Barkley

Controller

• Oversee day-to-day accounting operations, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and month-end close
• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP
• Partner with Legal and Client Finance to review client contractual terms and scopes of work to ensure appropriate accounting of revenue recognition methodology
• Ensure timely and accurate revenue recognition, including client retainers, project-based fees, and media commissions
• Responsible for managing the month-end closing activities, including variance analysis and monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.
• Ensure accruals/reserves are sufficient and review of spend for correctness and appropriateness of classification.
• Oversee and manage the balance sheet, including account reconciliations. Monitor risks associated with ageing balances for A/R, A/P, unbilled media and other key accounts. Advise of provision requirements as necessary.
• Oversee client billing processes, including media billing, pass-through costs, and reconciliations
• Ensure compliance with match pay and sequential liability
• Manage and track cash balances, including reconciliation of client and agency cash balances on a monthly basis
• Work closely with Human Resources to ensure payroll and benefits are accurate and paid timely.
• Develop and implement policies/procedures in support of and consistent with Company Objectives.
• Maintain and improve internal controls to safeguard company assets
• Ensure compliance with tax filings, audits, and regulatory requirements
• Manage relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and banking partners
• Manage annual audit with external audit firm
• Responsible for maintaining a relationship with the Company’s lending bank, including the management and review quarterly bank covenant calculations
• Own and optimize financial systems and tools (ERP, billing systems, time tracking, etc.)
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial processes
• Support system implementations or upgrades as the agency grows
• Manage and mentor accounting staff, fostering a high-performing finance team
• Collaborate closely with leadership, operations, media, and client service teams
• Act as a trusted financial advisor to senior leadership

SVP, Controller

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Executing direct media investments
• Managing vendor relationships
• Ensuring smooth campaign implementation
• Contributing to the tactical execution of media placements across offline and digital channels
• Ensuring accuracy in media activations
• Supporting contract negotiations
• Providing input on strategic recommendations
• Offering foundational insights into best practices and strategy

Senior Specialist, Direct Investments

Analyst

• Support development of measurement plans including metric availability across systems
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations aligned to measurement plans, referencing existing reports and templates
• On-going data QA to ensure data used for reporting and analysis is accurate
• Support media performance analysis by analyzing data trends and identifying data changes or outliers that can lead to actionable insights
• Collaborate with media planning, activation, strategy, and account teams to provide data storytelling of results and analyses in presentation decks/slides
• Partner with reporting and engineering teams to improve data infrastructure and automation of reporting processes.
• Demonstrate problem-solving ability with emphasis on drawing inferences with data
• Showcase the ability to understand the full working picture of a media plan, not in a single channel silo

Manager

• Design measurement strategies for cross-channel campaigns by working with clients and internal teams to understand business objectives & campaign strategy and aligning appropriate KPIs and measurement solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to create analyses that move beyond an explanation of ‘what happened’ to ‘what is important,’ ‘why it happened’ and ‘what should be done’.
• Develop, maintain and deliver dashboards, reports, and data visualization tools to internal and client teams that track KPIs and campaign success.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships that will enable Analytics team to be viewed as trusted partner and drive strategic conversations.
• Be a translator of data and ideas between the client and internal teams; Listen to client, hear them and anticipate their needs.
• Forecast audience and campaign performance benchmarks to provide optimization diagnostics.
• Manage and mentor small team of junior analysts, ensuring best practices in data analysis, reporting, and storytelling.
• Comfortable developing business relationships with AdTech partners to manage and source data.
• Comfortable working with and delivering concrete requirements to reporting & engineering team that will enable reporting-ready data & deliverables.
• Stay up to date with emerging trends in media analytics, measurement technologies, and industry benchmarks.

Manager, Analytics

Director

• Build and develop a deep understanding of the client's strategic issues, initiatives, and competitive positions. Use this information to measurement frameworks and reporting roadmaps
• Ensure that analytics efforts lead to clear, compelling and actionable insights; and insightful narratives are constructed through sophisticated analytics techniques
• Create and support executive level presentations and analysis of analytic and data solutions to support client needs
• Oversee the development of dashboards, campaign performance reports, and advanced measurement (e.g., brand health, incrementality, A/B testing, etc.).
• Translate data/results into compelling and actionable insights; constructing insightful narratives through sophisticated analytic techniques
• Ensure timely follow through on all scheduled and ad hoc deliverables. Identify opportunities to continuously improve processes
• Present reports, POVs and other materials to clients on a regular basis over the phone and in person
• Manage a team of analysts and managers, providing mentorship, technical guidance, and career development support.
• Collaborate with data engineering, BI, and marketing science partners to refine data infrastructure and analytics workflows.
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across deliverables.
• Partner with the Planning and Investment teams on annual budget setting, media plan development and ongoing budget / plan optimization.
• Stay up to date on industry trends, analytics best practices, emerging tools, and methodologies.
• Develop depth and breadth of understanding of solutions and offerings across BarkleyOKRP and MissionOneMedia

SVP, Controller

Senior Specialist, Direct Investments

Analyst

Manager, Analytics

Director, Analytics