconciliations relating to revenue related accounts, and monthly financial reporting. You will also serve as an escalation point for our Finance Associates, Client Finance, Operations, and Delivery Teams for more complex scenarios.

You will be collaborating and working closely not only with people in your team which span the globe, but also with the Client Finance and Business Operation Teams in London and overseas. You will work to understand issues and research problems, find solutions, perform analyses to understand our results, and help uphold our policies and procedures. You display intellectual curiosity, have a desire to understand how things work, and are excited by change and learning.

Responsibilities

Your impact:

Supporting our financial reporting by ensuring accuracy and completeness of revenue through our month-end close process which includes: analysis of forecasted revenue versus actual results and working with Client Finance to research and resolve issues; creation of manual revenue calculations and reviewing those of Finance Associates as needed; and reconciling revenue related GL accounts.

Driving improvements in our financial success and cash flow by working with our Client Finance and Business Operations Teams through a monthly analysis of unbilled labour and expenses to help facilitate a path to invoicing and collections and improving overall trade working capital.

Ensuring our compliance with Corporate Policies and IFRS 15 by reviewing and analysing client contracts to determine appropriate accounting treatment, ensuring accurate set-up in Salesforce 360 and our bespoke version of SAP, and identifying potential risks and issues. You will also provide revenue oversight, guidance, problem resolution and training to various teams across the company around revenue recognition as you grow and develop in your role.

You will liaise with the General Ledger Controllership Team to understand the impact of our processes on our financial statements for the balance sheet and profit and loss statement creating and analysing monthly reporting, which includes fluctuation analyses on revenue and balance sheet accounts for your assigned ledger, and obtaining details on aged, unbilled revenue and expenses.

Demonstrating our compliance with Corporate Policies and IFRS through assisting in the preparation of documentation and support for internal reviews and external audits.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
  • At least 3 years of related work experience in either a revenue accounting role or general accounting role
  • Ability to research and resolve basic to complex revenue related accounting issues including practical application of IFRS 15
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
  • Ability to understand and infer relationships between financial results and operational and financial events and transactions, and apply critical thinking and detailed analysis
  • Microsoft Excel experience required, including knowledge of pivot tables and advanced formulae

Set Yourself Apart With:

  • Experience with SAP or other revenue recognition software
  • Exposure to current or previous revenue recognition guidance (including IFRS 15, ASC 606, IAS 11, IAS 18, SAB 104, or SOP 81-1, among others)
  • Experience in creating and interpreting ad hoc financial analysis and identifying issues
  • Ability to work well under pressure and deadlines, can multi-task, and be well organised
  • Excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate and work well in a team

Additional information

  • 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

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About The Company

Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, today Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world and a leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, led by Arthur Sadoun, the third CEO in its history.


Publicis Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients’ transformation to enhance personalisation at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organisation, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 98,000 professionals.


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