Assistant Manager – Planning & Reporting

• Coordinate and oversee all FP&A requirements for the Creative service line.

• Prepare, review, and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets and forecasts.

• Submit service line budgets and forecasts into SAC Planning System and validate outputs for accuracy and consistency.

• Communicate identified variances, risks, and overspends to Creative Commercial Finance leads and agree on remedial actions.

• Prepare PowerPoint presentations supporting service line financial reviews at department and practice levels.

• Perform trend analysis including validating Salesforce pipeline data to inform forecasts.

• Interact monthly with Client Accounting teams to understand deviations in actual performance and adjust future forecasting.

• Support the month‑end close process in collaboration with Financial Control to ensure key accruals and corrections.

• Provide monthly commentary and resolve queries for the Market FP&A team.

• Produce regular and ad‑hoc reporting outputs for the service line.

• Support finance needs for Creative projects and initiatives including business case scenario modelling.

• Work collaboratively with the wider FP&A team, Commercial Finance, and Operational Finance.

• Interact with EMEA and Global teams regarding spend and associated recharges.

• Conduct in‑depth revenue and cost reviews for the Creative service line and identify opportunities for standardization and efficiency improvements.