Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestl, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.
- This is a 12 months contract role.
What does a Executive, Agency Finance & Management do at Hogarth
Responsibilities:
- Monthly tracking of expenditure reports and invoice payments.
- Drive monthly budget meetings with business units to ensure budget optimization.
- Assist with quarterly re-forecasting, annual budgets, and projections.
- Assist with any ad-hoc projects such as pitch management.
- Coordinate and conduct financial reconciliation to ensure agency scope utilization is on track.
- Review commercial commitments (e.g. media master contracts) to ensure timely reporting of savings derived from the commitments. (Supported by OMD)
- Liaise with legal and procurement teams on agency contract drafting and negotiations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert to the marcom team within areas of financial / process optimization and control and compliance.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Business / Mass Communications
- Familiar with SAP system
- Proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint
- Financial and commercial management in an advertising environment will be an added advantage
- Ability to work independently, and cross-functionally and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Diversity & Inclusion
Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
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