Worldwide Senior Analyst

at  GroupM

EXPERIENCE:

• Qualified Accountant
• Post-qualification experience
• Worked in a large multinational group business
• Financial accounting, systems, and processes - (Preferable) BFC reporting building and retrieving
• Effective communication and influencing skills
• Interacted with senior leadership stakeholders in large organisations
• Highly motivated and analytical, with excellent Excel, numeracy, attention to detail, and problem solving

PERSONAL CAPABILITIES;

• Driven with the ability to self motivate.
• A straight talker, with a high degree of emotional intelligence and resilience
• A team player who is collaborative and makes decisions after due discussion.
• A robust, resilient individual who embraces challenges and change
• Strong persuasive and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to deliver outcomes, not just process driver.
• Ego’s to be left at the door. GroupM UK is not hierarchical and operates a one team culture

• Provide the analysis to support the management of WW overhead unit P&Ls (increasing significantly this year) including:
• Collating and reviewing the inputs from multiple senor leadership budget holders to put together a forecast for both the UK and US WW overhead units
• Providing the analysis to facilitate the overview commentary versus comparable periods including, budget, prior year and prior forecast for Overhead P&Ls monthly and upon reforecast
• Review and update the forecasts of both the UK and US WW units with monthly actualisation to review, question and report back to the WW Finance Director on significant variations or changes to forecast
• Continue to review and improve the existing processed and systems to drive transformation within the WW function
• Coordinate with WPP IT to ensure consistency of reporting to other areas of the business
• Monthly accruals review
• Ad hoc projects could take up to 25% – 30% of the role including supporting other areas of the GroupM WW function and reporting