Senior Marketing Finance & Ops Manager
The Trade Desk•New York, NY
About The Position
The Trade Desk is a global technology company and the world’s leading independent platform for digital advertising. This role is for a Senior Manager, Marketing Finance & Operations who will help run the finance operating cadence for Marketing investments. This includes driving the rhythms, rigor, and tooling that enable teams to plan, forecast, procure, and report with speed and accuracy. The role sits at the intersection of Marketing leadership, Finance/FP&A, Procurement, Accounting/AP, and Legal/CLM. The individual will be accountable for improving forecast discipline, spend visibility, and end-to-end workflow compliance across Marketing.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of experience in FP&A, marketing finance, business operations, or a related analytical function (B2B / technology preferred).
- Demonstrated experience running budgeting/forecasting cadences, building reporting, and supporting close/variance narratives with senior stakeholders.
- Analytical, high-ownership mindset with ability to solve complex problems through modeling, analysis, and data-driven recommendations.
- Curious and hands-on with technology—able to scale analysis and processes using Excel, BI tools, and AI capabilities (e.g., building lightweight automations, rapid prototypes, or AI-assisted workflows).
- Excellent communication skills, including experience driving process adoption/change management across distributed stakeholders.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to operate independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong working knowledge of procure-to-pay concepts: contracting/approvals, PR/PO, invoicing, supplier onboarding, and compliance expectations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to Marketing leaders across brand, creative, product marketing, and operations—supporting forecasting, planning, and performance management.
- Build strong working relationships across FP&A, Procurement, Legal/CLM, Accounting/AP, and systems partners to drive faster resolution of issues and continuous improvement.
- Own key components of the marketing budget, including monthly and quarterly forecasting, variance analysis, and identifying risks/opportunities to drive better financial outcomes.
- Support annual planning and in-year reallocation decisions through structured analysis, scenario modeling, and cross-functional alignment.
- Build and maintain dashboards to track key marketing and financial KPIs; translate complex datasets into actionable insights that inform investment decisions and improve efficiency.
- Define KPI logic and operating triggers (e.g., burn-rate risks, underspend/overspend flags, forecast accuracy), and drive follow-through with stakeholders.
- Prepare monthly/quarterly reporting and executive-ready presentations that clearly communicate performance, insights, and recommendations.
- Partner on evaluation and management of marketing technology and external vendors, including business cases, procurement processes, and ongoing spend optimization.
- Bring an analytical, curious mindset to experimenting with AI and automation to improve productivity and scale repeatable processes (e.g., month-end data hygiene, variance narrative support, commentary synthesis, workflow reminders), and translate successful pilots into durable team routines.
- Identify data inconsistencies or gaps, determine root causes, and implement scalable solutions to improve data accuracy, reporting quality, and operational efficiency.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents
- Retirement benefits such as a 401k plan and company match
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Well-being benefits
- Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
- Parental leave
- Sick time of 1 hour per 30 hours worked
- Vacation time for full-time employees up to 120 hours thru the first year and 160 hours thereafter
- Around 13 paid holidays per year
- Employees can also purchase The Trade Desk stock at a discount through The Trade Desk’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Stock-based compensation grants
- Variable compensation-based incentives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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