WPP

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Finance Manager – Transformation

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Job Summary

Own financial planning, analysis, and governance for transformation programmes and the worldwide IT function. Track budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances; link business cases and funding decisions to spend; and support monthly actualisation, quarterly reforecasting, and annual budgeting cycles. Prepare clear financial reporting for senior stakeholders and governance forums with strong audit trails. Partner with Finance, PMO, programme managers, and Procurement to improve transparency, vendor spend analysis, and finance models for continuous improvement.

Location: Chennai

Workplace: Hybrid

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Finance & Accounting

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Track and manage financial performance across transformation programmes and the worldwide IT function, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, and variances.
•Support programme, PMO, and media finance teams with financial insight to identify risks, trends, and cost pressures.
•Ensure linkage between approved business cases, funding decisions, and actual spend; support monthly actualisation, quarterly reforecasting, and annual budgeting cycles.
•Prepare regular financial reporting and analysis for senior stakeholders and ensure evidence-based, consistent information for governance forums with audit trails.
•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.

Key Requirements

•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 with confidence working with complex financial data sets.
•Excellent verbal and written communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and ability to explain complex financial information to non-finance stakeholders.

Skills:Attention to detailProblem-solvingCritical thinkingCommunicationAbility to manage multiple priorities

Certifications:ACAACCACIMA

Languages:English

Tech Stack:ExcelPowerpointAdaptive

Company Brief

WPP

Global marketing and communications services group offering advertising, media investment management, branding, public relations, and digital services to multinational clients across industries.

Industry: Advertising Media Groups

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Revenue: USD 1B+

Growth: Public Company

Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)

Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed

Headquarters: London, United Kingdom

Founded: 1971

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