Harrison and Star

Associate Director, Budget Project Management

Harrison and Star$70K — $125K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in digital media client finance or budget management roles
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Marketing or equivalent experience
  • Familiarity with industry software like Prisma, MediaOcean, Dynamics 365, and Cognos
  • Ability to build and maintain strong relationships
  • Strong attention to detail and troubleshooting capabilities
  • Strong project management skills
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Responsibilities

  • Manage financial tasks and ensure their progression across the organization
  • Oversee onboarding of new clients, ensuring timely and accurate setup
  • Act as a liaison for coordination between clients' budget management and client teams
  • Foster strong client relationships through reporting and troubleshooting
  • Identify and resolve issues to maintain timely task progress
  • Facilitate client meetings, playing a leadership or participatory role as needed
  • Serve as the primary contact for client billing inquiries and manage billing practices

Benefits

  • Standard work from the office policy requiring at least three days per week
  • Potential for increased in-office attendance requirements
  • Collaborative work environment with high interaction across teams
Full Job Description
Agency:
PHd

Job Function:
Media

Job Subfunction:
Media Operations

Job Description:
Overview

As a Budget Project Manager, you will play an important role as the account and relationship support for all client financial matters between our clients, account management, activation and finance teams. This is a non-traditional role in a fast-paced client services environment, requiring significant attention to detail, precision and top relationship building skills. Strong problem-solving skills and commitment to seeing things to closure, along with a sense of urgency, are needed to build credible partnerships with both internal and external clients.

Responsibilities
Project Management and Communication
Ensure clear progression of related financial tasks across the business
Stewarding new client onboardings and ensuring set up is completed timely and accurately
Serve as a liaison between the client's budget management group and the client team(s) to help coordinate projects across the business
Support strong client relationships by developing outputs for reporting deliverables and trouble-shooting as needed to meet client expectations and those of the Budget Project Management function
Help identify and trouble shoot any issues through the workflow to ensure tasks progress in a timely manner
Attend or lead periodic client-related or departmental meetings
Billing
Establish relationships with client's finance and procurement teams and be the primary point of contact for any client related billing questions
Partner with client teams to ensure POs are received and revised in a timely fashion - Establish and monitor billing practices to ensure they are in accordance with client obligations
Act as the primary support role for all items related to client billing internally
Provide core support for ensuring timely receipt for client payment
Track and maintain clear records of billing activity
Review and support generation of core billing files and upload to client financial systems
Prepare and maintain client financial reporting reports and back up as needed

Reporting and Compliance
Ensure all appropriate documentation and authorizations are received in compliance with policies
Review documentation and workflows to ensure compliance with processes and procedures
Be familiar with and adhere to clients contractual obligations, departmental processes and procedures
Develop and maintain regular financial reports to summarize the state of the account
Review and follow up on key financial reports and ensure outstanding items are addressed on a timely basis by working with internal teams
Develop and maintain agency and client forecasting files
Assist in deliverables related to audit compliance
Enforce operations policies and best practices across the business

Qualifications
8+ years of experience with growing responsibility in Digital media client finance or budget management positions
College degree in Finance or Marketing or equivalent work experience.
Familiarity across Prisma, MediaOcean, Dynamics 365, and Cognos preferred.
Strong ability to develop and foster relationships.
Strong attention to detail, problem solving, developing solutions and troubleshooting.
Strong project management skills.
Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.New York: $70,000.00-$125,000.00

Omnicom'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.

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Learn more about Harrison and Star
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
NASDAQ

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