Client Finance Lead, Production

🔹 About the Role

We’re seeking a detail-oriented and production-savvy Client Finance Lead to join our client’s Finance team. This role will focus specifically on production-related financial transactions, supporting the budgeting, tracking, and reconciliation of advertising production jobs from start to finish.

The ideal candidate has experience in agency finance, understands how to manage client-funded budgets, and can collaborate closely with producers and operations teams to ensure financial integrity across high-volume, fast-moving productions.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

• Oversee production job budgets from creation through reconciliation
• Partner with producers to ensure accurate job costing, timely billing, and financial oversight
• Manage client-funded money: monitor usage, aging, and ensure alignment with SOWs and production contracts
• Track and reconcile actuals vs. budget in real-time throughout production
• Review and process production-related vendor invoices, POs, and freelance payments
• Assist with client audits and maintain clear documentation for job files
• Collaborate with commercial finance on burn reports, job profit tracking, and financial performance by campaign
• Ensure compliance with client financial policies and industry best practices
• Liaise with accounting team on month-end close and revenue recognition tied to production activity
• Lead a team of 4-6 people

🔹 Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in client finance, production accounting, or financial operations within an advertising/creative agency
• Strong understanding of job-level P&L management
• Hands-on experience managing production budgets and third-party costs
• Proficiency in Excel; experience with Accountability or similar ERP tools
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
• Strong communication skills with both creative and financial stakeholders

🔹 Preferred

• Familiarity with broadcast, digital, or integrated production environments
• Experience working with global brand clients or Fortune 500 advertisers
• Knowledge of media and post-production billing structures is a plus

🔹 Why Join?

You’ll be part of a passionate, award-winning agency that delivers iconic creative work for some of the world’s most beloved brands. Our Finance team plays a key role in enabling that creativity through smart, agile, and collaborative financial operations.

• $115,000 – $130,000, depending on experience and qualifications
• Hybrid schedule, strong benefits, and a collaborative team culture