Publicis Groupe, known for its world-renowned creativity, best in class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group in the world. With more than 80,000 people in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis.Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Key Responsibilities:

Month End

• Preparation of monthly management accounts for Global Services entities, across all recharges and cost aspects.
• Headcount reconciliation, salary reconciliation and journal postings monthly. Liaison with relevant Payroll and HR team for any variations or missing information on the payroll report.
• Responsibility of a monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Supporting with all Groupe reporting requests (flash, short-term-forecast, variance analysis, resolving mismatch, other).

Forecasting / Budget

• Assisting with the annual budget & periodic forecasting processes, including liaison with relevant stakeholders & upload of budget/forecasts into HFM (Groupe reporting tool)
• Costs recovery, payroll forecasting and reconciliation
• Monthly P&L rolling forecast preparation by entity
• Preparation/calculation of a monthly salary recharges schedule based on monthly payroll by entity and distributed to the respective agencies Finance team i.e., Obtain POs, Reporting for Commit, RFs, and Actuals and Mismatch queries.
• Take ownership of the monthly rolling forecast, updating confirmed and pipeline personnel costs and recharges.

Other

• Responsibility of CSR/ESG Quarterly Reporting
• PSA / P11D submissions
• Daily liaison with Re:Sources (shared service centre, SSC)
• Assisting the Audit and compliance processes
• Ad-hoc projects as required
• Adherence to Groupe FMC policies, reporting and deadlines.

Personal & Team Accountabilities

• Actively develop and maintain strong working relationships with all Global Services personnel and internal/external at an interpersonal level.
• Be responsible and reliable.
• Be a proactive team player.

Key relationships (Internal &/or External):

Need to have the ability develop and maintain strong working relationships and communication

A background in Finance & Accounting

Skills (including technology)

• Good Microsoft office skills, especially in excel and outlook.
• Clear understanding of accounting concepts and processes
• Strong communication/presentation skills required
• Thorough with excellent attention to detail
• Responding efficiently & promptly to queries
• Willingness to engage with & support the business in general
• SAP knowledge and understanding of Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Billing, Accounts Receivable process.
• Good time management skills.
• Hyperion experience a plus

Attributes/behaviours:

• Self-starter with a problem-solving attitude
• Can do attitude with accuracy and an attention to detail.
• Well-Organised and methodical.
• Friendly, open personality.
• Able to multitask.
• Can be a time-pressured environment hence need to able to prioritise workload accordingly and handle last minute requests.
• Resilience and the ability to remain calm under pressure