Finance Analyst
The Client Finance Analyst will support the Sr. Finance Manager in the day-to-day commercial finance responsibilities including but not limited to client/product/job set up, production invoices and ad hoc reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform substantive due diligence investigation on all new prospective clients
- Set up and maintain client and product codes
- Use Workday to create jobs according to client contracts and agreed upon billing schedules
- Assess each client contract to determine proper revenue recognition and presentation, and maintain revenue schedules in Workday
- Coordinate intercompany billing for projects involving sister agencies
- Perform the month end revenue reconciliation to ensure clients were billed according to the contract, revenue was appropriately recognized and calculate any necessary accruals/deferrals
- Support overall budgeting and re-forecasting efforts
- Maintain compliance with Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR)
- Proactively document and follow up on any billing, invoicing, or payment issues that pertain to clients
- Monitor Accounts/Payable activities, ensuring supplier invoices are processed and help to resolve supplier inquiries.
- Review WIP and provide comments for month end balances and ensure WIP items are cleared timely
- Review Workday to determine completeness of timesheets and prepare, analyze, and review quarterly labor analysis
Qualifications:
- Minimum 2 years' experience in finance and accounting
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business OR equivalent professional experience
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Detail-oriented with ability to see big picture and work on diverse projects
- Self-starter, highly motivated and able to work to their own initiative
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Exceptional Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel
- Experience with Workday is a plus
- Experience with Salesforce is a plus
About Gain Theory
Gain Theory is a global marketing effectiveness consultancy within the WPP network. We help marketers unlock business growth by providing pragmatic marketing recommendations, fueled by robust data, state-of-the-art analytics and a 40+ year heritage in marketing effectiveness. Gain Theory has 200+ marketing effectiveness consultants, analysts, data experts and engineers operating around the world and is well integrated with our WPP partners, but we operate 100% independently to provide our clients with deep insights and measurement into Marketing performance and analytics strategy uninfluenced by other WPP agency execution.
$55,000 - $65,000 USD
WPP (Gain Theory) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.