Description

About The Role

You will be joining our NA Client Finance team, specifically the Client Finance team that manages a significant NA client. Your primary role will be to liaise with the Client Services, Planning, and Activation teams as well as the rest of the Finance team and provide them with a robust set of financial data.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:
● Update and review trackers for fee billing and submit for processing in a timely manner

● Manage Month End Close for revenue recognition, maintain staff plan trackers as back-up, and open role deferrals

● Process and review pass-through, overhead, and intercompany billing

● Reconcile our fee billing accounts

● Oversee Media Operation Manager deliverables on media billing/reconciliation status and AR

● Support in PO maintenance

● Prepare quarterly time reporting deliverables for client

● Support in client margin data analysis

● Assist with quarterly forecasts for media spend and commissions

● Administration of client contracts and vendor agreement terms

● Ad Hoc client reporting for media billing estimates, minority spending, etc.

● Support client and product code setup process

A bit about yourself:

● BS/BA degree in Accounting/Finance or related field required

● Strong numerical experience with the Microsoft Office suite (Special experience or highly proficient with Microsoft Excel) and Google Workspace

● Strong and confident communicator, comfortable with dealing with both internal and external parties

● The ability to recognize and resolve problems quickly and efficiently

What you can expect from Essence

Essence’s mission is to make advertising more valuable to the world. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s digital marketing landscape. It’s important that we hire people whose values reflect those of our own: genuine, results-focused, daring and insightful. As an Essence employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do amazing work.

The base salary for this position at the time of this posting is $45,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including business needs, experience, level of responsibility and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, please visit https://www.wpp.com/people/wellbeing/benefits-at-wpp-in-the-us for more details.