Senior Manager, Media Financial Operations

Best Buy; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 93,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

BrassRing, LLC's Senior Manager, Media Financial Operations leads the financial strategy and governance behind Best Buy's media investments across enterprise marketing and Best Buy Ads. The role focuses on maximizing value and accountability of media spend through controls, reporting, and performance insights.

The position is hybrid: on-site Monday through Thursday at the Richfield, Minnesota corporate office, with Friday remote work from home or another location.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in media finance, media operations, ad operations, accounting, procurement, or related fields.
• 3+ years of direct and/or indirect leadership experience.
• Experience managing media billing, invoicing, reconciliations, and financial reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial portfolio of media investments, overseeing investment governance, spend controls, and the operational processes that keep media budgets accurate and accountable from planning through close.
• Partner with finance, media teams, agencies, advertisers, and media partners to ensure media investments align with contractual terms, budget commitments, and established performance and service expectations.
• Oversee media investment reconciliation by validating delivered media against booked plans, resolving delivery and cost discrepancies, and managing makegoods and under delivery to protect investment value.
• Deliver actualized spend reporting, budget tracking, and financial insights to finance, media leadership, and business stakeholders to strengthen decision-making, forecasting, and investment planning.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and operational efficiencies that sharpen investment accuracy, reduce manual effort, and scale media financial operations as the business grows.
• 7+ years of experience in media finance, media operations, ad operations, accounting, procurement, or related fields.
• Experience leading process improvement or operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Media finance

Leadership

Billing

Invoicing

Reconciliations

Tools

Prisma

Placements.io

Workfront

SAP

Job description

Senior Manager, Media Financial Operations

Full time

Regular

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Media Financial Operations leads the financial strategy and operational discipline behind Best Buy's media investments across enterprise marketing and Best Buy Ads. This role is responsible for maximizing the value and accountability of media spend through strong investment governance, financial controls, and performance reporting. Working closely with finance, media teams, agencies, vendors, and account teams, this leader ensures media dollars are deployed effectively, tracked with precision, and reported in ways that inform smarter investment decisions across the campaign lifecycle. This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Monday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you'll do

• Lead the financial portfolio of media investments, overseeing investment governance, spend controls, and the operational processes that keep media budgets accurate and accountable from planning through close.


• Partner with finance, media teams, agencies, advertisers, and media partners to ensure media investments align with contractual terms, budget commitments, and established performance and service expectations.


• Oversee media investment reconciliation by validating delivered media against booked plans, resolving delivery and cost discrepancies, and managing makegoods and under delivery to protect investment value.


• Deliver actualized spend reporting, budget tracking, and financial insights to finance, media leadership, and business stakeholders to strengthen decision-making, forecasting, and investment planning.


• Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and operational efficiencies that sharpen investment accuracy, reduce manual effort, and scale media financial operations as the business grows.


• 7+ years of experience in media finance, media operations, ad operations, accounting, procurement, or related fields.


• 3+ years of direct and/or indirect leadership experience.


• Experience managing media billing, invoicing, reconciliations, and financial reporting processes.


• Experience partnering with agencies, vendors, and cross-functional finance teams.


• Experience leading process improvement or operational excellence initiatives.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in retail media, digital advertising, marketing operations, or media agency environments.


• Knowledge of media buying, insertion orders, purchase orders, billing systems, and financial controls.


• Experience with media management, workflow, or financial systems such as Prisma, Placements.io, Workfront, SAP, or similar platforms.


• Experience supporting budget forecasting, investment planning, and financial analysis.


• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and process automation skills.

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

• Competitive pay


• Great employee discount


• Financial savings and retirement resources


• Support for your physical and mental well-being


• Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.


• Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.


• For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

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