Analyst, FP&A

Publicis Groupe, known for its award-winning creativity, best-in-class technology, digital and consulting expertise, is the world's third largest communications group. With 80,000+ colleagues 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.

About the role

This role supports business unit Finance Directors and agency leadership through financial forecasting, budgeting, management reporting, and ad hoc analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support business unit Finance Directors in creating regular financial forecasts in line with Publicis Groupe schedule.
• Analyze monthly and annual financial results, providing commentary on variances to forecast.
• Ensure accuracy of information in Groupe financial software (Hyperion Financial Management – HFM & Anaplan).
• Develop expertise in financial software to regularly update data and distribute financial reports.
• Share information to support strategic planning across Finance and other departments.
• Provide monthly reporting of G&A costs to budget holders across different departments.
• Work across agency to get costs coded to proper account and budget.
• Analyze actual costs to budget and understand variances and key drivers.
• Support Finance and Executive leadership by compiling and analyzing data to create business insights.
• Assist with presentations (charts, graphs, etc.) of financial information to agency leadership.
• Create reports to highlight trends and evaluate business performance against expectations and historical data.
• Support agency leadership by providing data and analysis to solve business problems.
• Extract and summarize data from Groupe financial software to assist leadership team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting.
• Chicago office 4x/wk hybrid schedule.
• Relevant internship experience and/or 1+ years of work experience considered.
• Strong technical skills, especially Microsoft Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables, etc.).
• Effective communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable digging through large volumes of reporting for key operational findings.
• Ability to maintain and grow positive stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team environment.

Benefits

• Medical coverage, dental, and vision.
• Disability insurance.
• 401K retirement plan.
• Parental and family care leave.
• Family forming assistance.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Flexible time off.

Pay

USD $50,065.00 - USD $66,360.00 per year.

Schedule

4x per week hybrid schedule in the Chicago office.