Financial Assistant Associate

Company: Kantar
Location: Columbus
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

WE GO BEYOND THE OBVIOUS, USING INTELLIGENCE, PASSION AND CREATIVITY TO INSPIRE NEW THINKING AND SHAPE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. TO START A CAREER THAT IS OUT OF THE ORDINARY, PLEASE APPLY...

**JOB DETAILS**

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies. Kantar's 30,000 people based in more than 100 countries help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow. Nobody knows people better than Kantar. We provide insight and inspiration to help our clients, our people and society to create and flourish in an extraordinary world.
Our insights colleagues are experts in human understanding. With expertise covering brand, innovation, creative,media, commerce and customer experience, they help clients define what brands should stand for, how todisrupt and renew their offer, how to connect with audiences and how to win with consumers and customers.

- Financial Assistant Associate
- US, Remote

**ROLE DESCRIPTION**

The Financial Assistant Associate is an internally focused professional responsible for evaluating, reviewing, and troubleshooting the Analytics teams' pipeline, orders, and other financial administrative tasks. The Financial Assistant Associate serves as a liaison between Kantar Financial Services team and Client Service teams in creating client facing jobs and setting up budgets. This role would suit a motivated professional who enjoys fostering relationships with stakeholders across the team, works collaboratively in a team setting, excels at multitasking and prioritizing, is detail-oriented with tasks, while embracing independent responsibility over their work.

- Oversees and tackle issues with pipeline, pending orders, Client Lead/Project Lead teams and Kantar Financial Services team
- Setups up client facing jobs and keeps pipeline accurate & up-to-date
- Assists with financial reporting and analysis
- Partners with Client Lead/Project Lead team to ensure invoices are correct and get to clients on time
- Works to improve the workflow for Purchase Orders and Billing
- Weekly/monthly reporting on pipeline, orders, pending orders, aged AR, and accrued revenue
- Supports the Analytics team with new initiatives

**CAPABILITIES:**

- High proficiency using web-based tools and MS Office (including Excel)
- Resourceful problem solving, organized and analytical, with a detailed oriented mindset
- Able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks under tight deadlines concurrently
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Reacts to change productively and displays a solution driven approach
- Strong teamwork ethic with an ability to complete tasks independently and proactively

**JOIN US:**

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity, therefore we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

**PRIVACY DISCLOSURE:**

Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited ("Kantar"). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager(s) and for consideration for potential future opportunities by Kantar and its affiliate Kantar group companies. For full details of our privacy policy please visit www.kantar.com .

**LOCATION**

Boston, Boylston Street, United States of America

**KANTAR REWARDS STATEMENT**

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitiveand alsoto support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health andwell beingis taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else.

Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.

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