Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Publicis Sapient is looking for highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager Financial Reporting, specializing in our Strategy capacity, 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.
Your Impact:

• Provide guidance and analysis of company operations through financial reporting as a basis for strategic decisions and improving operating performance
• Subject matter expert on all items related to forecasting, budgeting, and operations
• Monthly, Quarterly and Annual financial analysis (Budget, Forecast and Actuals)
• Support business reviews for planning and re-forecasting on an on-going basis, providing thought leadership around business drivers and their impact, understanding full P&L
• Coordinates with Re:Sources team on outstanding receivables and processing payables
• 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
• Collaborate and provide direction and guidance
• Ensure efficiency and consistency of planning across divisions
• Effectively partner with representatives from other internal departments across the organization to ensure financial perspectives are considered in broader initiatives
• Provides ongoing analysis and recommendations for necessary tools, processes or systems required to improve financial analysis. Is proactive in implementing recommendations in a timely manner
• Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, and effective at driving solutions and results amid ambiguity and change
• Support Senior Director to co-ordinate all information gathering including KPI and other metrics
• Ensures business is running smoothly and efficiently in terms of financial processes and operations
• Creates and delivers management reports on key initiatives, metrics, opportunities and risks.
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of all reports in compliance with Group's deadline.
• Ad hoc analysis, projects, and other duties as assigned
• Support and build budget/commitment process, financial analyses and operation strategies, forecasting future performance and deriving insights to manage and implement improvement/changes required
• Collaborate with team in the NYC office at least 3 days per week

Qualifications
Your Skills and Experience:

• 3 years minimum managing Financial teams
• 7-10 years minimum in FP&A or Financial/Management Reporting
• Data driven and excellent attention to detail
• HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) /Smartview experience is a must have.
• Oracle and SAP experience would be a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, including experience in financial/operational model building.
• Experience in reviewing financial data & identifying errors.
• Ability to prioritize and effective time management skills.
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor's in Finance, Accounting or Business.

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
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 65 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.
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.