Manager, Media Finance

Omnicom Media — Finance / Client Finance

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and serve as one of the final checkpoints to ensure that billings are accurate once compiled by the investment and portfolio teams before issuance to the client.
• Become familiar with contract and billing related provisions and terms.
• Review pre-bills against signed Media Authorization and investment flow charts.
• Manage year end close process with Portfolio Management, Investment, Omaha Shared Services.
• Work with the Portfolio Management teams to ensure all appropriate Purchase Orders and related Billing coding numbers are received timely.
• Partner with the A/R team in Shared Services Dept to monitor accounts receivable so that client payments are received within the terms of the contract and help provide information to solve payment issues as needed.
• Responsible for managing and facilitating flow of information for client related audits.
• Run reports from MBOX/Mediaocean/Prisma and Mediatools, as well as create custom reports in these systems or in Excel, including variance analysis reports, as directed.
• Respond to client billing inquiries to resolve billing discrepancies, escalate as needed.
• Analyze billing activity and be able to explain variances between approved dollars and billing, particularly as related to year-end close and closing out Purchase Orders.
• Review Shared Services discrepancy reports and Cashflow reports to ensure that vendor invoices are cleared timely and paid upon receipt of client funds.
• Ensure that key information is provided to appropriate managers and teams regarding budget management issues, escalating select issues as needed.
• Develop financial reports that are clear, concise and error free.
• Track media authorizations and compare against MBOX/Mediaocean/Prisma for variance analysis each month.
• Partner with media teams, have a positive attitude, and analytical approach and is solution oriented.

Qualifications

• Finance or accounting experience.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and clients.
• Great attention to detail and follow up.
• Ability to think ahead and ask questions.
• Bachelor's degree in general accounting preferred.
• 2+ years financial management and budget management experience, preferably within the media industry.
• Prior client management experience required.
• Team player, bright, quick learner, especially skilled with numbers and financial information.
• Strong proficiency utilizing MBOX/Mediaocean/Prisma or Donovan Data Systems, MediaTools System.
• Superior Excel skills.
• Experience in a fast paced, client service environment; high sense of urgency, positive attitude.
• Knowledge of all media types; network (television and radio), local, print, out-of-home, direct and digital.
• Ability to handle multiple clients, projects, and deadlines and a high volume of financial transactions.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to understand and establish appropriate priorities.

Pay

$80,000 - $90,000

Schedule

Minimum of three days per week in the office, unless additional in-office days are directed by agency or manager.