FP&A Analyst

Job Description

Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis | Publicis Groupe

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Publicis Groupe, located in Philadelphia, PA, with a 4x/week hybrid schedule. Publicis Groupe is a global leader in communication, positioned at every step of the value chain from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation for clients worldwide. This role is crucial for supporting financial forecasting and analysis within the Health Pillar, ensuring accurate financial reporting and providing valuable insights to leadership for strategic decision-making and operational performance evaluation.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Philadelphia, PA
• Pay: $50065–$66360 yearly
• Team: Reports to AD, FP&A, supporting business unit Finance Directors within the Health Pillar.
• Mission: Owns the accurate financial forecasting, budgeting, and analysis of business unit performance and G&A costs for the Health Pillar, providing critical insights to leadership.
• Tech Stack: Hyperion Financial Mgmt (HFM), Anaplan, Microsoft Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Forecasting and Budgeting: Support business unit Finance Directors in creating regular financial forecasts and analyze monthly/annual financial results, providing commentary on variances.
• G&A Costs Management: Provide monthly reporting of General & Administrative (G&A) costs to budget holders, ensure costs are coded to proper accounts, and analyze actual costs to budget, understanding variances and key drivers.
• Management Reporting: Support Finance and Executive leadership by compiling and analyzing data to create business insights and assisting with presentations of financial information, including charts and graphs.
• Ad Hoc Analysis: Support agency leadership by providing data and analysis to solve business problems, extracting and summarizing data from Groupe financial software.
• Financial Software Expertise: Develop expertise in Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) and Anaplan to regularly update data, ensure accuracy, and distribute financial reports.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting.
• Experience: Relevant internship experience and/or 1+ years of work experience considered.
• Skills: Strong technical skills, especially Microsoft Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables); effective communication skills; excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills; comfortable digging through large volumes of reporting for key operational findings; ability to work with confidential information professionally and discreetly; ability to maintain and grow positive stakeholder relationships; self-motivation to work independently and ability to collaborate in a team environment.