Commercial Finance Business Partner

IPG Health is home to FCB Health and McCann Health agencies - some of the world’s most celebrated and awarded health marketing agency brands. We are a collective of over 45 agencies and 5,000+ people across six continents, all singularly focused on creating game-changing marketing solutions that accelerate progress in health for good and for all. This position sits within our UK team, focused on McCann Health London and FCB Health, UK.

The Commercial Business Partner will be an effective partner to the business, providing support, challenge, expertise on all finance matters. The role will support the business leadership teams to ensure we are forecasting, tracking and billing accurately against scopes, providing financial management reporting and KPI analysis and being the face of Finance to all project and business leadership teams.

Responsibilities will include:

• Leading and guiding Client Services teams with drawing up, qualitative reviewing and approving client scopes of work before they are sent to client.
• Managing and collating the submission of all plans, budgets, and monthly client revenue forecasts, challenging any assumptions with Client Services and ensure forecasts are ambitious and achievable.
• Partnering with the client teams to ensure projects and accounts are tracking as forecast against the relevant scope and budgets
• Leading monthly revenue meetings with Client Services teams to determine revenue to be recognised each month for specific clients / products and responsibility to ensure timely billings and WIP management.
• Managing the month end reporting process to tight deadlines, submission of supporting schedules, with the main focus on monthly revenue calculation and recognition.
• Ensuring that the agency has all relevant documentation to recognise revenue across all clients – i.e. approved scopes of work, client purchase orders.
• Line management responsibilities

You will be recently qualified or part qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or qualified by experience, have a good understanding of professional services (i.e. timesheet hours) model. You will also be knowledgeable / have experience of revenue recognition and KPI reporting.

Beyond being part of one of the most accoladed health networks in the world you will also have exposure to:

· A competitive salary and benefits.

· Tremendous opportunities for personal growth and development.

· A vibrant, collaborative office environment.

· Strong links with our McCann sister companies and the IPG network, and associated resources.

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