PS|Senior Associate Finance|GRO

Senior Associate Finance

This role is for a Senior Associate to join the Global Revenue Operations Team (GRO) in India, focussed on supporting revenue recognition for the Financial Services & Health industries of Publicis Sapient EMEA. You will help ensure accurate revenue recognition through review of client contracts, analysis of monthly revenue, as well as creation and maintenance of reconciliations relating to revenue related accounts. 

You will be collaborating and working closely not only with people within the GRO team but also with the Client Finance and Business Operation Teams in the India and overseas. You will also serve as an escalation point for our other finance teams on any revenue issues related to our EMEA clients. You will work to understand issues and research problems, find solutions, perform analyses to understand our results, and help uphold our policies and procedures. 

Your Impact:

• Supporting our financial reporting by ensuring accuracy and completeness of revenue through our month-end close process which includes analysis of forecasted revenue versus actual results and working with the Client Finance team to research and resolve issues.
• Driving improvements in our financial success and cash flow by working with our Client Finance and Business Operations Teams on substantiating and clearing Balance Sheet accounts through invoicing and clean up to help improve our overall trade working capital
• Ensuring our compliance with Group Policies and IFRS 15 by reviewing and analysing client contracts to determine appropriate accounting treatment, ensuring accurate job set-up in Salesforce and SAP.
• Liaising with the Controllership Team to support them in analysing monthly reporting, which includes fluctuation analyses, and obtaining details on aged unbilled revenue.
• Creating global relationships with various people within the business outside the GRO team, including supporting / advising on revenue recognition issues and job set up queries from our main stakeholders (the Client Finance team), and assisting them with any queries on changes to client or job revenue & margins.
• Preparation of Revenue related balance sheet controls, reconciliations and journals.
• Ensuring compliance of Group controls, including supporting all internal & external audits for revenue related matters.