Responsibilities

• Manage, support, and own media financials for the assigned client 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 agency and our client.
• Review, negotiate, and manage agency contracts from a business and compliance standpoint in partnership with our legal team.
• Escalate operational challenges and financial inconsistencies to management 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.
• 5+ years of progressively-responsible professional experience supporting media operations and finance in an advertising agency environment.
• 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.
• Prior experience managing people and the ability to mentor and guide team members to get the best out of them and drive career growth and development.
• Prior experience working with and presenting directly to clients.
• Highly organized with an exceptional attention to detail.
• Active listener with exceptional storytelling, verbal & written communication, presentation, and negotiation skills as well as a high degree of emotional intelligence.
• A natural sense of urgency with an ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within tight deadlines and constantly-evolving project parameters, scope, and goals.

Preferred

• 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.
• Experience working alongside the financial industry or other regulated industries is a plus.