Position Summary
Why join our team?
ESBO (European Service Business Organisation) is responsible for identifying, evaluating and determining new opportunities within the digital media and advertising industry with the goal of crafting scalable services and businesses on top of the global footprint of European Samsung Smart TVs and Mobiles. The ESBO team is working to build value for partners, advertisers, and agencies through its outstanding insights into TV viewership in the shifting media landscape.
Role and Responsibilities
Your key responsibilities
We’re looking for a driven, collaborative and forward thinking person to join our European advertising team. In this role, you will be the finance partner and trusted adviser to our advertising sales team, ensuring that the drivers of performance are well understood, and providing your business partners with actionable insights. Your role will also involve close collaboration with accounts receivable and credit risk teams.
What will be your key deliverables?
1. Month-End Closing and Reporting: Own month-end closing, billing, and reporting processes. Identify and highlight business interventions as needed to ensure accuracy and efficiency.
2. Collaboration and Reconciliation: Work with finance teams to ensure successful month-end reconciliation and billing processes, maintaining strong client relationships and resolving billing queries promptly.
3. Client Relations and Query Resolution: Manage client relationships and resolve billing queries promptly.
4. End-to-End Workflow Management: Collaborate with internal teams to ensure the full workflow—from client setup to campaign billing is complete, customer-centric, and robust
5. Revenue and Financial Reporting: Assist internal teams in accurate and timely reporting of revenue generation, credit, billing, and cash collection.
6. Data Accuracy and Record Maintenance: Ensure data accuracy across multiple datasets. Maintain complete, accurate, and readily available records and reports for credit risk data, including customer profiles, credit limits, and exposure levels.
7. Reporting and Analysis: Build and maintain key reporting metrics that drive business performance ensuring timely and accurate forecasts and metrics are consistently updated on credit and billing (e.g., credit requests, utilization, exposure, trends).
8. Continuous Process Improvement: Simplify, improve, and scale existing processes and tools to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness.
9. Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Actively participate in cross-departmental project teams.
10. Ad Hoc Reporting and Analysis:
11. Generate ad hoc financial reports and models for the ESBO leadership team as needed.
What we need for this role
To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:
12. Experience within a finance team within a matrixed environment
13. Attention to detail, ability to multitask and strong social skills required.
14. Must be task driven & have the ability to produce and hit key deliverable deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
15. Advanced Excel skills are required, including a deep understanding of formulas, macros, pivot tables.
16. Experience working with Salesforce - a plus
17. Experience working with Operative. One - a plus
18. Experience working with SAP - a plus
19. SQL skills – a plus
20. Experience working with statistical analysis/tools - a plus
21. Familiarity with media, TV measurement - a plus
22. Strong written and verbal communication skills
What does success look like?
23. Experience evaluating, analysing and crafting significant business reporting
24. Ability to develop strategic relationships with your finance and business partners. You can root cause issues quickly and uncover core issues using data, then assist, consult with, and guide the teams how decisions affect efficiency, scalability, costs and build new mechanisms as they are needed
25. Ability to take care of ambiguity & provide guidance during unexpected events
Skills and Qualifications
Benefits of working at Samsung include
26. Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days at home per week
27. Bonus scheme linked to individual, team and company performance
28. Pension contribution
29. Three volunteering days each year
30. Holiday - 25 days plus bank holidays and an additional day off for your birthday
31. Access to discounts on a wide range of Samsung products
32. Access to a discount shopping portal
33. Partner Colleagues are not eligible for Samsung Enhanced Paid Sick Leave but may be eligible for statutory payments from their payroll agency
34. Up to 20 (pro-rata) Partner Absence days per calendar year to be used in times of need
A note on equal opportunities
We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our Company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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