Finance Manager, FP&A/Client Finance

wecommunications; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

wecommunications is seeking a Finance Manager, FP&A/Client Finance to own the commercial and financial health of a major global client relationship. The role partners with global client leads, market leaders, finance, and resource teams to translate account plans into staffing, pricing, and growth decisions, creating a unified view of performance and financial constructs across markets.

Reporting to the Finance Director, North America, this role has a global scope and will drive forecasting,

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of progressive client finance/FP&A experience in marketing/communications environment.
• Experience leading forecasting, planning, and monthly financial reporting across regions.
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills to translate financial data to non-financial audiences.
• People management experience (2–3 years) is required.
• Experience coordinating with global offices and affiliates.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the day-to-day finance lead for the client account across regions, partnering with account leadership on financial matters.
• Coordinate forecast and close activity with NA, EMEA, and APAC finance leads to provide a global view of performance.
• Provide clear financial insight on revenue, margin, staffing, scope, and billing with recommended actions.
• Own forecasting, planning, and monthly financial reporting for the client account.
• Lead month-end close including revenue, costs, accruals, intercompany activity, and project financials.
• Monitor profitability, staffing mix, utilization, fees, and contribution margin across regions.

Skills

Finance leadership

Forecasting

Budgeting

Variance analysis

Communication

People management

Cross-functional partnership

Job description

About Us

At We. , we've spent decades at the intersection of technology and humanity, bridging the gap between what businesses create and how people experience those creations. We've learned that beneath even the most unruly situations - whether it's a global crisis, an emerging technology, or a sweeping organizational change-lies a simple human need. That need could be for trust, connection, safety, or a sense of purpose. But it's always there. And it is only by uncovering these truths that we can make real, meaningful progress.

About the Role

The Finance Manager, FP&A/Client Finance will own the commercial and financial health of one of the agency's largest global client relationships. They will partner with global client leads, market leaders, finance, and resource teams to turn account plans into sound staffing, pricing, and account growth decisions. In addition, they will create one clear view of performance and financial constructs across markets and affiliate partners and then use it to help teams grow client value and agency profitability.

While this role will report to the Finance Director, North America it does have a global scope.

Responsibilities

Client Finance Leadership & Business Partnership

Serve as the day-to-day finance lead for the client account across all regions partnering closely with account leadership on financial and commercial matters.

Coordinate forecast and close activity with finance leads in NA, EMEA and APAC and provide a consistent global view of financial performance for the client account.

Provide clear financial insight to account leaders, identifying risks, opportunities, and actions related to revenue, margin, staffing, scope, and billing.

Participate in regular leadership, forecasting, staffing, scoping, and business performance discussions and escape material issues with appropriate context and recommended actions.

Global Account Financial Planning

Own forecasting, planning, and monthly financial reporting across all regions for the client account.

Lead month-end close activities for the client account, including revenue, costs, accruals, intercompany activity, and project financials.

Analyze actual performance versus forecast and budget, explain key variances, and drive follow-up actions.

Monitor project and client profitability, staffing mix, utilization, fee and OOP performance, contribution margin, profit margin, and other key financial indicators

Commercial and Scope Management

Drive staff and capacity planning. Translate scopes and growth plans into staffing models by market, discipline, and seniority. Work with client and resource leads to identify gaps, excess capacity, utilization pressure, and better ways to deploy teams.

Coordinate across markets and affiliates. Create a dependable global picture of fees, across all teams (and regions) working the business and across affiliate arrangements. Work hand in hand with business client leads to onboard new affiliate partners from a finance perspective.

Simplify how the business runs. Standardize the planning, reporting, and approval steps that global accounts need; reduce duplicate trackers and manual reconciliations; and improve the quality of data available for decisions. Identify ways to update client leads on spend throughout the month and work to deliver monthly financial updates/billing for clients.

Participate in a cross-functional team to manage the agency's compliance with client requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of progressive client finance / FP&A experience in marketing/communications firm with focus on financial analysis, planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Heavy emphasis on operational finance and management reporting experience needed. Familiarity with relational databases and cube logic would be very helpful.
• Experience overseeing/owning financials (and preferably operations) of a large global client working with agency offices in multiple countries. Interaction with offices globally requires respect of cultural variances.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, with proven talent to distill complex financial information into digestible insights and formats. Proven ability to translate financial information to a non-financial oriented audience is critical.
• Must have minimum 2-3 years of people management experience
• Customer Service orientation is a must
• Ability to multi-task a must - job requires juggling many competing priorities
• Fast paced team environment (frequent tight deadlines, multitasking, etc.)
• Ability to work independently
• Proven mentor and team developer

Compensation

The base annual salary range for this role, applicable across all U.S. locations, is outlined below. The actual salary may vary based on several factors such as business requirements, job responsibilities, skills, experience, and geographical location.

Salary Range $100,000 - $130,000 USD

Benefits

As part of our commitment to the success and well-being of our team