
Client Finance Analyst
Stagwell
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $60,000 - $95,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Ensure accurate project accounting, financial analysis, revenue integrity, SOX-compliant documentation, budgeting support, and forecast entry.
- Maintain accurate project financials in Maconomy throughout the project lifecycle
- Set up jobs, enter budgets, and ensure financial terms align with contracts and approved scopes
- Track burn rates, actuals, budget vs. actual, margins, and key financial KPIs
- Conduct job reconciliations across revenue, expenses, WIP, and PO status
- Ensure LER documentation meets SOX requirements , including proper approval and audit-ready backup
- Review and validate all financial inputs for billing to ensure accuracy before the AR team finalizes invoices
- Confirm hours, vendor costs, T&E, OOP, production budgets, and contract terms
- Flag discrepancies or missing documentation for correction
- Ensure all supporting documentation required for SOX (LER, approvals, backup) is complete before an invoice is released
- Support Finance and Biz Ops in maintaining a clean month-end billing process margin trends variance analysis profitability insights scenario/sensitivity modeling
- Summarize insights for Biz Ops and Finance to support planning and decision-making
- Identify financial risks or inefficiencies across projects and accounts
- Enter and update budgets and forecasts into financial systems
- Support re-forecast cycles with project-level insights and data updates
- Maintain financial models and dashboards in Google Sheets (burn reports, forecasts, margin summaries, revenue trackers)
- Provide inputs for weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts
- Track timing of expected billings, vendor payments, and reimbursements
- Review vendor invoices for accuracy, proper coding, and alignment with budgets/POs
- Support employee expense review for compliance and accuracy
- Track production budgets, vendor commitments, and T&E billbacks
- Maintain high-quality financial data within Maconomy
- Support new client and vendor setup workflows
- Build and refine automated reporting and trackers in Google Sheets
- Strengthen SOX compliance through documentation, LER accuracy, approvals, and audit trails
- Recommend improvements to workflows and reporting to increase accuracy and efficiency
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience in client finance, project accounting, FP&A, or financial operations (agency/creative/production preferred)
- Strong financial analysis and budgeting/forecasting capabilities
- Advanced Google Sheets skills (modeling, pivot tables, complex formulas)
- Experience with Maconomy (or similar ERP/project accounting systems)
- Understanding of revenue recognition and billing workflows — without owning invoice creation
- Exposure to SOX processes preferred
- Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally across Finance, Biz Ops, Sales, and Delivery
Benefits
- Equal Employment Opportunity
- Reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled team members
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial analysisbudgetingforecastingproject accountingrevenue recognitionSOX compliancejob reconciliationfinancial modelingdata analysisvariance analysis
Soft skills
detail-orientedorganizational skillscommunication skillscross-functional collaborationproblem-solving