Assistant Manager – Planning & Reporting

- Coordinate and oversee all FP&A requirements for media income including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis. - Prepare and analyze monthly forecasts, quarterly forecasts, and annual budgets with appropriate liaison and challenge to client leads. - Submit service line budgets and forecasts into SAC Planning System and validate outputs for consistency and accuracy. - Share forecasts and budgets with media commercial finance leads, communicating variances, risks, and agreed remedial actions. - Prepare PowerPoint presentations to support financial reviews at capability, department, and practice area levels. - Perform trend analysis including pipeline reviews to inform forecasting and reporting. - Interact monthly with client accounting teams to understand performance deviations and incorporate these into future forecasts. - Support month‑end close processes, ensuring accruals and inaccuracies are resolved with financial control. - Maintain and update trackers and repositories f...