Finance Manager – Transformation
HybridChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Summary
Track and manage financial performance across WPP ET Media Transformation programmes and the Worldwide IT function, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances. Prepare regular financial reporting and analysis for Media S&T Business Operations, WPP ET, and senior stakeholders while maintaining strong audit trails for assumptions and approvals. Partner with Finance, PMO, Programme Managers, and Procurement to resolve data issues, improve transparency, and support vendor-related financial activities such as spend analysis and invoice tracking. Contribute to continuous improvement of financial models and trackers used across Media S&T. This individual contributor role requires a qualified accountant with strong Excel skills and experience in transformation finance to ensure accurate, timely financials for global portfolio and governance forums.
Required Qualifications
- Qualified or recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Strong grounding in financial analysis, management accounting, budgeting, and forecasting
- High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong Excel and Powerpoint skills; confidence working with complex financial data sets
- Excellent verbal and written communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non‐finance stakeholders - able to articulate or convey complex data well
- Quick to learn, with the ability to reshape, reconfigure and realign solutions to meet challenging deadlines without jeopardising the successful delivery of the team's objectives
Desired Qualifications
- Exposure to project, programme, or transformation finance
- Experience in technology, media, professional services, or large matrix organisations
- Familiarity with financial planning and reporting tools (e.g. Adaptive or similar)
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