Managing Director, Commercial Finance

Location: New York

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June 30, 2026 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition :
R1113897
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* Job Description:

** This role is responsible for shaping financial strategy, ensuring operational discipline, and overseeing performance delivery across revenue, margin, and cost targets for a business unit within US Media, dentsu.  Overarching accountability for the quality and accuracy of forecasts and budgets, providing leadership and delivering timely, reliable insight and analysis to support business decision-making‐. This role will report directly into the CFO of Media.
** Key Responsibilities
*** Lead the development of the brand’s strategic financial plans, including long term revenue and margin outlooks, scenario pl‐anning, and investment priorities.
* Collaborated with CEO, Chief Client Officer, Ops Lead, HR Lead, Chief Growth Officer, and Portfolio leads to maintain and grow a high-performing business unit
* Own the annual budgeting, monthly close, and quarterly forecasting cycles, ensuring precision, transparency, and timely insight into performance.
* Reviews and provides strategic financial plans in partnership with business leaders
* Partners to provide insight and challenge through financial analysis to enable business partners to make key decisions and achieve targets
* Supports client and vendor negotiations by providing analytical insight and ensuring optimal balance of pricing, early payment discounts, rebates and volume commitments (where applicable)
* Provide proactive financial guidance to the CEO, CFO M‐edia, and brand leadership, challenging assumptions and reinforcing fiscal responsibility.
* Establish financial guardrails for pricing, discounts, rebate structures, and volume based‐ commitments.
* Lead and mentor a high performing‐ financial operations team, fostering analytical rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement.
* Identifies and drives operational improvement through analysis of financial plans, management information and performance
* Works with business leaders to understand short, medium and long-term resource requirements and impact on forecasts and budgets
* Supports analysis of client profitability and identifies and supports initiatives to improve profitability/margin
* Lead brand level‐ weekly/monthly business reviews, articulating trends, risks,
* Strengthen visibility and control of staff and non‐staff costs, ensuring strong discipline and accountability across the brand.
* Supports the various Group initiatives to improve OP % margin delivery through the markets / LoBs by offering timely analysis and support, providing valuable insight and costed options to improve performance and deep analysis of client/revenue trends.
* Lead operational improvement initiatives to optimize processes, reduce inefficiencies, and ensure scalable operations.
* Improves visibility and analysis around cost management processes (staff and non-staff costs), facilitates target setting and help to drive efficiencies in partnership with CEO, CFO-Media. Improves quality of analysis and forecasting of staff cost by using workday, time sheet and utilization data and working with business leaders/HR to ensure business has a solid framework for managing staff costs

EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE

REQUIRED:

· Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting
· 15+ years in finance, client finance, or commercial finance roles, ideally within media, advertising, or marketing services.
· Exceptional communication skills, able to translate complex financial matters for executive audiences.
· Independent, self-starter with problem solving skills
· Superior organization abilities and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
· Strong team collaborator with all levels of employees, management, and external agencies
· Attention to detail
· Team leadership experience and skills
· Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel  Working knowledge of Microsoft D365 preferred but not required
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