Senior Financial Analyst | Immediate Joiners Only

About the role

We are seeking a long-term partnership. You will become a full member of our Reporting Team. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will actively manage and oversee our monthly financial statements and serve as a connector between Finance Business Partners and Agency- /Brand Management. The success of this role will depend on a number of factors:

• Working in conjunction with the Head of Reporting
• Developing and fostering reliable relationships within the finance team (commercial & reporting)
• Strong communication skills (open and proactive communication with your stakeholders)
• Operating effectively within a matrix organization
• The ability to adapt to and the passion for tackling new challenges.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• In strong collaboration with the Shared Service Center (SSC) teams, you will prepare monthly financial statements and subsequent reporting to IPG following US GAAP for your agency, combining strong knowledge of revenue recognition principles, cost controlling procedures and balance sheet presentation
• You will gain a deep understanding of all client contracts relevant to your agency, as well as their impact on all revenue, cost and compliance related matters important to your internal control function within the Finance team
• You will be involved in the creation of the annual budget as well as of revised annual forecasts by collecting, processing and analyzing various sorts of information points with regard to revenue and costs
• By providing accurate and well-analyzed financial information, you will enable your Reporting team leads, Finance Business Partners as well as Agency Management to make successful and efficient decision making
• You will successfully adapt to new systems and tools ensuring that your agency is in line with all requirements raised by IPG, the network or by internal stakeholders
• You will play an active role in answering ad hoc requests raised by the various Business teams to the Reporting teams ticket queue
• You will be an integral and equal member of the Mediabrands Germany Reporting team. Living effective team collaboration and providing valuable team support are key to your way of working within a multi disciplined and international team

Qualification

• 3-4 years of work experience in a similar position where you successfully applied your accounting knowledge and its impact on financial planning and analysis
• - Good understanding of financial reporting processes in an international corporation, including professional knowledge of internal process and control requirement frameworks (SOX)
• Curious mind who is always eager to question existing things, coupled with very good analytical thinking skills.
• Ability to understand complex relationships and adapt them to future business needs
• Good knowledge of MS Office applications (especially Excel) and have already gained experience in using SAP/R3, Hyperion or similar financial reporting tools
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills with skills in SAP/R3, Oracle Hyperion and MS PowerBI being very beneficial.
• Good communication skills, both in verbal and written forms of communication