Senior Manager, Client Finance

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Senior Manager of Finance

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Senior Manager of Finance to join our team of solutions-oriented innovators. You’ll use your data analytics, business acumen, and financial modeling skill set to improve operational effectiveness across the finance teams, which collectively support our business. We are on a mission to transform the world, and you will be instrumental in shaping how we do it with your ideas, thoughts, and solutions.

Your Impact:

• Support the business leadership team in driving financial and operating health of the industry -- become the point of contact and escalation for items related to client financial performance, forecasting, budgeting, and business operations.
• Partner with Business Leads to drive for success against key objectives and targets while understanding key business drivers and financial metrics that push PS business forward.
• Lead client finance and business operations team through day-to-day and period close activities across multiple geographies, enabling operational efficiencies and optimizing financial performance.
• Lead and build financial analyses and operation strategies, forecasting future performance, annual commitment processes, and deriving insights to manage and implement improvement/changes required to grow our business portfolio.
• Provide monthly P&L analysis and lead quarterly business reviews for the industry, highlighting key performance drivers, revenue and margin analysis, variance to commitment, and risks/opportunities.
• Lead planning and re-forecasting programs, commercial negotiation strategies, and TWC support, providing insight into business drivers and their impact to land on target deliverables.
• Collaborate closely with various teams (Capacity, Controllership, Legal, Financial Reporting, Delivery Sales) to deliver complete/accurate financial results and improve operational effectiveness.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• Extensive professional history of working in financial management, particularly commercial and change management
• 7-10 years of professional experience working in Finance/Accounting, preferably within Professional Services, Technology, or Consulting industries
• Thorough understanding of financial systems, database platforms, and financial planning/modeling tools
• Proven track record of strong problem resolution and successfully driving processes that improve ways of working across teams
• Ability to self-start and self-direct work in an unstructured environment, and effective at driving solutions and results amid ambiguity and change
• Experience in data analysis with the ability to synthesize and connect data to tell the story from a business and operational perspective

Set Yourself Apart With:

• CPA Certifications or MBA and progressive leadership experience
• Excellent (verbal, written, presentation) communication skills to convey complex metrics and analysis clearly and accurately to internal teams and all levels of management.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills – with the ability to establish trust quickly, build relationships, and influence decision-making across multiple levels
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results under tight timelines
• Excel at working with and building world-class globally dispersed teams

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy: time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 15 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Corporate gift matching program

Additional Information

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.