Advertising Media Finance Manager

Role Overview

• 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.

Tech Stack

• Tableau

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.