Senior Analyst, Global Commercial Finance

Job title: Senior Analyst, Global Commercial 

Group: Mindshare Worldwide

Reports to: Associate Director, Global Commercial
 

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What We Can Offer You

At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer.

Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London – a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends!

We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development, there’s a wide range of options to suit everyone at all levels of your career.

Our Values & Behaviours

Our new values, of Energy, Empathy and Impact not only align with our Good Growth ambition but represent our commitment and dedication to our people, helping them grow their careers, fostering creativity, embracing humanity, and changing the world. At Mindshare we are open to difference. We believe in being open and supportive of our people and all their differences to help them succeed. Be different at Mindshare and use your difference to shape the world through media.

Our Commitment

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Global Commercial

The Global Commercial Finance Team plays a critical role in supporting a company’s financial and strategic objectives by working at the intersection of Finance, Media services, and media pricing on a global scale.

The Role

The candidate will report to the Associate Director, Global Commercial. Working as part of the Global Commercial and Finance team, you will support the GCFAD (Global Client Finance Associate Director) with their role of partnering the Managing Partner responsible for the overall Client relationship through reporting, financial and commercial analysis, and commercial operations.

As a part of the wider Commercial team, which encompasses not just the commercial function but also the audit, compliance and legal function an element of the Senior Analyst, Commercial Global role is to support the whole team by ensuring key markets data is always kept up to date. Additionally, there may be occasions when the audit or legal team would require assistance with a simple task.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an experience Senior Analyst, Commercial Global who will play an instrumental role in further ensuring accurate and timely reporting for client and agency stakeholders.

In this role, you will work closely with commercial and finance colleagues across various markets
The ideal candidate will have proven experience of successfully analysing a P&L, consolidating data from various sources. They will demonstrate knowledge of financial reporting tools and excel functions as well as developing reporting templates.
 

Essential Criteria

• Experience building financial reports
• Advanced experience using Excel (unpivoting data bases, power pivot, power query, charts and graphs, pivot tables, formulas)
• Proactive approach to expanding knowledge and capabilities
  • Demonstrates a willingness to learn about the media industry to ensure full understanding of required tasks. 
  • Possess a general understanding of the economic and industry specific implications and developments for Mindshare and our clients.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail:
  • Analytically minded with an aptitude for handling large data sets in order to identify trends and actionable insights
  • Ability to process and, most of all, interpret financial data in support of commercial decisions.
  • Possess a natural attention to detail and ability to digest information from a wide variety of sources.
  • Open-minded, able to develop and assess different options and solutions.
• Able to communicate effectively and work as part of a wider, cross-capability team
• Willingness to help with all tasks required to be completed

Responsibilities

• Manage the whole process of collecting from all markets, query by variance analysis, correct where necessary or advise markets on corrections necessary
• Consolidate when finalised all market report, aggregate financial data from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive view for each market
• Ensuring an accurate and complete summary of all markets is available
• Collect and consolidate adhoc client reporting per contract requirement: remuneration, AVBs, Seo,
• Coordinate data collection and reports from markets, facilitate communication between markets to ensure timely and consistent data collection
• Manage day to day relation with markets contacts, be the point of contact for markets and commercial team members
• Key contact list for the markets to be maintained to ensure is accurate at and reliable at all times.
• Ensure the annual WPP FX rates are received and prepared and shared with markets (via Commercial intranet site) at the start of each year.
• Ensure FX rates are updated in each client report
• Complete client reporting and analyse financial KPIs extracting insight in order to provide recommendations for future reports
• Ensure any changes to the legal status/ownerships of markets is up to date
• Effectively manage your workload, and submit deliverables to your manager within deadlines

Key Behaviours and Knowledge

Support the team with tasks, providing guidance where needed

• Effectively communicate with your manager, and group commercial contacts regarding deadlines and delivery of work
• Very strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating on daily basis the ability to succinctly communicate with finance and non-finance people alike and to accommodate language and cultural differences.
• Strong listening skills and ability to process verbal information.
• Proven verbal and written communicator who can measure the requirements of different audiences and adapts his / her communication style accordingly.
• Willingness and ability to involve others and use informal/virtual teams to complete tasks.
• Highly self-motivated, flexible and possess a high level of initiative.  Takes ownership of issues and personal development.
• Awareness of own skills, weakness and strengths and proactivity in developing other skills.
• Ability to prioritise and complete tasks to deadlines.
• Ability to manage parallel workloads
• Anticipates issues and takes proactive action to avoid problems.
• Organised and able to efficiently juggle a wide range of priorities.
• Understanding of SOX obligations, Accounting Standards and Business Control Environments.
• Good all-round IT skills for analysing and presenting information– must be proficient in excel.
• Ability and willingness to build strong relationship with the senior members of the team to become dependable and reliable members of the commercial team.

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