Responsibilities

• Manage, support, and own media financials for assigned clients and teams including monthly billing reconciliations, executing audits, vendor invoice validation, and similar tasks.
• In partnership with the VP Media Business Operations, meet with client to present updates, identify and triage issues, and develop and implement solutions.
• Ensure campaigns are properly set up in the system and regularly review campaigns for accuracy and alignment to financial, business, and operational expectations.
• Serve as a key stakeholder in buying tool evaluations, process rollouts, user subscriptions and tool integrations including preparation of POVs, recommendations, etc.
• Work with vendors to create solutions that work best to satisfy the needs of the agency and its clients.
• Partner with the Legal team to review, negotiate, and manage agency contracts from a business and compliance standpoint.
• Escalate operational challenges and financial inconsistencies to leadership and bring well-thought out solutions to the table.
• Partner with multi-level, cross-functional media teams, finance, accounts payable, legal and leadership to ensure a seamless integration of work.
• Evaluate, assess, and recommend the most effective financial and operational solutions to satisfy clients' objectives.
• Maintain a clear and reasonable vision of "next steps" and the "big picture" during meetings or when the parameters of a project changes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, advertising, marketing, or related field preferred; experience may be substituted.
• 7+ years of progressively-responsible professional experience supporting media operations and finance in an advertising agency environment or in-house marketing team.
• Experience working with specialized tools like Prisma, MediaTools/Guideline, or similar.
• Extensive experience managing media finance and operations initiatives with a specific focus on budget management and reconciliation.
• An understanding of media campaigns, planning, and buying in an advertising agency environment.
• Fiscally responsible with a knack for budget management - numbers are your friend.
• Prior experience managing people and the ability to mentor and guide team members to get the best out of them while driving career growth and development.
• Prior experience working with and presenting directly to clients.
• Highly organized with an exceptional attention to detail.
• Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Benefits

• Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.