International Financial Liaison

Job Summary

Position Overview and Responsibilities

FleishmanHillard Inc., a leading global communications agency, is widely recognized for excellent client service and a strong company culture founded on teamwork, integrity, and personal commitment. We operate throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, South Africa, and Latin America through our 80 owned offices.  For more than 60 years, the firm has developed an unsurpassed reputation for delivering a meaningful, positive, and measurable impact on our clients’ performance.

FleishmanHillard believes a diverse team brings a wider range of personal and professional experiences and perspectives. We recognize that diversity and inclusion benefit our agency, our clients, and the communities in which we work and live. To that end, we strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

FleishmanHillard has an immediate opportunity for a Financial Liaison to join our International team at our global headquarters in St. Louis. This is an opportunity to work within a highly-motivated team environment. The ideal candidate should have experience in a fast-paced, challenging organization juggling multiple projects under strict deadlines with a high attention to analyzing results and operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Review results for offices in accordance with US GAAP including client revenue, P&L and balance sheets for consolidation at corporate
• Understand foreign exchange and work to minimize the impact of foreign exchange through hedging and business practices
• Review monthly full-year forecasts for all offices and variance analysis to forecasts and budgets and recommend actions
• Prepare variance analysis to forecasts and budgets
• Prepare summaries and analysis for supervisor, management and GMs and provides valuable information as to the profitability of the offices and what counselors/management can be doing to grow
• Assist management with tools to ensure the offices are achieving their goals and strategize for ways to grow revenue, control expenses, manage profitability and write offs
• Field and respond to questions from management, DAS, and Omnicom regarding office results
• Prepare detailed analysis of various balance sheet accounts (i.e. accrued revenue)
• Prepare various supporting schedules in addition to the financial statements
• Analyze, interpret and distribute various analyses related to discretionary expenses, time worked, billing write-offs, employee utilization, capacity and client/employee profitability
• Prepare management information necessary for profit meetings and overseas trips to locations
• Quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley documentation and testing

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience with a degree in Accounting
• CPA preferred
• Top level skills in Microsoft Excel
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and work under aggressive deadlines
• A proven ability to finalize and review internal financial statements, analyze and communicate results, recommend action, and develop forecasts and budgets in a collaborative fashion with the appropriate business leaders
• The ability to meet monthly and quarterly deadlines and apply appropriate judgment to analyzing various business situations
• A level of commitment and dedication to the business as well as a strong work ethic and customer service orientation in order to succeed
• This individual must be a self-starter and highly motivated with strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and cultures