Senior Director, Client Finance

The role

The Senior Director, Client Finance provides financial leadership and mitigates business risks. This person will partner with business leaders on projects central to growth and profitability initiatives.

What you will do

• Develop and present monthly and quarterly management reporting, forward projections, and variance explanations to executive leadership
• Provide strategic counsel to managing directors on business decisions
• Develop and implement integration plans for the financial operations of acquisitions
• Maintain client-level financial forecasts for new acquisitions and the digital business unit
• Create and lead reports to identify areas of improvement across practices or clients
• Lead annual budgets with YoY analysis and modeling
• Review expenses, AR, pre-billing and WIP for managed practices
• Manage vendor selection and relationships, including system implementations
• Work with operations and client teams to design and manage policy and process updates
• Mentor and train the client finance team and drive the monthly revenue review process

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in finance or accounting
• Experience in NetSuite or similar accounting/ERP packages (SAP, Anaplan, Oracle)
• Deep understanding of financial accounting, P&L, balance sheet management and revenue recognition methodologies
• Strong financial analysis and planning skills with demonstrated business acumen
• Ability to manage workloads, prioritize and streamline tasks while juggling deadlines
• Self-starter with a growth mindset
• History of effective team management and leadership
• Ability to find the root cause of an issue and problem-solve
• Consulting and client service-oriented mindset
• Comfort working with multiple stakeholders and managing their expectations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Agency or client services experience (advertising, PR, communications, media or legal)
• Government contract experience
• Working knowledge of media finance and operations

Before you apply

• Information submitted may be shared with network agencies
• Information may be kept on file to contact you regarding job opportunities, recruitment events and other related updates

About the company

Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company made up of leading firms including BerlinRosen, Civitas Public Affairs Group, Derris, Glen Echo Group, Inkhouse, M18, Message Lab, Onward and Small Girls PR.