Company Description
Overview
Finance Business Partner
Location: London
Looking for your next step in commercial finance within a creative and fast-paced environment?
We're hiring a Finance Business Partner to join the finance team, partnering closely with senior stakeholders across the business to provide commercial, financial and operational support.
This is a highly visible role where you'll work alongside Managing Partners, Business Unit Directors and client teams, helping to drive profitability, forecasting, revenue management and business performance.
What you'll be doing
- Business partnering with senior agency stakeholders
- Supporting revenue forecasting, budgeting and financial planning
- Delivering client profitability and utilisation reporting
- Providing commercial insight and analysis to support decision-making
- Reviewing revenue recognition and ensuring compliance with accounting principles
- Leading conversations around revenue, profitability and business performance
- Supporting month-end reporting and forecasting cycles
- Managing relationships with client-facing teams and providing financial guidance
What we're looking for
- Experience in a Finance Business Partner, Commercial Finance or Finance Analyst role
- Part-qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA, or equivalent commercial finance experience
- Strong forecasting, reporting and analytical skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Advanced Excel capability and confidence working with large datasets
- Previous agency, marketing, advertising or professional services experience would be beneficial
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working closely with the business, influencing decision-making and turning financial information into meaningful commercial insight.
Get in touch to find out more.
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Additional Information
Publicis Groupe offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees. Full details are shared when you join, but highlights include core benefits such as Pension, Life Assurance, and Private Medical cover, alongside enhanced policies like Reflection Days and Shared Parental Leave. You’ll also have access to a range of additional initiatives, including:
📖 Please check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups).
Publicis Groupe works primarily from the office or our clients' office four days per week.
At Publicis Groupe, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, citizenship, relationship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected characteristic.
We are committed to providing a fair, accessible, and inclusive recruitment process. If you have any access needs - for example, related to disability, neurodivergence, or a health condition - please let us know. We’ll work with you to ensure the process works for you. Sharing this information will never impact your application.
Guided by our values, we listen with empathy, uplift each other, take responsibility, and embrace change - building a culture where everyone feels seen, respected, and genuinely included.
Finance Business Partner in London employer: Publicis Groupe
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