Associate Director, Fp&A

Company Description
Part of the Business Intelligence (BI) team within Publicis US Marketing Services (USMS), the Associate Director, FP&A supports forecasting and financial analysis for a variety of business units including Leo Burnett Group. Key contact person in financial reporting, analysis, and data integrity between agency finance and Publicis Groupe Creative HQ. Reports to Regional Director, FP&A and Client Reporting and manages analyst or senior analysts within small FP&A team.
Job Description
Forecasting and Budgeting

• Facilitates recurring forecast process between Business Unit (BU) Finance Directors and Publicis HQ
• Creates financial models and tools for forecast process and analysis of actual financial results
• Understand drivers of financial results to advise BU Finance Directors on key issues
• Validates and submits data through Groupe financial software Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
• Partners with Publicis shared services and other divisions to align forecasts and reporting
• Develop expertise in financial software (HFM & Anaplan) to regularly update data and distribute financial reports
• Support BU Finance Directors on analysis and ad-hoc requests

Analysis

• Analyze monthly and annual financial results, providing commentary on variances to forecast
• Partner with Accounting, Finance Directors, and shared services providers to understand financial results
• Assists in validating month-end data during close, investigating discrepancies and resolving across teams
• Participates in complex financial reporting changes such as carve outs and systems integrations
• Extract and summarize data from HFM financial software to assist leadership team

Headcount Reporting and Employee Data

• Uses Anaplan software to complete month end headcount (HC) reconciliations per Publicis policies
• Provides employee data to Finance Directors ensuring attributes like department and cost center are captured correctly and reported in line with Publicis policies each month.

General & Administrative (G&A) costs

• Oversee monthly reporting of G&A costs to senior level budget holders across different departments.

Management Reporting

• Supports Finance and Executive leadership by compiling and analyzing data to create business insights
• Assists with presentations (charts, graphs, etc) of financial information to agency leadership
• Creates reports to highlight trends and evaluate business performance against expectations and historical data
• Works with partners to maintain Publicis Groupe reporting schedule and deadlines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, or similar field
• 7+ years of work experience in financial reporting and/or analysis with focus on P&L
• Chicago office 3x/wk hybrid schedule
• Strong technical skills, especially Microsoft Excel (lookups, Pivot Tables, etc.)
• Effective communication skills with executive level
• Excellent organizational, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work with confidential information professionally and discretly
• Ability to maintain and grow positive stakeholder relationships
• Experience with Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Anaplan, or SAP a plus but not required

Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.