Finance Manager at Dentsu in Bangalore

Job description

We are looking for a Finance Manager who is eager to work on several strategic client accounts. This position is ideal for an individual with 10 to 15 years of operational and controllership finance experience within an agency environment. This person will work closely with the Finance Controller, Sr. Finance Business Partner and FP&A analyst. The purpose of this role is to perform and support the higher risk standard financial reporting and control activities required each month, quarter and year-end as well as supervise the execution of lower risk activities. The lead will be part of RTR team based out of Bangalore and will act as a subject matter expert and work closely with the reporting manager to support and provide services to ensure a smooth month-end process and strengthen the control environment. She/he will need to collaborate with multiple groups of stakeholders and will have to manage day-to-day operations, month-end closure activities and other related activities. Job Description: Key Responsibilities · Support Regional cluster FC in managing the Monthly/Quarterly/YE financial reporting and controllership activities. · Support key Controllership activities like Month-end closure (MEC) including P&L, Balance Sheet and CPS finalization and close the finance cube on time. · Ensure accurate delivery of BPC reporting across Interco, Finance, CPS and other required applications. · Prepare BS summary of the observations, monitor & share it with regional stakeholders resolve all the findings · Support on the review / analysis of the NWC & Cash forecast – checking cash conversion and helping with the changes required by markets. · Responsible for maintaining updated Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). · Manage ad hoc requirements and projects on financial control & compliance areas. · Collaborate with multiple teams including Regional, GFRC, Market, Operational finance etc. · Support Group reporting requirements on stravis for Regional Markets. · Prepare BS flux and variances analysis for regional markets and share with markets to get the comments for same. · Using a standard approach to help markets in forecasting BS during RF/budget cycles · Support on the review / analysis of the NWC & Cash forecast position and provide comments in collaboration with markets and prepare finance control dashboard. · Monitoring of Group / Regional KPI adherence and proactively engage with Market users/new joiners to explain group reporting requirements, policies, COA and BPC/SAC submissions requirements to minimize the group queries. · Training and mentorship – involvement in training and mentoring junior resource and establish a training pillar within Regional to cover processes, systems, and reporting requirements and best practices. · Interact with stakeholders (FD’s /Client Finance/ Finance Controller) to understand requirements, set expectations, address concerns, and discuss them with reporting manager. · Deliver timely and error-free reports, KPI dashboards, non-compliance reports and other key process metrics to the stakeholders. · Supporting the Manager in external audit process e.g., gathering documentation for the organization’s procedures/other audit supporting materials · Act as a change agent and drive process improvements and automation initiatives by challenging the status quo. · Partnering with Finance business partners /onshore finance teams to: Ensure all activities are completed as per the timelines and accurate reporting of financials. · Delivers accurate and reliable output from specific tasks during monthly, quarterly and annual reporting processes. · Maintains a working relationship with other teams and stakeholders in other finance pillars. Provides technical analysis and advice to key partners appropriate to experience and working within the team to solve complex problems. · Supports control and reporting compliance including support in preparing technical accounting memos. · Supports the audit process, liaisi