Client Finance Analyst

The Client Finance Analyst is the primary day-to-day contact for the financial and operational matters detailed below. Client Finance Analyst acts as the representative of agency finance and interacts regularly with the project management and account teams as well as agencies’ shared service center and clients where appropriate. The Client Finance Analyst is responsible for proactive job cost management and for the successful completion of the tasks below for their assigned clients. The Client Finance Analyst must understand and comply with client contracts as they relate to compensation, billing, compliance, financial reporting and other deliverables.

ROLES

Job Management

• Manage all billable and non-billable job opening, closing, and locking as appropriate. Communicate job numbers to team members as needed.

Billing

• Coordinate monthly billings with shared service center to ensure billing is completed timely and within client billing timing. Check invoice for accuracy and ensure the integrity of client billing contract requirements.

Administrative

• Perform administrative duties involving data entry and effectively managing adhoc requests for assigned accounts.

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Day-to-day financial management of accounts.
• Job maintenance (opening, closing and locking jobs as appropriate).
• Proactively manage all billable and non-billable jobs (including media).
• Work with agency teams in order to collect and enter estimates.
• Follow up on estimate approval status and necessary revisions.
• Manage and report on estimate vs actual for all jobs, taking appropriate action when WIP is at risk.
• Monitor OOP expenses and prepare necessary job-to-job expense transfers.
• Monitor open purchase orders and ensure vendor invoices are received timely.
• Continually manage WIP exposure.
• Monitor labor hours against correct jobs and prepare transfers as appropriate.
• Effectively communicate job numbers to teams as appropriate.
• Communicate areas of concern and follow up until resolved.
• Schedule and lead monthly billing/job status meetings.
• Coordinate monthly billings with shared service center – ensure billing is completed timely and within client billing deadlines, check invoices for accuracy and ensure the integrity of client billing contract requirements.
• Monitor AR collection - pursue timely collection with continuous client follow up and escalate collections issues as necessary.
• Prepare and analyze monthly Accounts Receivable (AR) and Work in Process (WIP) reports.

EDUCATION

• DEGREE/DIPLOMA: Bachelors
• AREA OF STUDY: Accounting/Finance
• MIN EXPERIENCE: 2-4 year(s)
• AREA OF EXPERIENCE: Accounting/Finance

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Microsoft Excel
• Proficient in advanced functions and formulas to perform VLOOKUP, pivot tables, charts, graphs and data capture
• SAP (Accounting System)

About MRM

MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency that delivers transformative creative solutions at the intersection of business, culture, and technology. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way, to allow for greater collaboration and velocity—all to the service of helping businesses grow meaningful relationships with people. MRM is part of McCann Worldgroup and the Interpublic Group of companies (NYSE: IPG), and spans 35 offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com.

The salary range for this position is $45,000 to $160,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; the associated discipline; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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