Finance Commercial Manager

2 weeks ago


Singapore GROUPM ASIA PACIFIC HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. Full time

DESCRIPTION:

  • Position at GroupM _

Overview of job

In this role, you will be the Commercial Business Partner to Chief Investment Officer, GroupM's Investment Division of Singapore the commercial and financials' needs, handle daily business issues, manage agencies associations, and recognize business opportunities.

The role requires constant communicating and negotiating with internal, external agencies and external business associates.

In addition, you will continuously work to strategically expand, preserve or improve the company's procedures, standards or policies while sticking to business edicts and regulatory guidelines.


Reporting of the role
This role reports to the GroupM Singapore CFO

3 best things about the job:

  • Opportunity to work for World Best Agencies under one roof
  • Multi facets roles, advisor, trusted partner, leader, listener, executor, etc
  • Fast pace, demanding, fun loving and satisfying work environment.

Measures of success -

In three months:

  • Be conversant with Agencies/GroupM's Legal / Finance Structure
  • Support budgeting exercise in partnership with stakeholders.
  • Oversee daytoday finance/commercial activities of Agencies /GroupM Services
  • Good understanding of all necessary control, compliances and key stakeholders contracts

In six months:

  • Lead the quarterly forecasting processes and generate monthly financial and management reports.
  • Design and implement improved business processes
  • Partner with Chief Investment Officer to model growth scenarios

In 12 months:

  • Responsible for Division P&L, Balance sheet, Annual Budget/Quarterly/Monthly Forecast
  • Joined owner with Chief Investment Officer of overall investment financial and operational performance

Responsibilities of the role:

Act as a Commercial Business Partner to Chief Investment Officer

  • As an financial and commercial advisor to Chief Investment Officer.
  • Ensure sustainable and profitable growth of investment division/products
  • Ensure the overall Financial health of all investment products
  • Revenue, Cost, Profitability etc
  • Build out a strong financial and operational processes for investment division within GroupM
  • Tracking agencies on all investment forecasting and actualisation
  • Own new and existing investments' contract terms and commercial negotiation
  • Own financial budgeting and reporting procedures and deadlines
  • Ensure compliance of client and vendors contract and Revenue Recognition policies and guidelines
  • Work closely with management team to deliver year on year growth targets
  • Drive optimal investment products' profitability
  • Assist in investment opportunities (both new, organic and new investment models)
  • Lead, plan, execute and integrate any new investment products initiatives
  • Lead, plan and execute Annual Budgeting, advise, monitor and manage Quarterly and Monthly forecasting
  • Build out strong financial and operational processes, responsible for operational efficiency across business, integration with media, finance, IT and human resource.
  • Work closely with Chief Investment Office to deliver on yearly growth targets
  • Setting up processes for tracking metrics used to measure agencies' investment strategy and aligning to overall GroupM strategy and vision.
  • Being an interface between investment division and finance shared services
  • Ad Hoc special project and new business initiatives
Provide financial support to GroupM Investment

  • Consolidate, monitor, review and analysis investment Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly budgets/reforecast
  • Ensure sustainable and profitable growth
  • Work closely with GroupM CFO/FD and Agency Head of Investment in the implementation of all investment deals
  • Work with investment team to ensure that risk is appropriately managed to safeguard proprietary media interests and that this does not lead to material losses
  • Ensure that agencies aligned and achieved yearly investment targets.
Governance, Compliance, Risk & Reporting

  • Monitor contract, internal, SOX, ICFR compliance and commercial terms
  • Ensure all contacts, client, vendors, etc, are approved, signed and filed
  • Risk and corporate governance management
  • Ensure Compliance and develop initiatives to maximise yields
  • Working with internal and external auditors, ensuring ICFR/SOX compliance
  • Ensure that all management reports submitted within deadlineMonthly, quarterly and yearly reporting to be carried out with high accuracy and timeliness and developing processes to ensure quality reporting
Variances to be fully explained and analysed with action plan
Central point of contract for investment division's global and regional

What you will need:

  • Smart, passionate and driven individual with 6 to 9 years of experience with strong finance and commercial background,
  • Proactive, selfstarter with strong commercial acumen
  • Comfortable and confident with multiple stakeholders' management
  • Comfortable and confident working in a highly motivat


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