Job Description

The role will ensure:

• Delivery of strategic objectives through financial insights & analysis
• Support and challenge of Line of Business owners in optimizing the financial performance of brands / entities in their remit
• Profit optimisation at a Line of Business, client, capability, and brand level
• High forecast accuracy / accountability and ability to steer the organisation through KPIs
• Good financial rigour by challenging & influencing a variety of stakeholders across the business
• Best practice application of commercial finance, forecasting & reporting across the region
• An active network of commercial finance business partners across the region

Key Accountabilities

Budgeting & forecasting

• Drive budgeting & forecasting with EMEA business lead to set challenging but achievable targets
• Set and govern common KPI definitions to allow for effective benchmarking & performance evaluation
• Work with local finance teams to ensure quality of forecasts and consistency in the forecasting process across countries
• Evaluate new business pipeline and key client plans
• Review and analyse actuals to discuss and action with the business leads
• Liaise with Global counterparts to ensure common practices and analysis

Financial analysis

• Partner with Line of Business and functional leads to drive profitability by advising and challenging on financial performance and investment appraisals
• Develop multiyear financial outlook and strategy in collaboration with business leads, EMEA team and global teams
• Optimize margins through benchmarking best practice application
• Identification and realization of opportunities in financial performance
• Review and challenge profitability and commercial plans of key EMEA clients
• Review and challenge functional efficiency with key functional owners
• M&A related analysis and financial integration

Key decision making

• Collect and review key financial decisions proposed by countries and prepare for EMEA / Global Executive sign off, examples are premise lease approvals and key people decisions like hiring decisions, annual salary increase & bonus budgets
• Build, evaluate & track business cases as applicable
• Support M&A analysis with commercial due diligence
• Any other analysis to support decision making as required

Commercial Finance excellence

• Promote and share commercial finance best practices across the region and with global teams
• Run projects as required to ensure efficient and effective reporting on key data points together with the Operations and HR teams at EMEA level
• Work effectively together with the management reporting team and the offshore reporting Center of Excellence

Personal Specification

• Qualified accountant or equivalent commercial finance accreditation with substantial global finance experience in a fast paced, ambitious, and multinational environment, preferably in the media & performance industry
• Proven experience of business partnering and commercial acumen, with proven capability to communicate financial performance to senior stakeholders
• At least 6 years of experience in finance business partnering of which at least 2 within a comparable role
• Strong communication, influencing, collaboration and relationship building skills
• Clear record of being curious, robust and shrewd, driving improved financial performance within a business
• A desire to work in a value driven environment, embracing a culture of energy and the DAN values:

• Agile
• Pioneering
• Ambitious
• Responsible
• Collaborative

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified accountant or equivalent commercial finance accreditation with substantial global finance experience in a fast paced, ambitious, and multinational environment, preferably in the media & performance industry • Proven experience of business partnering and commercial acumen, with proven capability to communicate financial performance to senior stakeholders • At least 6 years of experience in finance business partnering of which at least 2 within a comparable role • Strong communication, influencing, collaboration and relationship building skills • Clear record of being curious, robust and shrewd, driving improved financial performance within a business