Senior Financial Analyst
WPP Media
Posted on 5 Mar
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Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting for assigned business units within WPP Media. This role supports month-end close, statutory and management reporting, balance sheet governance, and compliance with internal controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and reclassifications.
- Perform detailed BS and P&L reconciliations and resolve variances.
- Support the annual budgeting process and quarterly reforecast cycles
- Analyze variances between actuals, budget, and forecast; provide actionable commentary
- Support revenue recognition in accordance with contractual terms
- Review client billing, revenue accruals, and cost allocations
- Partner with commercial teams to ensure financial accuracy on client accounts
- Maintain adherence to internal control frameworks (including SOX where applicable)
- Support internal and external audit requests
- Ensure documentation of accounting policies and procedures
Skills and Experience
- Bachelor s degree in accounting, Finance, or related discipline
- IFRS, FMVA and ACCA, or equivalent certification preferred (or in progress)
- 2 4 years of progressive accounting, reporting, financing experience in media, advertising, agency, or professional services environments preferred
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday, or similar)
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, financial modeling)
- High attention to detail and strong analytical skills
Desired Candidate Profile
Bachelor s degree in accounting, Finance, or related discipline
- IFRS, FMVA and ACCA, or equivalent certification preferred (or in progress)
- 2 4 years of progressive accounting, reporting, financing experience in media, advertising, agency, or professional services environments preferred
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday, or similar)
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, lookups, financial modeling)
- High attention to detail and strong analytical skills
Company Industry
- Advertising
- PR
- Event Management
Department / Functional Area
- Finance
- Treasury
Keywords
- Senior Financial Analyst
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WPP Media
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com . WPP Media, part of WPP, is WPP s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com