Commercial Finances Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Publicis Media is one of Publicis Groupe’s four solution hubs, aligning all of Publicis Groupe’s media agencies and operations.  Publicis Groupe (Euronext Paris Exchange: FR0000130577; CAC 40 index), is the world’s third largest communications group. 

The Publicis Media Data Sciences practice is a global network of agency experts dedicated to ad technology implementation, data accuracy and governance, research, reporting and analytics. Our group is essential to every part of the media campaign development and delivery process that enables all advanced solutions for our clients.

Job Description

We are looking for a self-motivated, independent and detail oriented individual who wants to help support the global business strategy of the practice. The individual we are seeking will support global senior agency and local market executives to help ensure consistent financial reporting and progress towards business goals. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of how financial storytelling drives business strategy, as well as knowledge of financial reporting and commercial models.

In this global role, the candidate will support the global Data Sciences Commercial lead with scaling commercial models for Data Sciences services, ensuring data governance for all aspects of revenue and cost data in various financial reporting systems, compilation of quarterly reports from 20+ markets globally, and supporting the education of all markets on business strategy.

This role is uniquely positioned between finance and business strategy. We are looking for someone eager to use financial knowledge to inform and drive business growth for our practice.

Core responsibilities:

Business Progress Reporting

  • On a quarterly basis, lead the collection of revenue, cost, and business analysis from each of our markets globally and provide global analysis for senior leadership
  • Support the roll out of additional KPIs and/or data sources to be included in reports from the markets

Business benchmark creation and tracking

  • Supporting the education of all markets on business strategy KPIs and benchmarks
  • Work with local Finance teams and Data Science leads to govern the quality and accuracy of the data used for reporting
  • Provide recommendations for reporting improvements (additional KPIs or data sources), including process for inclusion

SalesForce

  • Manage future client opportunities for Data Sciences across markets and clients that are being tracked in SalesForce.
  • Work with account leads and Data Science leads to govern the quality and accuracy of the data inputted into SalesForce
  • Creation of regular reporting on opportunities in SalesForce and integration of these reports into quarterly business progress reports for each market.

Commercial Models and Pitch Support

  • Support the creation, scaling, and education of commercial models for various products and services for Data Sciences across markets and the organization
  • Codifying commercial models to create turnkey proposals for Data Sciences to be included in new business pitches
  • Support for Data Sciences scope and resourcing for new business pitches

Qualifications

  • Business finance experience, including financial reporting and commercial models
  • The ability to understand high level business strategies and support them with concrete data and metrics
  • Strong analytical thinking
  • A knack to articulate business analytics to a variety of audiences 
  • The ability to work seamlessly with multiple teams across various locations and disciplines, navigating key contacts across a large global organization
  • Outstanding skill at managing your own time and able to track your own deadlines
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects at a time
  • Obsession with accuracy
  • Strong critical thinking
  • Experience or a desire to expand experience to global business, working with experts across 20+ markets globally on a regular basis

Bonus if you have:

  • An advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerBI a plus
  • Experience with SalesForce and/or pipeline opportunity management a plus
  • Experience with Data, Reporting, Technology, Analytics, or Research in Marketing and Advertising is a plus

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