Manager, Client Finance

Golin is in search of a newly created Client Finance Manager role for our Americas region. This role will support the VP, Director Client Finance and a myriad of agency stakeholders including Top Client Leaders. Providing insights, analysis, strategic counsel, and additive support for some of our most critical teams is the mission of this role.
Primary responsibilities are focused on ensuring excellence around all areas of client finance. This includes emphasis on helping support Client Teams, Local Finance team, Operations, and Commercial Team.

• CLIENT TEAM SUPPORT
  • Partner with client leaders, agency finance teams, and holding company colleagues on a variety of financial, operational, analytical, and reporting areas.
  • Review and assist with RFI's/RFPs, as required both locally and globally
  • Review SOWs and pricing to ensure business terms are accurate and in accordance with client agreements
  • Complete Client related Pricing/Reporting Templates, as required
  • Supporting large cross-office coordination needs on key clients, whether US or global
  • Partner with both local and holding company staff to develop new tools & system improvements that impact the region as a whole
  • Participate in education of client account teams and development of regional training curriculum to stay current with best practices.
• CLIENT ANALYSES
  • Provide richer and deeper insights on Key Performance indicators to help drive growth and client profitability across a variety of org structure and hierarchies
  • Partner with key stakeholders as an integral part of the rate management including rate review support, rate audit, and agency rate schedule management.
  • Partner with global, local, and holding company teams on dashboard distributions and maintenance.
  • Able to create reports with an emphasis on key insights and financial storytelling narrative both from the executive to local office level
• CLIENT FINANCIAL SERVICE
  • Ensure client financial matters are handled timely, accurately, and thoroughly on key material clients. This includes monitoring that billing, WIP, collections, approvals, cross-office coordination, and issues, etc. are all being handled efficiently and expertly. Provide warnings when things aren't tracking correctly
  • Develop and maintain local and global data repositories and reporting for client reference materials (including deal terms, ad hoc client or finance team requests).
  • Support both internal and external procurement related requests.

Desired qualifications:

• 7-10 years' experience in agency finance and financial reporting.
• Deep familiarity with Excel (Analysis a plus), SAP, and Hyperion
• Current professional/client service industry experience is strongly preferred. Public Relations, Advertising and/or Marketing agency experience is a plus
• A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or Business Degree is preferred.
• A track record of asking and answer "what's next" when it comes to thinking about new approaches and tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to deliver clear, simple and cohesive information under perpetual deadlines.
• Curiosity about what types of financial intelligence can impact the bottom-line.
• Sensitivity to issues that affect agency leadership and account leaders - and ability to translate complex financial information to an audience that's not always financially-oriented
• A willingness to "roll up your sleeves" and execute against proposed strategies

This role will report into our VP, Director Client Finance and be based in either our Chicago or New York office.

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Salary Range- $70,000-$130,000

Golin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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