Finance Analyst

Agency :

Havas London

Job Description :

Havas London is Havas UK's flagship creative agency. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people.

We're the only major UK advertising agency to share a single building with every other specialist business in our network, all under a single P&L. Sitting within the Havas Village in King's Cross affords us some clear advantages; none more so than our ability to build bespoke, multi-discipline teams around our clients, whatever their business need.

These are not teams that are together on paper alone, but teams physically, culturally, logistically and financially aligned. This set-up allows us to complement - not replicate - our specialisms.

The Role:

The Havas Creative Finance team is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Finance Analyst to support our FP&A team in delivering accurate financial reporting and insightful analysis. As a key part of the role is driving agency recovery, the Finance Analyst will be working closely with our Commercial Accountants.

Responsibilities:

- Ensuring timesheet submission within our internal deadlines

- Data validity checks against the data in our system and approved rates/roles

- Produce Recovery and Profitability reports monthly/bi-weekly

- Produce Utilisation and Capacity report

- Review fee proposals and scopes in our systems.

- Training the client teams on our finance system, Pulse.

- Ensure rate cards, rates and roles are up to date in the system.

- Ensure the Pulse Production System is maintained and used appropriately.

- Support the management accounts team with ad hoc analysis tasks.

- Ad-hoc tasks.

Skills:

Experience as a Finance Analyst

Previous agency experience desirable

Excellent attention to detail

Self-motivator

Advanced Excel skills

Contract Type :

Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual's ability to perform their job.

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