Description

As the Finance Supervisor of Trading Commercial team, you will assist the Commercial Director on the financial planning, tracking and analysis of the business unit. You will also be ensuring global compliance policies and best practices are followed. You will work closely with the business unit, trading team and agencies on sales and opt-in tracking, and partner with the business unit and SSC on system implementation and future enhancement.

Reporting of the role

This role reports to the Commercial Director

3 best things about the job:

1. To be part of the inspiring trading commercial team that partners with management to continuously identifying and developing profitable growth opportunities for the group
2. Having opportunities and exposure to work on dynamic and fast growing business unit within the group
3. An energetic and challenging environment that individual aspiration can be fulfilled

Measures of success –
In three months, you would have:

• Be familiar with the revenue model of the business unit
• Be able to handle all related financial reports independently

In six months, you would have:

• Being the expert of the sales tracking system and underlying numbers
• A sense of what are the key compliance requirements

In 12 months, you would have:

• A good understanding of how proprietary media deals should be structured, and key compliance requirements
• A sense of how financial forecast and targets are developed for the business unit

Responsibilities of the role:

• Maintain the sales tracking either manually or after system launch, implement control procedures and regular checking to ensure correctness of the records;
• Work with SSC finance to ensure the accounting system and management books records tie with the sales tracking system;
• Independently hand all sales and client contract related reports;
• Work closely with the business unit and SSC to ensure healthy working capital is maintain and vendor contractual terms are followed
• Assist in inventory deal approval submission, vendor contract preparation and following up of deal performance
• Assist in trading income review, internal and external audits
• Assist in financial forecasting, budgeting and business reviews

What you will need:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong commercial sense and problem solving skills
• Detail oriented and proficiency in MS office
• 4-6 years of experience in accounting/finance area within adverting, media or marketing industries
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related discipline

About GroupM

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, MEC, MediaCom, Maxus, and Essence, as well as the programmatic digital media platform, Xaxis, each global operations in their own right with leading market positions. GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivaled marketplace advantage to its clients, stakeholders and people. 

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China market overview 

China is now the second largest media market, and the world’s most vibrant digital market, growing at double the rate of the US. In 2013, China surpassed the US in e-commerce, and China leads the world in mobile with over 600m smartphone connections. The pace of change and the scale of China’s emerging consumer market are unparalleled in any other market. Global CEOs are looking to China to drive growth, and brands are rushing to keep pace.

If you want a future in media and communications, there is clearly no place more vibrant, challenging and exciting than China, where opportunities for you to innovate and grow are unparalleled.