Finance Assistant

Job Description
About (PMX)
PMX is the central investment practice for Publicis Media. We're responsible for the smart application of investment by leveraging scale, marketplace innovation, deeper partnerships, and intelligence.
We are a dedicated, passionate, and expanding team, focused on delivering growth by educating and driving adoption of Publicis Groupe solutions including:

• Precision (delivering holistic programmatic value to clients and acting as the guardian of programmatic solutions. These are dedicated to the advancement and increased adoption of technology and data to drive client effectiveness and media efficiency)
• APEX (an innovative and disruptive investment solution designed to create unique opportunities that deliver tangible business benefits)
• Partnerships (developed both regionally and locally with selected key vendors to provide unique, innovative, and ultimately functional, benefits for our clients. We structure our partnerships to promote true collaboration and best in class work across our agencies)

Role Purpose:
The Media Finance Assistant will support the Finance Manager, ensuring the accuracy and full delivery of Media Accounts and Billing. Helping to streamline and centralise the Media Finance function, this opportunity will provide you autonomy and end-to-end ownership of the media reconciliation process, running client media invoices, and system maintenance of media suppliers and clients.
You will:

• Drive strong collaboration with finance and system stakeholders.
• Help train agency teams on APEX loading and processes.

Media reconciliation

• Receive APEX media invoices from media reconcilers or direct from vendors.
• Investigate discrepancies, by querying with APEX team or Agency teams as required.
• Resolve Account Queries.
• Manage reconciliations for internal and external stakeholders.

ANZ systems process optimization and automaton.

• Review efficiencies/ processes and continue to solve gaps - test solutions.
• Ensure operational excellence - SF data integrity, revenue reconciliation, billing process.
• Drive automation - loading process, inventory management, billing process, MBAs.
• Provide support to PMX Media Intelligence for system solutions.

Forecast revenue accuracy.

• Work closely with the Finance Manager & commercial teams to drive data integrity of forecasts across offline and digital and drive accurate revenue reconciliation process.
• Interrogation of forecasts/ strategic business review of increases/ decreases in revenue.
• Map data forecast and finance data, update APEX trackers and distribute to all relevant team's.
• Drive automation of revenue forecasting - Salesforce + BI

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in media/finance reconciliation will be highly regarded but not essential.
• A self-starter with excellent communication skills
• Ability to build strong internal and external working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ownership and Accountability
• Spectra Media Desktop (SMD), Mediaocean and /or Pegasus, used in this role.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail
• Ability to thrive in a busy environment, love solving problems and constantly striving to learn new things and grow.
• Natural team player, with a desire to collaborate and contribute culturally.
• Analytical thinking and asking questions to clarify and challenge.
• Advertising background preferred.

Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, one of the world's most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses, enjoying all the perks that come with our network offering:

• A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting Physical, Mindful and Financial wellbeing
• A creative, fun and rewarding office environment backed up by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”
• Access to our Global AI Platform, Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform Marcel Classes
• A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program
• A committed Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité, enABLE and Embrace (reconciliation action plan) programs
• Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year
• Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks paid primary carer leave and generous secondary carer benefits
• Access to counsellors, psychologists and professionals through Sonder - an all-in-on digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs

Publicis Media, as a part of Publicis Groupe believes that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people.