Billings Coordinator, FINANCE – LONDON

EssenceMediacom is GroupM’s newest and largest agency, committed to delivering marketing breakthroughs for brands. It has disrupted the old models across media, creative, innovation and analytics to find new opportunities for advertisers and deliver truly integrated media solutions.

Born out of two pioneering agencies, EssenceMediacom fuses Essence’s performance, data, analytics, and creative technology DNA with MediaCom’s scaled multichannel audience planning and strategic media expertise.

As part of WPP, the world's largest marketing communications services group, and GroupM, WPP’s consolidated media investment management arm, we have access to the richest data, most robust benchmarks, and most advanced capabilities in the market. This helps us provide comprehensive solutions to all marketing challenges.

Our ‘breakthrough’ ambition is underpinned by our commitment to ‘continuous learning.’ We aim to ensure our people fulfil their potential by investing in their whole-person wellbeing, careers, and capabilities, which in turn helps grow our clients’ businesses.

EssenceMediacom, with 10,000 people across 120 offices in 96 markets, is one of the world’s leading communications specialists, with billings of more than US$21 billion (Source: COMvergence, 2021). Its global client roster includes adidas, Coca-Cola (TCCC), Dell, Google, Hasbro, Mars, NBC Universal, P&G, Richemont, Shell, Sony, and Uber.

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Reports to: SENIOR CLIENT FINANCE ANALYST

The role

Support the CFA Manager/ Senior CFA on the International Division of Mediacom.

Accountabilities include:

• To work closely with various stakeholders to help manage the Unbilled and Debtors process.
• Working with stakeholders to assist with resolving client billing and related issues.
• To prepare ad-hoc client reconciliations.
• To work with the senior CFA to provide best practice training across the business.
• To assist in NWC preparation monthly.
• To assist in client audits within the agency.

• Assist with the SOX and year-end audit by providing all relevant information to the auditors.
• Assist in coordinating internal SOX control testing.
• Other ad-hoc tasks.

A bit about your skills and experience:

•Establish strong and positive relationships with both internal and external colleagues

•Open and approachable to others

•Shares thoughts about own strengths and limitations

•To be knowledgeable and accountable on the tasks that they carry out

•Attention to detail

•Team player

•Good accounting understanding

•Ability to solve problems

•Flexible approach to role and requirements

•Works productively in a high-pressure environment

•Strong analytical skills

•High level of accuracy

•            System skills in Microsoft Excel/Word/Outlook

•            The desire to learn and progress

Key Performance Indicators:

•Being able to meet deadlines

•To produce accurate information

•To actively seek to implement automated tools

•Understands the importance of prioritising tasks