Finance Senior Associate

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

The Finance Senior Associate will report and analyze the monthly revenue of several teams within Sapient. The Finance Senior Associate is responsible for monthly revenue calculations and reconciliations of related accounts using Oracle Financials as part of the monthly financial close process.  The Finance Senior Associate will also review and analyze client contracts for proper revenue recognition treatment. In addition to the revenue calculation process will also be involved in forecast variance analysis.  The successful candidate will work closely with people across the organization to understand both revenue accounting issues and various financial analyses.

Your Impact:

• Execute month-end/quarter-end close processes including revenue calculations, journal entries, account reconciliations, and review and adjustment of revenue related accounts
• Provide revenue oversight, guidance, problem resolution and training to various teams across the company, including project teams, finance staff, and corporate legal team
• Read and interpret Sapient’s client contracts and determine appropriate accounting treatment in accordance with relevant IFRS guidance
• Assist in financial operations management and financial planning and analysis for     select teams
• Revenue forecast/actual variance creation and analysis
• Provide finance management with various analyses of revenue and related balance sheet impacts on an ad-hoc basis.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

Experience Guidelines:

• 5-8 years of related work experience in either a revenue accounting or general accounting role
• Experience creating and interpreting ad hoc financial analysis
• Ability to research and resolve basic to complex revenue related accounting issues including application of IFRS accounting standards, among others
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to understand and infer relationships between metrics and operational and financial processes

Education/Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• MBA in Finance or M.com Required
• Chartered Accountancy Intermediate level pass out preferred
• Work well under pressure and deadlines
• Strong Excel experience required, including work with pivot tables and advanced formulas
• Oracle Project Accounting a plus
• Effective communication skills to various levels of management.

Others:

• Shift timings 2pm – 11pm

Additional information

Benefits of Working Here:

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year.
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well-being.