Associate Director Finance
- Recruiter
- GroupM Pakistan
- Location
- Karachi, Pakistan
- Salary
- As per candidate's experience and organisation's budgetary ranges
- Posted
- 01 Nov 2019
- Closes
- 18 Dec 2019
- Job role
- Finance director
- Sector
- Media/Marketing
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Director
Description
Position at GroupM
GroupM is the world’s largest media investment company and are a part of WPP. In fact, we are responsible for one in every three ads you see globally. We are currently looking for an Associate Director Finance to join us. In this role, you will liaise with GroupM /Agency team to oversee the day-to-day activities of the reporting, budgeting and compliance function and ensure the company’s finance is organized and efficient and produces accurate financial and management accounts.
At GroupM APAC, our people are our strength, which is why fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion is important to us.
Reporting of the role
This role reports to: Chief Financial Officer
3 best things about the job:
- Opportunity to work for World Best Agencies under one roof
- Multi facets roles, advisor, trusted partner, leader, listener, executor, etc
- Fast pace, demanding, fun loving and satisfying work environment.
In this role, your goals will be:
In three months:
- You will be in pace with the GroupM’s value proposition and familiar with the company culture.
- To assist in budgeting, quarterly forecasting and monthly rolling forecast for agencies and GroupM.
- Assuming the commercial role of the agencies assigned, on track to becoming the trusted business partner to agencies.
In six months:
- You will be able to make analysis on the agency’s financial performance and involve in the daily operation of the business and operational finance.
- Being a valued team member in supporting to drive growth of the company.
In 12 months:
- You will be able to advise the management team on the strategy and deployment of resources in order to facilitate the management of the business.
- Ability to plan, strategize and execute mid to long term plan to improve the overall financials margins for agencies and group.
What your day job looks like at GroupM:
- Perform monthly closing and financial reporting, liaison with regional finance team on reporting matters.
- Provide and interpret financial information of the company to the Group management.
- Preparing budgets and quarterly forecasts and timely submission to regional office.
- Ensure that SOX controls are in place and implemented effective and efficiently.
- Producing accurate financial reports to specific deadlines to regional office and local management.
- Monitoring actual performance with budgets and forecasts, providing summary of variances and reasoning.
- Must be aware of making chart of accounts, balance sheet and profit and loss account.
- Ensure completion of audits and compliance related tasks.
- Work extensively to build good working relationships with the business teams.
- Ensuring of commercial and reporting teams development through on the job training.
- Oversee the commercial and client management services teams to provide guidance as per the financial perspective of particular agency
- Support the specialized unit i.e Trading, Digital and ESP in terms of budgeting and targets achievement.
- Oversee all the legal related matters are resolved. Ensuring of complete agreements with internal and external customers.
- Monitor and support tax related tasks with alignment of local laws.
What you’ll bring:
- Self-driven, forward looking, results-oriented with a positive outlook and a clear focus.
- Ability to lead, plan and manage change.
- Ability to earn respect and trust from senior management and external stakeholders.
- Diligent and willing to be hands, ‘roll up your sleeves’
- Flexibility and comfortable working in a fast pace matrix reporting environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Positive thinking, motivated and collaborative team player.
- In depth knowledge of processes, tools and techniques.
Minimum qualifications:
MBA (Finance)/ACCA qualified/CA part qualified with articleship completed from a reputed firm of Chartered Accountant.
At least 6-8 years of in similar position, people, team management skill is essential.
More about GroupM
GroupM is the leading global media investment management group serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize the performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, and proprietary tool development. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people, and is increasingly working closely for the benefit of clients with WPP’s data investment management group, Kantar. Together, GroupM and Kantar account for over 50% of WPP’s group revenues of more than $20 billion.
Discover more about GroupM at www.groupm.com
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About Pakistan
The Pakistani media and entertainment industry expected growth in 2018 is 10%. The introduction of 3G and 4G along with a Cellular Mobile Tele-density of 70.83% makes Pakistan’s an exciting market with enormous potential. The rapidly increasing 45 million user internet subscriber-base with a 50mn broadband subscriber base (24.5% penetration) shows an optimistic growth for any media and advertising professional.