[Hiring] Media Finance Coordinator @McGarrah Jessee

Role Description

The Media Finance Coordinator supports the day-to-day financial management of client media investments across television, radio, out-of-home, digital, and other media channels. The role serves as a key liaison between Media, Client Finance, and Agency Accounting teams.

The Coordinator is responsible for preparing accurate client media billing, reconciling/making vendor invoice payments, and maintaining budget-versus-actual reporting, and tracking unbilled media costs for month-end accruals.

What you'll be doing:

• Cross-functional partnership
  • Serve as a day-to-day finance contact for Media Planning and Buying teams regarding billing, vendor invoices, budgets, and reconciliation status.
  • Manage the Accounts Payables to facilitate accurate vendor-invoice processing and discrepancy resolution.
  • Participate in recurring account financial meetings and provide updates on billing status, missing invoices, budget variances, and open reconciliation items.
  • Communicate financial issues clearly and professionally to colleagues who may not have a finance or accounting background.
  • Escalate material budget risks, billing delays, unreconciled balances, and process-control issues to the appropriate manager.
  • Support internal, client, and external audit requests by retrieving billing, reconciliation, order, and approval documentation.
  • Prepare recurring budget-versus-actual reports for Media & Finance leadership.
• Vendor Invoice Reconciliation
  • Ensure reconciled vendor invoices are processed within established payment and client-billing deadlines communicated from Client Media teams.
  • Reconcile vendor invoices against executed media activity.
  • Work with Client Media teams to confirm that vendor invoices are assigned to the correct client, campaign, estimate, product, media channel, and accounting period.
  • Help to identify missing, duplicate, incorrectly coded, or disputed vendor invoices.
  • When needed, partner with media buyers and vendors to aid in researching any quantity, timing, coding, or delivery discrepancies.
  • Support Media Client teams to track vendor credits, make goods, invoice revisions, billing adjustments, and disputed amounts through final resolution.
• Client Media Billing
  • Coordinate billing approvals with Media Planning and Buying Client teams.
  • Prepare accurate and timely client media billing in accordance with approved media plans, client authorizations, billing schedules, and contractual requirements.
  • Validate billing amounts against Media Client teams approved budgets, media orders, campaign periods.
  • Respond to routine internal and client-team questions regarding media invoices, billing status, and supporting documentation.
  • Maintain a detailed billing calendar and tracker documenting invoices prepared, submitted, approved, billed, held, or requiring additional support.
  • Identify potential billing delays, missing approvals, insufficient documentation, to escalate.

Qualifications

• Experience with Mediaocean platforms—including Prisma—is ideal but not required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.

Requirements

• This is a remote position.