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This role partners closely with Investment, Finance, Accounting, Master Data Management, and Shared Services teams across multiple media types, with primary support focused on National Linear and Digital operations.\nThe Manager will lead and improve the processes that govern client media schedules, billings, payables, receivables, reconciliations, and month-end close activities. This includes maintaining strong controls, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness, resolving operational issues, and providing visibility into aging, open invoices, trade balances, and other financial risks.\nThe ideal candidate is a proactive, detail-oriented financial operations professional with strong media-industry experience. They must be comfortable integrating data from multiple systems and sources; translating findings into clear reporting and recommendations; and managing cross-functional dependencies in a fast-paced environment. This role also provides guidance and development support to junior team members and reports to the Associate Director, Finance Operations.\nKey Responsibilities\nManage day-to-day Finance Operations workflows, including the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and compliance of financial data entered and maintained in media systems.\nServe as a key liaison among Investment, Finance, Accounting, Shared Services, Master Data Management, and other business stakeholders.\nLead Finance Operations activities across an assigned agency, client, vendor, and/or centralized activity portfolio, which may include National Linear, Digital, Programmatic, Print, Out of Home, billing, vendor payments, reconciliations, aging, reporting, and data-integrity workflows.\nLead month-end close activities, including preparation, review, and submission of upload files for Mediaocean and related financial systems.\nManage and review reconciliations across media payables, prepaid media, accounts receivable, trade owed balances, billing activity, and other financial operational accounts.\nLead the preparation, review, and escalation of aged balances generated from the media system, including regular monthly aging reviews with business teams and Finance leadership.\nPartner with Accounting to ensure media-system balances reconcile to the balance sheet and that discrepancies are researched, resolved, and appropriately documented.\nPartner with Client Finance to manage intercompany workflows, transactions, and related reconciliation requirements.\nOversee vendor open-invoice statement maintenance, payment tracking, invoice reconciliation, discrepancy research, reversals, and issue resolution in partnership with Shared Services.\nManage and monitor Matchpay invoice approval workflows across relevant media types.\nOversee the timely and accurate execution of National affidavits, invoice gross-ups, invoice revisions, MBOX/live bill entries, and related billing and reconciliation activities; review exceptions, resolve escalations, and ensure appropriate controls and documentation are maintained.\nCreate, maintain, and enhance Orion-specific trackers, reporting outputs, and templates using Excel, internal databases, and reporting tools.\nDevelop clear reporting on the completion, progression, risks, and outstanding items associated with operational and financial workflows.\nIdentify process gaps, control risks, missing information, or recurring data issues; establish solutions and escalate issues that may impact financial timelines, client billing, vendor payment, or business operations.\nDrive process improvement initiatives that strengthen controls, improve workflow efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance visibility across interconnected operational processes.\nPartner with Master Data Management teams to support vendor, client, product-code, and other master-data setup and maintenance needs.\nEstablish and maintain clear workflow ownership, service expectations, handoffs, and escalation paths across assigned portfolios and operational activities; monitor workload, turnaround times, outstanding items, and process dependencies, and proactively rebalance work or escalate capacity and delivery risks as needed.\nMaintain process documentation, controls, and backup coverage to ensure continuity of critical Finance Operations activities.\nBuild and maintain positive, professional relationships with cross-functional business stakeholders.\nGuide, train, and develop junior Finance Operations team members; set priorities, provide direction and quality review, build subject-matter expertise and support resolution of complex workflows and escalations.\nPartner with GCC and Shared Services to coordinate delegated activities and handoffs; review output quality and completeness; resolve exceptions; and ensure timely follow-up for invoice approvals, vendor payments, affidavits, revisions, and related billing support across the assigned portfolio.\nSupport ad hoc Finance Operations analyses, reporting needs, and business initiatives as needed.\nDesired Skills & Experience\nExperience\n6+ years of experience in Finance Operations, media finance, accounting operations, or a related field, including accounts receivable and accounts payable responsibilities.\nMedia-industry experience required; experience supporting media buying, billing, reconciliation, or stewardship workflows strongly preferred.\nExperience with media buying and financial systems required; Mediaocean experience, including PRISMA and/or MBOX, is strongly preferred.\nExperience managing complex reconciliations, aging, financial close processes, and cross-functional operational dependencies.\nExperience managing relationships and issue resolution across cross-functional stakeholders, shared-service teams, agencies/clients, and/or media vendors.\nPrior experience guiding, training, or overseeing junior staff is preferred.\nSkills\nAdvanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, data analysis, and template development; proficiency with PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office applications.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, and data-reconciliation skills, with the ability to interpret information from multiple systems and sources.\nDemonstrated ability to identify operational risks, investigate discrepancies, implement process improvements, and drive issues through resolution.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings and recommendations to both operational and Finance leadership stakeholders.\nAbility to translate complex operational and financial issues into clear action plans, ownership assignments, status updates, and escalation recommendations for varied stakeholder audiences.\nExceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, accuracy, and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.\nStrong understanding of financial controls and the importance of compliance with SOX and company policies.\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams, manage stakeholder relationships, and navigate complex operational workflows.\nHigh level of integrity, accountability, professionalism, and ownership.\n\n$50,000-$95,000\nOmnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.\nOmnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.\nLink to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice\nFor US Job Seekers:\nIt is the policy of Omnicom and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. 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