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Founded in 1984, APCO Worldwide is an award-winning, independently owned global communication and business strategy firm with more than 30 offices in major cities throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia – with a diverse global team of more than 800 experts.

APCO combines a global perspective with local expertise to help clients around the world manage challenges, opportunities, perceptions and reputations. APCO clients include corporations and governments; industry associations and nonprofit organizations; and six of the top 10 companies on the Fortune 500. The firm is a majority women-owned business.

The Europe Finance Team:
The Europe Finance team is based in London with some local finance admin support in the regional offices, and external tax and statutory reporting advisors in markets. The team supports management decision making and provides financial and management accounting services to all the offices in the Europe region, across 7 countries.

The team is led by the Regional FD and COO for Europe, who is based in London. The Europe Finance team serves as an integral part of the wider global finance team, reporting into the US-based Corporate Finance, with regular contact across regions including North America, MENA, and Asia. APCO Worldwide uses Maconomy for its ERP/accounting system and is a major user of Microsoft business products including Microsoft Teams

The Role:
The Financial Analyst is a critical member of the European finance team supporting Financial reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting. The position is a dynamic role in support of our continued business growth and supporting key initiatives aimed at improving profitability. Reporting to the Regional Director of FP&A and Reporting, with a regular access to the regional FD/COO ,this role will aide in optimizing the annual budgeting and the monthly reforecasting process across Europe.

This is a new role, which has come about as a result of business growth and the desire to improve the speed and quality of data that can be provided to management.

Key objectives will include supporting the overall finance infrastructure and developing and distributing key management reporting and analysis to regional leads and stakeholders, ensuring consistency of information produced.

Responsibilities:

• Uploading and maintaining the data in our reporting tool, Adaptive Insights, for all Client and New Business Revenue for the region for forecast actuals, and budget, on a timely basis, ensuring data integrity.
• Running European consolidated and local office reporting packs as required, ensuring reconciled, and that currency conversions are correct
• Producing reports for management meetings including actual and comparative data ( prior year, forecast, budget, as appropriate) for revenue, realization, utilization
• Work closely with the new business team to align data between the new business pipeline and the forecast , highlighting any inconsistencies
• Developing and running reports as required for practice group or Key client reviews, or as directed by Director FP&A & reporting, or FD/COO
• Design and prepare reports as needed to enable management to make business decisions on actions such as resource requirements and client or project pricing
• Engage with Global finance regional and corporate counterparts to maintain consistency, efficiencies and avoid “reinventing the wheel”
• Support as directed on forecasting and budget process by the Director FP&A and reporting

Requirements:

• A part qualified/qualified accountant, or relevant degree with 2 to 5 years’ relevant experience
• Fluent in English
• Attention to detail
• MS Office, including advanced skills in Excel.
• Detailed and organised to allow for effective management of multiple stakeholders and projects
• Able to quickly assimilate information and provide output to finance and non-finance people in an easily absorbable manner
• Comfortable operating in a continuously changing environment
• Experience using Adaptive Insights or a similar business tool desirable, but not essential
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships internally with all levels of staff including direct team, and senior leadership, client facing