Senior Director, Client Finance
About The Position
Orchestra is seeking a highly skilled, experienced Senior Director, Client Finance to provide financial leadership, mitigate business risks, partner with business leaders, and lead projects central to the company’s short- and long-term growth and profitability initiatives. The role is part of a dynamic, fast-paced team and requires strong attention to detail, adaptability, and cross-functional collaboration. The position is based in Orchestra’s New York, NY office on a hybrid basis. The Finance team works in-office at least three days per week. The Senior Director will support financial operations and client finance across the business, including acquisition integrations, forecasting, budgets, profitability analysis, and process improvement. The role also mentors and trains the client finance team and leads the monthly revenue review process.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in finance or accounting.
- Experience with NetSuite or similar accounting/ERP packages, such as SAP, Anaplan, or Oracle.
- Deep understanding of financial accounting, profit and loss, 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, and handle deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
- Self-starter with a growth mindset who is both a doer and a teacher.
- History of effective team management and leadership, ideally in a high-growth, dynamic organization.
- Ability to identify root causes and solve problems for the long term, including developing practical solutions when needed.
- Consulting- and client-service-oriented mindset and ability to foster positive internal and external working relationships.
- Comfort working with multiple stakeholders and managing their expectations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience creating executive-level summary presentations.
Nice To Haves
- Agency or client services experience in advertising, PR, communications, media, or legal.
- Government contract experience.
- Working knowledge of media finance and operations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and present monthly and quarterly management reports, forward projections, and variance explanations to executive leadership.
- Identify opportunities and provide strategic counsel to managing directors on business decisions, including capacity management, client profitability, and new business proposals.
- Develop and implement financial operations integration plans for acquisitions, ensuring alignment with business strategy, systems, processes, and controls.
- Maintain client-level financial forecasts for new acquisitions and the digital business unit, indicate potential headcount needs, and provide financial modeling.
- Create and lead reports that identify improvement opportunities across practices or clients, and recommend solutions that extend beyond individual accounts.
- Lead annual budgets, including year-over-year analysis and modeling.
- Review expenses, accounts receivable, pre-billing, and work in progress for managed practices.
- Manage vendor selection and relationships, including system implementations with the wider finance team.
- Work with operations and client teams to identify, design, implement, and manage policy and process updates.
- Drive ad hoc strategic and operational analyses or projects.
- Mentor and train the client finance team and lead the monthly revenue review process.
- Set expectations for junior staff, monitor delegated work, and motivate others to perform well.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
