Commercial Financial Analyst

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. 

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. 

Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

The Role:

We are looking for a Commercial Finance Analyst to partner with Commercial Directors & Client teams for key global clients.

Key Areas of Responsibility  

• Assist Commercial Finance responsibilities for Global and UK clients while supporting the wider team with ad hoc and regular reporting.
• Working within a matrix structure alongside other Commercial Finance team members; reporting to Commercial Directors.
• Support the Commercial Directors and Sr. Commercial Managers on RFPs/pitches.
• Preparation of rate-cards and pricing models.
• Analyzing client budgeting and forecasting information in conjunction with the Commercial Directors.
• Responsible for providing financial analysis for specific UK clients.
• Communicate financial practices in a succinct manner to non-finance literate colleagues, forging good working relationships in the process.
• Updating rebate and retainer schedules monthly and liaising with UK Revenue team.
• Identifying areas where the team can be more efficient in sharing information with Commercial Finance teams in the U.S. and Singapore, rationalizing our portfolio rate-cards in the process.
• Preparation and develop internal commercial reporting e.g. client profitability.
• Identify areas where reporting can be streamlined.
• Supporting the wider team with ad hoc analysis requests.
• Opportunity to be proactive and drive new opportunities.
• Embed best practices.
• Study support available.

Requirements  

• 3-5 years of finance experience within the Agency space (advertising, production, media, creative or other agency-like settings are ideal) 
• Outstanding Excel skills including experience with Pivot Tables and VBA is a big plus, skills in Word and PowerPoint also requested 
• Ability to reconcile data with precision and financial understanding 
• Media, Advertising, Creative or Production industry experience preferred 
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills 
• Keen attention to detail 
• Strong problem-solving skills 
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance is a plus but not required 

Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves.  We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. 

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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