Client Finance Analyst

About the Role 

The Client Finance Analyst provides financial support to client account teams and monitors budgets on a project basis. This is an excellent opportunity for a smart, ambitious individual who takes pride in the work they produce, looking to continue gaining experience within Finance & Accounting – or looking to learn Finance within the advertising and marketing industry – at one of the top ten marketing communications firms worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Provide financial support to client account teams and monitor client budgets on a project basis
• Instruct billing to client on a timely basis, ensuring invoices are in line with client requirements and internal processes.
• Regular meetings with client teams to review open jobs, & WIP actions needed
• Provide financial information to various departments and clients as required including but not limited to invoice queries, audit requests, client specific contractual reporting requirements
• Assist in the creation of job estimates, budgets, and client staffing plans, including calculating fees for client staffing plans
• Assume role of financial contact for account team and resource manager on assigned client business
• Generate timely billing reports for review with clients as directed by account team
• Provide complete journal entries, time entry transfers and provide invoicing instructions
• Secure client P.O. or necessary work/payment authorizations and ensure adherence to contract billing policies and workflow procedures, as well as monitor accounts receivable status and follow-up on aged balances with client
• Lead and participate in financial meetings
• Explaining to client team how the job processes work on a client and why
• Creating internal (non-billable) purchase orders to vendors for client work
• Open and manage jobs in coordination with account team.
• Participate in the coordination and submission of all internal and client periodic reporting to Corp Headquarters and/or parent company
• Prepare journal entries in relation to month end close
• Assist in inter-company payables and receivables
• Assist in all internal and external Audits
• Participate in any and all Sarbanes Oxley initiatives
• Perform reconciliations and analyses of key accounts and coordinate activities with the treasury and accounts payable department
• Provide ad hoc client financial analysis in the review of monthly results, and summary of monthly billings and reconciliation

What You’ll Need

• Minimum 1-2 years of related financial and/or accounting experience, preferably within an advertising, marketing, PR or service industry environment.
• Basic finance/Accounting knowledge (Balance Sheet, A/R, P&Ls, etc.) While this isn't an accounting position, understanding basic accounting principles is crucial.  
• SAP Knowledge/Experience preferred not required
• Strong analytical skills
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent experience with MS Office, especially Excel. Creating and using complicated spreadsheets are part of everyday work, so the ideal candidate should be very computer adept and a fast learner of new applications.
• An approachable, efficient person who is self-motivated and works well with both finance and non-finance staff. A methodical approach is required to do this role effectively. The role has a high level of repetitive tasks which need to be tackled with care and attention. Time management.

How We’ll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.