Job description
Job Description
Operating Company
GroupM UK
Job Title
Finance Apprentice
Department / Team
GroupM UK Finance (FP&A)
Reporting To
FP&A Director
Contract Length
24 Months
Location
Red Lion Square, London
About GroupM
GroupM is the leading global media investment management operation serving as the parent company to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker and MediaCom, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com.
Description of Role
The Finance Apprentice role sits within the GroupM UK FP&A team, reporting into the FP&A Director. The role will work closely with agency FP&A teams, commercial team and GroupM reporting teams.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting the FP&A team with quarterly forecast and budget processes
- Working collaboratively across the wider Reporting and Commercial teams to continuously streamline and improve processes
- Assisting the team with forecasting deliverables and ensuring timely submissions
- Become an expert of the finance system reporting tools, and assisting with implementation of new forecasting systems
- Responsible for maintaining centralised revenue and cost files across People Planning and Commercial teams
- Collect and prepare client profitability reports for the UK agency, working with the Commercial teams to
- Supporting the wider FP&A team with ad-hoc requests
Skills and Behaviours
- Acute and thorough attention to detail
- Strong work ethic and collaborative nature essential
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good interpersonal skills to work with different management levels
- Quick to learn and adaptable to changing work allocation and able to prioritise workload to meet challenging deadlines
- Enthusiastic with a can-do attitude
GroupM
www.groupm.com
New York, United States
Christian Juhl
Unknown / Non-Applicable
10000+ Employees
Subsidiary or Business Segment
Advertising & Public Relations
2003