About the Role
We are seeking an experienced leader to spearhead the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning for the North America Content at S4 Capital. This newly established role, preferably based in New York, will report directly to the CFO of North America Content. As the Senior Director Financial Planning and Analysis, North America, you will drive the financial planning and analysis function, ensuring that the business has the necessary data and insights to achieve its ambitious growth targets. Your responsibilities will include supporting investment and strategic decisions, developing forecasting tools, and setting clear, measurable targets.
This role is a New York City (32 Old Slip #705. New York, NY 10005.), hybrid role!
Responsibilities:
- Develop and lead a cutting-edge financial planning function, ensuring the financial ambition is grounded in solid, and well understood, commercials
- Business partner that will work closely with senior stakeholders (including Content CFO, CEO, Chief Client Officers and COO) to ensure the Content practice provides accurate and timely forecasts, and hits all strategic milestones.
- Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders, including the Content CFO, CEO, Chief Client Officers, and COO, to provide accurate, timely forecasts and meet strategic objectives.
- Translate financial data into actionable insights and operational plans to support key stakeholders in advancing the business.
- Create and enhance tools for customer and insights reporting, as well as for net revenue and cost reporting, leveraging Salesforce.
- Development of tools for customer / insights reporting, and Salesforce, for net revenue and related cost reporting.
- Lead on the development of a finance business partnering approach with stakeholders, developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
- Lead on the preparation of materials for the Content Exec team, and other governance meetings as appropriate
About You
- Minimum 8+ years of Financial Planning and Analysis work experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- Proven track record of influencing strategic business decisions and driving significant performance improvements.
- Extensive experience in building and leading FP&A teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with a deep understanding of the interplay between key financial and non-financial business drivers.
- Demonstrated ability to add value and lead decision-making in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
- Experience managing business performance across multiple regions and supporting international expansion.
- A qualified accountant is preferred but not required.
- Expertise in developing tools to enhance forecasting accuracy.
- Proven experience leading teams in complex, matrixed environments.
- Ability to work proactively and independently under tight deadlines in a fast-paced setting.
- Skilled in creating structure and maintaining focus amidst ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Excellent financial acumen, analytical thinking, and communication skills.
- Strong analytical capabilities and sound judgment.
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At Media.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
Benefits
- Excellent, full coverage medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer-paid HRA
- Generous PTO and 15 company-wide holidays
- 401k with company contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Work-life balance with an emphasis on personal well-being
- Career growth in a disruptor space & entrepreneurial opportunities within the Media.Monks network
- A globally diverse & inclusive culture with employee resource groups such as S4 Melanin, Pride.Monks, Cultura.Monks, and more!
- Authentic commitment to DEI efforts and sustainable growth. (Why Sir Martin Sorrell signed The Climate Pledge here!)
Media.Monks has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what Media.Monks may pay for the position at the time of posting. Media.Monks may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on job-related factors, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Salary Range
$170,000—$190,000 USD
Decoded, now part of Media.Monks and S4Capital, is a full-funnel marketing, advertising and design company creating breakthrough campaigns with unrivaled performance. Challenging convention, it took some of the best talent from strategy, creative, media, design and the DTC world and put together a new way of working to bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimizations and commerce. Decoded services global clients like T-Mobile, Intuit, Visa, CareerBuilder and SC Johnson from its offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Decoded Advertising is a new kind of agency, built from the ground up by award winning creatives, top data scientists and cutting-edge media people willing to defect from the old agency model to create smarter work. Decoded has the first truly integrated creative, tech and media process designed to drive better performance for clients by uncovering the levers that produce powerful ideas and drive real media performance. A spirit of curiosity, relentless creativity and data informed decision making define our culture and people.
In everything you do, you will be data driven at heart, leveraging core statistical principles to help us separate the signal from the noise, and ensure your strategic decisions are backed with analytical rigor.
Values
MISFITS WELCOME.
We don’t want more of us, we need more of you. Because building something new requires new inputs, perspectives, personalities, skill sets. Helmets available upon request.
STAY CURIOUS.
Adventures don’t start with answers. We move forward by questioning, wondering and learning. We ask “why” and “what if.” Together, we’ll discover what’s next for creativity, media and marketing.
BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO FAIL.
Innovation requires experimentation. Experimentation relishes failure. With a bias toward action, leaps of faith and even some discomfort, chase down ideas, try new things – we got you.
IDEAS OVER EGOS.
In order to uncover what works, we need to make. A lot. So we put ideas above all else: titles, egos, pedigree be damned. We all work in service of great ideas.
TAKE PRIDE IN EVERYTHING YOU.
This is our company. Everything you do represents all of us. Obsess the details, sweat the charts, invest in your ideas. Let’s build something to be proud of, piece by piece.
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What We Do
An independent full-funnel marketing, advertising and design company, Decoded creates breakthrough campaigns that make brands perform. Challenging convention, it took some of the best talent from strategy, creative, media, design and the DTC world and put together a new way of working to bridge the gap between meaningful storytelling, data-led optimizations and commerce. Decoded services global clients like T-Mobile, Intuit, Visa, WW and SC Johnson from its offices in New York and Los Angeles.
