Finance Director
Full Time
Job Description
- Setting annual budget (and Quarterly Reforecast) targets for business, leading pertinent departmental/business unit heads through the budget process to produce the annual financial budget to be presented to global executive management.
- Building budgeting and forecasting models and further lead the continuous improvements
- Maintain a dynamic monthly financial forecasting model including pipeline analysis and risks/opportunities.
- Support decision making by identifying necessary actionable steps in response to key financial or KPI variances. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to manage ongoing business needs.
- Be a key strategic business partner to the MD and the Heads of Departments
- Partner with accounting in managing monthly and quarterly close processes to ensure accruals and rev rec are accurate.
- Ensure P&L accuracy and variance context is assessed on a timely basis in line with monthly close, operational reviews
- Improve operating teams’ understanding of financial statements with consistent, timely, and actionable analysis. Collaborate with the operating leads to provide recommendations on how to improve profitability and operating efficiency.
- Assessing budget to actuals performance by project and clients across agency operations
- Build, constantly improve and leverage financial and non-financial reporting based on reporting calendars
- Lead resource for financial reporting and the key partner for Corporate Finance and Accounting to achieve automation of reporting such as detailed P&Ls, margin focused project reporting, resource utilization, T&E management, and more for the region
- Ad hoc analysis and projects at request
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Degree in finance, accounting, or other business related field
- 7 or more years of combined accounting, finance and strategic analysis experience
- Demonstrated excellence in financial analysis and model building
- Media & entertainment industry experience preferred
- Advanced excel skills
- Function effectively in an especially fast-paced, high growth operating environment, managing time effectively to address high priority items in a timely manner
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships and communicate with peers, subordinates and executive management.
- A desire to work on different facets of the finance and accounting operations of the company - this is not a role that will just focus on one area
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