Senior Commercial Finance Analyst

About Publicis Groupe

Publicis Groupe, known for its world-renowned creativity, best in class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world’s third largest communications group in the world. With more than 80,000 people in over 100 countries, the Groupe has four Solution hubs: Creative with Publicis Communications, Media with Publicis Media, Digital business transformation with Publicis Sapient, and Health & Wellbeing with Publicis Health.

Since 2014 and the acquisition of Sapient, Publicis Groupe has undergone a profound transformation by scaling a new model connecting data, creativity and technology. We have continued on that journey with the 2019 acquisition of Epsilon to further scale our data led offering and provide true momentum to our clients own transformation.

This model, with a country led approach, is called the “Power of One” and gathers all the capabilities of the Groupe under one roof, putting clients at the core of the organisation.

It breaks down the silos between Publicis Communications, Publicis Media, Publicis Sapient, and Publicis Health making them work seamlessly and efficiently to help clients transform marketing and business at scale.

Never has our vision and drive for Power of One been as demonstrable as in the role of the Global and Regional Client lead. The Publicis Groupe is a brand led organisation powered by data driven global Practices and has our clients at the absolute core of our business. The role of a RCL is essential for driving growth, for understanding and leading our clients own transformation through delivering the true scale our agencies capabilities. A RCL sets the vision, builds a culture of collaboration and curates a team of experts from our whole Groupe to deliver on that promise. They are true leaders with responsibility for revenue, profitability and leading the relationship with our clients. We could not be more committed to delivering excellence and we articulate our approach to that as the following;

Clients Come First; The entire Publicis Groupe transformation was designed to put clients at the center of all we do. Their needs and objectives drive the solutions we provide in order to help them win and grow.

We are Seamless; We have created the powerful role of the Regional Client Leader. One person who acts as one point of access and one point of accountability to tap an 80,000-deep pool of talent - free from silos, legacy, and convention.

We are Frictionless; We have unified P&Ls and removed all operational barriers that enable true collaboration.

We are Modular; The core benefit of our new organization is not only in the depth and range of capability but, more importantly, in our ability to configure situationally; the ability to configure around individual client needs and an open architecture to plug & play world class partners when needed. Modularity is critical as it enables a future proof way for this organization support innovation now and keep pace the changes that show no sign of stopping.

We are United; By fusing together our creative, intelligence, and technology expertise, we are able to provide clients with transformative ideas and consumer experiences, unlike any other agency or holding company in the marketplace.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Commercial business partnering
• Sit with Country Associate Commercial Finance Director to work out client commercial deals, strategic pitch alignments, fee proposals /commercial development.
• Prepare and analyze commercial templates and RFPs and review for client commercial agreements/contracts;
• Control contracts to ensure agreed terms are compliant with Groupe policies;
• Commercial strategy, design thinking, and problem-solving
• Drive controls on client commercials along with timely actions.
• Proactively identifying areas to maximize value and profitability by driving commercial analysis
• Work with the business to identify key risks and opportunities and ensure these are mitigated
• Assess risks involved with new initiatives, ensure deadlines are met and be ready to handle rush pitch requirements.
• With support from FP&A, provide analysis to the Business Leaders and provide insight into opportunities and risks.
• Strategizing for improving profitability by training on Margin management and commercial control
• To implement the commercial SOPs and ensure adherence.
• Quarterly client-level profitability reports; including adhoc cluster profitability simulations as requested,
• Resource/time-project reconciliation
• Client Fees and Contract Management, Monitoring, and Reporting
• Leads client audits.
• Other business unit or client-related ad-hoc reports as requested.
• Support the Country ACFD in other commercial finance initiatives.

As a Sr. Commercial Finance Analyst, your main role is to act as a finance strategist and critical thinker for the business. You will be a core member of the Publicis Groupe -PH Commercial Finance department, working collaboratively with Business, Management, Commercial, F&A, FP&A, Shared services functions to ensure best practice and deliver expertise in a cross-section of financial and commercial activities.

You will build partnerships and maintain strong relationships with the business leadership and their teams. You will be expected to lead financial and commercial matters, influence decision-making, improve business performance, develop and deliver service line strategy, delivering analysis and insights on business opportunities and ways in.

This role involves collaborating with other functions, clients, overseas offices. The role requires good communication, teamwork, leadership and strong analytical and project management skills.