Senior Client Finance Manager

Overview

Act as a strategic finance partner to client teams on commercial and financial matters, ensuring contractual compliance and delivering financial analysis across budgeting, forecasting, client profitability, billing governance, collections, contract management and commercial reporting.

What you'll do

• Support client teams on commercial and financial matters while ensuring contractual compliance.
• Deliver insightful financial analysis and commercial reporting.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting, client profitability, billing governance, collections and contract management.
• Help optimize financial performance, identify commercial opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Ensure successful execution of client agreements.
• Build trusted relationships with internal teams and external clients.

What you'll need

• Chartered Accountant (CA).
• 7–10 years of experience in Commercial Finance, Client Finance, Business Finance, or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A).
• Experience working within a global organization.
• Strong understanding of commercial finance, client contracts, revenue management, budgeting, forecasting and financial planning.
• Experience supporting commercial negotiations, contract management, pricing and financial governance.
• Proven expertise in preparing client MIS, management reports, financial forecasts and variance analysis.
• Strong understanding of billing processes, revenue recognition, collections management and incentive tracking.
• Experience monitoring client profitability, charge-out rates, overhead recovery and commercial performance.
• Ability to manage client audits and ensure contractual and financial compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence business leaders and build trusted client relationships.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and critical thinking skills with high attention to detail.
• Self-driven, organized and capable of managing multiple priorities while meeting tight deadlines.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative, matrix environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present financial insights clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• High level of integrity, accountability and ownership, with a proactive approach to continuous improvement.

Nice to have

• Experience in the media, advertising, marketing services or professional services industry.

Details

• Location: Gurgaon, India.
• Hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week.