Manager, Commercial Finance

Digitas North America; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas North America is seeking a Commercial Finance specialist to join our team and drive data-driven decision-making across staffing, remuneration, and platform monetization. You will partner with agency and business development leaders to support commercial offers and templates, ensuring profitability and timely submissions.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in advertising finance or analytics, strong Excel/BI skills, and experience onboarding new clients.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of advertising agency experience; finance, operations, or analytics background preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel, Power Point, BI, and Co-Pilot (use of AI).
• Experience in working with business development teams or new client onboarding.
• Collaborative and highly communicative, ability to work within a team and across multiple groups
• Excellent problem-solving skills and multi-tasker
• A data driven individual; must be a self-starter that can balance competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Agency and PM Business Development teams to respond to Commercial requirements and templates within RFPs.
• Liaison with US and global market teams to brief and gather staffing and remuneration details necessary to complete consultant remuneration templates in accordance with timelines
• Accurately represent and track remuneration details and data needed for commercial submissions
• Understand the deals and profitability and provide support to team with concrete data and metrics.
• Support in the development of new commercial models, in particular monetization for platforms and value-based pricing.
• Support Commercial reporting workstreams in partnership with client finance and business development.
• Transitioning newly awarded business into the agency in partnership with client finance and operations.

Skills

Advertising finance

Excel

PowerPoint

BI

Co-Pilot AI

Team collaboration

Problem-solving

Data-driven

Job description

Company Description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

Overview

The Commercial Finance Team within Digitas plays an important role in the success of New Business and Agency commercials. This central team is responsible for establishing commercial offers and contracts that drive value and mitigate risk across staffing and remuneration, and tools and technology. We are seeking a finance and business focused individual, with a healthy knowledge of the advertising ecosystem to join our growing team and support in data and model management.

This position offers an unmatched opportunity to work closely with agency leadership, and across all agency brands, to inform commercial decision-making, improve operations, and drive success. The ideal candidate has worked in a strategic capacity, is collaborative within a team environment and has a proven record of problem solving and implementing workflow processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Agency and PM Business Development teams to respond to Commercial requirements and templates within RFPs.
• Liaison with US and global market teams to brief and gather staffing and remuneration details necessary to complete consultant remuneration templates in accordance with timelines
• Accurately represent and track remuneration details and data needed for commercial submissions
• Understand the deals and profitability and provide support to team with concrete data and metrics.
• Support in the development of new commercial models, in particular monetization for platforms and value-based pricing.
• Support Commercial reporting workstreams in partnership with client finance and business development.
• Transitioning newly awarded business into the agency in partnership with client finance and operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ Years of advertising agency experience; finance, operations, or analytics background preferred.
• Proficiency in Excel, Power Point, BI, and Co-Pilot (use of AI).
• Experience in working with business development teams or new client onboarding.
• Collaborative and highly communicative, ability to work within a team and across multiple groups
• Excellent problem-solving skills and multi-tasker
• A data driven individual; must be a self-starter that can balance competing priorities.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $75,050.00 - USD $115,024.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/1/2027.