Lead the development of the annual media budgeting process and quarterly financial forecast tracking in partnership with the Media Planning team.
Manage the monthly financial close process for media spend, ensuring accuracy and proper expense recognition.
Provide variance analysis of actual spend versus budget/forecast to the FP&A Manager and Advertising Team.
Oversee and manage monthly media expenditure, including the processing and accurate GL coding of approximately 300 vendor invoices per month.
Perform timely reconciliation of media plans against actual spend to ensure accuracy.
Proactively provide real-time media spend balances to the Advertising team, ensuring they have immediate and accurate awareness of available-to-spend budgets for timely decision-making.
Timely review of media balances with the Media Director, ensuring it aligns with budget constraints and strategic financial targets.
Develop financial models and reporting to track key performance indicators (KPIs), including preparing burn reports.
Analyze and optimize the existing media spend tracking process to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of reconciliation.
Act as the primary financial liaison for Advertising leadership and finance.
Prepare and present executive-level reporting on media spend and performance.
Directly support the Advertising team on day-to-day finance support.
Identify and implement improvements to media financial processes, reporting tools, and control environments to enhance efficiency, accuracy and timeliness of reporting.

Requirements

7-9 years of progressive experience in Accounting or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), preferably within a company with significant marketing or media spend, or at a media agency.
Proven experience working directly with marketing, advertising, or media planning teams or alternatively the ability to timely manage high-volume of financial operations, including processing invoices and reconciling project budgets against actual spend.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (financial modeling, pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, powerqueries) and PowerPoint.
Proficiency in Google Suite products.
Experience with financial planning software, Accounting Software and AP invoices processing systems.
Experience utilizing BI tools (e.g., Tableau) and media planning software is a plus.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex financial concepts to non-finance audiences.
Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.

Benefits

A 36-hour workweek with half-day Fridays and scheduling flexibility;
Three weeks of vacation and 17 paid sick days;
Medical, dental, and vision benefits with premiums fully paid for by M+R for individual employees;
401(k) plan;
Discretionary profit-sharing contributions;
Annual $1,250 professional development stipend for qualified educational expenses;
Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit;
11 holidays and a Mid-summer break the week of July 4;
Exceptional paid Parental, Personal Medical & Family Caregiving leave policies.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial modelingvariance analysisGL codingreconciliationbudgetingKPI trackingmedia spend trackinginvoice processingfinancial reportingdata analysis

Soft Skills

communicationpresentation skillsattention to detailorganizational skillstime managementproblem-solvingcollaborationleadership