Publicis CanadaClient Finance Manager
Mar. 2002 - Mar. 2004Reporting to Director Client Relations and CFO Assured financial management for the two largest accounts Hewlett Packard and KIA at one of the world's top marketing and communication firm Prepared financial reporting packages Prepared Budget Control Reports for the clients Pricing, margin analysis, trending and post month end variance reporting for various business units Assisted HP in development of advertising and media budgets Liaison between the client and agency staff, managing clients' marketing budgets Facilitate of estimates for jobs across the agency and authorize that all billings are within budget Monitor jobs across the various agency and media partner divisions to ensure costs are within estimate, flag discrepancies INTEL-HP partner funding management, claiming and reporting Accomplishments: * Designed and implemented an agency wide integrated process that met financial needs of the client * Generated funding from Intel partner, for the client and at the same time raised additional funds for the agency. Maximized Intel $ received by allocating the funds to the most beneficial media (highest percentage of media discount) * Implemented an agency and media partner wide integrated process that met Intel Guidelines; * Generating additional revenue by actualizing budgets and interpreting variances to the