Senior Manager, Global FP&A

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.

Job Description

Publicis Sapient is looking for highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager, Global FP&A to join our dynamic Finance team. As a part of a growing agency, you will leverage your exceptional problem-solving abilities, Excel skills, demonstrated expertise in generating actionable analytics, and unwavering commitment to achieving tangible results and accuracy. Through the combination of creative and strategic thinking, and a focus on the smallest details, the efforts of the Global  Financial Reporting team have a significant impact on the company’s results. This position will be an experienced 
finance leader possessing strong project management skills, with a passion for creating actionable analytics and a desire to achieve exceptional results in a fast paced environment.

Your Impact:

• Provide guidance and work closely with Global CFO and Senior leadership through analysis of company operations and by providing financial reporting as a basis for strategic decisions and improving operating performance
• Collaborate and provide direction, guidance, mentorship and prioritization to country level reporting teams
  • Ensure efficiency and consistency of planning across divisions 
  • Provide thorough recommendations to solve business issues and implement “best practices”
  • Prioritize and streamline tasks to ensure accuracy of financial information that is being shared across the organization at different levels
• Support Global CFO to co-ordinate all information gathering including KPI and other metrics
  • Report financial risks and provide insight on financial implications of change
  • Drive best practices in financial reporting and the global consolidation process
  • Assist in the preparation of various presentations or supporting materials
  • Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties as assigned
• Monthly, Quarterly and Annual financial analysis (Budget, Forecast and Actuals)
  •  Participate in month-end financial statement reviews for accuracy 
  • Partner with the regional and local Controllership teams in monthly and quarterly closes to understand and be able to explain all significant variances to budget/forecast
  • Scrutinize forecasted expenses to understand their substantiation, and ensure expenditure by nature is on track
• Lead initiatives, including model building and refining, forecasting, and other in-depth analyses from start to finish
  • Develop solid working understanding of the company’s planning and reporting tools (HFM, Oracle and SAP)
  • Extensive modeling to predict growth, conversion, profitability, capacity and cash flows, as well as, potential opportunities and risks
  • Ensure financial standards and verify finance teams are preparing financial information using approved 
    company financial reporting tools & procedures

Qualifications

Your Skills and Experience:

▪ 7 to 10 years of experience within FP&A or Financial/Management Reporting

▪ Experience in leading projects and tracks of work through to completion

▪ Committed, detail oriented, self-starter with strong problem solving and interpersonal skills, with the ability to 

work independently

▪ Ability to meet deadlines and work in time sensitive environments

▪ Excellent communication skills to clearly and accurately convey complex metrics and analysis to internal teams 

and all levels of management

▪ Demonstrated ability to theorize, develop and refine creative financial/operational models 

▪ Experience in leading projects and tracks of work through to completion

▪ Perceptive discernment to identify problems, understand and be able to explain variances, evaluate consistency 

of financial information reported by agencies and calculate and project results

▪ Proficiency in interpreting financial results and key ratios to analyze and project trends

▪ Executive presence necessary to work with senior level management

▪ Strong Excel skills including experience with financial/operational model building 

▪ Hyperion Financial Manager and/or Oracle experience preferred 

▪ Thrive under pressure and deadlines in a fast paced organization

Additional Information

Pay Range: $108,000 - $210,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
16 paid holidays throughout the year
Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
Tuition reimbursement 
Corporate gift matching program 

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@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.