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At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.
This role is a highly visible role within the central finance team focusing on actuals and forecast preparation for IT spend and working in partnership with the wider finance team to manage data and build insight that delivers value to the whole of WPP IT
What you'll be doing
- Prepare actuals and forecasts for IT spend, including third party spend, people costs, capex and project spend.
- Be a trusted partner to the Finance Business Partners, working collaboratively with them and other stakeholders to share information and analysis they need to support and challenge the business. Information flows two ways, so you’ll need to be well-organised and clear as to what information you need from them to do your journals and reports.
- Develop & produce insightful analysis, promoting data-led decision making, optimisation of IT spend and budget accountability. Reporting should cut through by visualising data, ask the right questions of the business to drive business performance, show spend choices, and generate actions to manage risks & opps.
- Data is key. Be able to interrogate systems and data to analyse the cost base and optimise IT spend. Continuously improve inputs and data capture. Work with others to ensure the upstream data sources are set up to give you the data you need first time, e.g. PO’s set up correctly, time recording information is accurate etc. Ensure financial masterdata is well managed and maintained, for example Job codes and departments are up to date.
- Be comfortable handling large datasets and be able to merge and control data in excel. Be able to build and maintain structured excel models and templates with a high degree of integrity.
- Based on data from systems and Finance Business Partners, prepare journals to be posted into the monthend actuals, ensuring the accounts are accurate and on-time, reflecting the best-available information.
- Plan and communicate information requirements so that monthend and planning cycles are executed efficiently.
About you
- Working towards a professional qualification in Finance (i.e. ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Degree or equivalent (i.e. MBA) desirable but not essential
- Curious, analytical and with good problem solving skills
- A team player
- Experience of working in a matrix/global organisation desirable
- Autonomous and organised
- High level of accuracy
- Calm under pressure
- Customer focus driven with a commitment to ‘do the right thing’
Who you are
You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.
You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.
You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
What we'll give you
Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.
Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?
