Senior Associate Client Finance

Company description

About Publicis Sapient

Most companies in the AI era do one of two things: they advise, or they sell you a tool. We do both. Publicis Sapient is a technology company that provides enterprise AI platforms and services, which means we build our own AI platforms and bring the strategists, product thinkers, designers and engineers who make them work inside the world's most complex businesses. It's where people and products shape the future of enterprise, and where your ideas actually reach the organizations that run the world. If you want to question how things are done, learn continuously and do the best work of your career alongside 20,000 people across 28 countries, you're in the right place. Come build with us.

Our Commitment to Inclusive Hiring

We are committed to fostering and encouraging an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone and we believe great talent comes from many different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. That's why we're committed to creating a hiring process where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed and feel safe. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities including: race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion and value the diverse experiences, perspectives, and strengths they bring to our teams.

If there's anything we can do to make our recruitment process more accessible or comfortable for you, please let us know. We're happy to provide reasonable adjustments throughout the application and interview process. You can contact us anytime at [email protected].

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Overview


Qualifications

• Provide weekly revenue estimation, understand, and communicate key risks and opportunities to the wider business.
• Analyze monthly results and communicate the drivers of variances to forecast to feed into P&L reviews with both finance leadership and Client Services and Project.
• Identify and flag potential areas of risk to senior team members and participate in development of solutions to mitigate those risks
• Understand how factors such as pricing, contract structure, accounting treatment and staffing mix impact project and client profitability.
• Use quarterly results and profit modelling analysis to maintain a full year profitability outlook at client level.
• Identify plans to manage risks and improve profitability at a client and project level and partner with Client Services and Project Management Teams to implement.
• Partner with Controllership and Revenue teams to support monthly and quarterly closes. Understand and be able to explain all significant variances to forecast.
• Collect and analyze inputs from Client Services teams to inform quarterly forecast and annual target setting process. Understand and flag the risks and opportunities at a client level and their impact on industry revenue and profitability.
• Partner with other teams both within and outside Finance to ensure financial data and reporting is consistent and accurate.
• Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties assigned.

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