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 for budgets, forecasts, month‑end close, and other reporting requirements.

• Produce monthly and ad‑hoc reporting outputs for the service line.

• Support and collaborate with the wider FP&A team, commercial finance, and operational finance.