Advertising Media Finance Manager

We’re looking for a Finance Manager to join our Operations Area.

When you come work with us, here’s what you’ll find:

Work that is meaningful. We are a fast-paced, deadline-driven consulting firm that only works with nonprofit clients who are essential to advancing the cause of justice, alleviating suffering, and solving the greatest challenges we face.

Commitment to Anti-Racism, Equity, and Inclusion (AEI). We envision an anti-oppressive workplace that ensures an inclusive employee experience, promotes equitable outcomes for staff, and supports clients to center accessibility and anti-racism in their programs.

Colleagues you can count on. Kind, dedicated, passionate people who work collaboratively to get things done and help you do your best.

An organization that embraces change. We strive to improve and adapt and always seek new ways that we can contribute to a just, inclusive, and sustainable world. We are also continually working on making M+R a better place for our staff.

So that’s us. Now about the work:

If this is for Shared Services:

• The Finance Manager is part of our Shared Services Area -- composed of five specializations: finance, operations, people, marketing, and AEI. We ensure M+R is positioned to deliver outstanding services to clients such as Planned Parenthood, Feeding America, International Rescue Committee, NRDC, and many more.
• Day-to-day, we focus on legal and regulatory compliance and risk management, and operational policies and procedures, contract processing, and IT tools and security.

Here’s what you’ll be doing in this role:

• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A):
  • 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.
• Order to Cash Cycle Management & Optimization:
  • 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.
  • Quality control of media buys (product names, PO’s, I/O’s, system set up, etc.)
• Partnership & Reporting:
  • 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.
  • Participate in internal and external audit support as required.
• Process Improvement:
  • Identify and implement improvements to media financial processes, reporting tools, and control environments to enhance efficiency, accuracy and timeliness of reporting.
  • Track real-time spending against original estimates, providing early-warning signals when projects risk going over budget.

Skills and experiences required for this role:

• 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.

We love hearing from anyone who strives to make the world a better place! Not sure if you meet all of the qualifications? There is no harm in applying! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply!

Skills and experiences we expect of all M+R employees:

• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism, equity, and inclusion.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to gain trust and give respect to others through honesty, integrity, kindness, empathy, and authenticity.
• Acute attention to detail and demonstrated ability to prioritize time to meet deadlines for multiple projects.
• Proven track record to successfully pick up new skills, including learning new technologies.
• Drive to seek what can be improved and offer ways to fix any potential roadblocks.
• Comfort admitting what you don’t know and recognizing that feedback is part of the learning process.
• Strong ability to relay your ideas clearly verbally and in writing.
• Able to work within equitable and inclusive decision making models in moving decisions and initiatives forward.

Skills and experiences that are preferred, but not required:

• Experience with Workday Adaptive, Sage Intacct, and PaperSave.

Salary and benefits:

This is an exempt status position. The salary for this position is $113,891. As part of M+R’s commitment to compensation equity and transparency, we have a no-negotiation policy. Salary negotiations can introduce bias and perpetuate wage inequality. If your years of relevant experience for this position are more than what is required above, we may offer a higher starting salary to reflect that, and compensation will be discussed more in depth in the initial interview.

We also offer a generous benefits package:

• 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.

The fine print:

M+R is currently able to hire candidates who reside in the following states: AK, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, KS, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, VA, DC, WA, WI, WY. If you do not live in a state where we are currently registered, we may not be able to hire you for a currently open position. However, we welcome you to apply and if we are able to hire in your state we will contact you.

Staff working from an M+R office must be vaccinated against COVID-19, and all staff will be asked to provide their vaccine status.

To apply, use the button on this page. No calls, please.

Our Hiring Process:

We aim to be transparent and efficient in our hiring process. Each question you will be asked throughout our hiring process ties directly back to one of the skills and experiences listed above. In each interview, you will be asked to provide examples of these skills and experiences or how you would draw on your experience to handle a scenario commonly found at M+R. Our typical hiring process includes:

1) Phone Interview

2) Video Interview(s)

3) Reference Check

Depending on logistics and scheduling, our hiring process generally takes about 6 weeks from phone interview to a job offer. There is no application deadline; we review applications on a rolling basis. M+R has developed an application stage informational document that some candidates may find helpful. We let candidates know after each step in the process, once we’ve made a decision, whether they are moving forward to the next stage or not, so candidates know the status of their application. If you need accommodations for this application process or any of the hiring process steps listed above, please email accommodations@mrss.com or call 202-681-8743.