Senior Manager, Media Financial Operations

About the role

The Senior Manager, Media Financial Operations leads the financial strategy and operational discipline behind Best Buy's media investments across enterprise marketing and Best Buy Ads. This role is responsible for maximizing the value and accountability of media spend through strong investment governance, financial controls, and performance reporting. Working closely with finance, media teams, agencies, vendors, and account teams, this leader ensures media dollars are deployed effectively, tracked with precision, and reported in ways that inform smarter investment decisions across the campaign lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial portfolio of media investments, overseeing investment governance, spend controls, and the operational processes that keep media budgets accurate and accountable from planning through close.
• Partner with finance, media teams, agencies, advertisers, and media partners to ensure media investments align with contractual terms, budget commitments, and established performance and service expectations.
• Oversee media investment reconciliation by validating delivered media against booked plans, resolving delivery and cost discrepancies, and managing makegoods and under delivery to protect investment value.
• Deliver actualized spend reporting, budget tracking, and financial insights to finance, media leadership, and business stakeholders to strengthen decision‑making, forecasting, and investment planning.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and operational efficiencies that sharpen investment accuracy, reduce manual effort, and scale media financial operations as the business grows.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in media finance, media operations, ad operations, accounting, procurement, or related fields.
• 3+ years of direct and/or indirect leadership experience.
• Experience managing media billing, invoicing, reconciliations, and financial reporting processes.
• Experience partnering with agencies, vendors, and cross‑functional finance teams.
• Experience leading process improvement or operational excellence initiatives.