PS|Finance Manager

Location: Via Milano

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.
Overview
As a member of the global Finance team, you will provide expert & collaborative financial partnership to our business leaders through accurate reporting, reliable analysis and actionable insight to support decision making for sustainable and profitable growth. You will work closely with the Market Leadership Team (MLT) to support the management of the operations in their geographical market, in concert with our Global/Regional Industry and Capability leaders and supported by regional teams across Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA), Controllership and Client Finance.

The Finance Manager reports to both their Market Lead and the Regional CFO in a matrix environment. The individual must be able to set appropriate priorities, manage a team for maximum efficiency and effectiveness, communicate well with senior management, peers, clients and business partners, and have a high level of computer aptitude and business sense.
Responsibilities
Your Impact:
Financial Planning & Analysis – Anticipate opportunities/risks and initiate actions to achieve financial objectives

Prepare the annual financial plan, taking into account business initiatives, investments, analysis of prior period trends and overall financial objectives
Analyze actual performance against key benchmarks and highlight any areas requiring action to the MLT as well as the regional FPA team
Prepare rolling forecasts as needed to maintain visibility on full year financial expectations
Provide MLT with information regarding financial and operational performance of individual business segments against internal KPIs

Financial Operations – Work with delivery and operations team to maximize profitability and optimize operational performance for the geographical market

Provide accurate, timely and meaningful information and financial counsel to MLT and other key stakeholders to assess financial risk/benefit of operational initiatives and actions
Provide "what if" analysis to MLT, with corresponding financial impact
Support pricing negotiations (with Commercial Strategy Team and Client Finance team as applicable), preparation of client SOWs, profitability analysis and reporting, contract maintenance and client-required reporting and reconciliation
Work with business leads and Commercial Strategy Team as needed on the commercial portion of new business pitches including: RFP responses, pitch budget management and price modeling
Provide operational analysis to management (ie client profitability, capacity management, etc)
Ensure that financial operations across separate locations and/or business segments are delivering incremental value and/or financial efficiencies
Liaise with Shared Service Center for key operational areas (ie, Real Estate, Supplier Procurement, Legal, Treasury, etc)
Assess and prepare requests for all financial operation activities requiring approval, including capital expenditures, consultancy arrangements, real estate, etc.
Ensure that financial systems are properly set up and optimally utilized by the organization

Financial Reporting/Controllership – Support regional Financial Reporting and Controllership teams to ensure that monthly reporting is performed accurately, completely and timely

Review transactional accounting performed by Shared Service Center accounting department
Support analysis of all subjective areas of financial reporting, particularly revenue recognition (together with Global Revenue…