T-Mobile

Sr. Director, FP&A - T-Ads

T-Mobile$197K — $267K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of finance experience with a focus on FP&A leadership in large organizations.
  • Expertise in P&L management and revenue accountability in high-growth settings.
  • Strong understanding of digital advertising, media, and technology business models.
  • Experience in M&A finance, including valuations and integration planning.
  • Proven ability to influence executives and lead cross-functional decisions.
  • Skilled in financial modeling, forecasting, and executive storytelling.
  • Demonstrated leadership of high-performing teams in complex environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead financial planning cycles, including revenue forecasts and long-range plans.
  • Serve as the key finance partner to T-Ads leadership, translating strategy into financial outcomes.
  • Oversee consolidated P&L for T-Ads, including revenue and operating expenses.
  • Guide strategic decisions impacting revenue and investment priorities.
  • Partner with various leaders to prioritize growth opportunities within the advertising portfolio.
  • Lead financial integration across business units for a cohesive operating model.
  • Drive advanced analytics and reporting to support timely business decisions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) with company contributions and employee stock grants.
  • Paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays each year.
  • Tuition assistance and college coaching services.
  • Generous family support and paid parental leave.
  • Access to mobile service and home internet discounts.
  • Unique perks including pet insurance and commuter programs.
Full Job Description


Job Overview
The Senior Director of FP&A for T-Ads serves as the functional CFO and chief financial partner to T-Mobile's advertising business, providing strategic leadership across revenue forecasting, P&L management, investment prioritization, integration planning, and long-range financial strategy. This leader supports a global advertising portfolio spanning Legacy T-Ads, Vistar, and Blis, with financial responsibility across more than 20 countries.

This leader drives high-quality financial insights, strengthens operating discipline, and guides the business through complex decisions across product innovation, monetization strategy, geographic expansion, resource allocation, and M&A integration. The role leads a finance team of approximately 15-20 professionals and partners closely with senior leaders across T-Ads, Growth & Emerging Businesses, FP&A, Corporate Development, Sales, Product, Engineering, Media, and Marketing.

Un-carrier® Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Financial Planning
  • Lead end-to-end financial planning cycles for T-Ads, including revenue forecasts, operating expense plans, long-range plans, QBRs, MBRs, and executive business reviews.
  • Serve as the senior Finance thought partner to the SVP of T-Ads and leadership across Growth & Emerging Businesses, translating business strategy into clear financial plans, trade-offs, and outcomes.
  • Oversee the consolidated P&L across Legacy T-Ads, Vistar, and Blis, including revenue, media, marketing, product, engineering, sales commissions, headcount, and other operating expenses.

P&L Ownership, Revenue Growth & Resource Allocation
  • Guide decisions that impact revenue growth, profitability, investment pacing, market prioritization, and operational execution for T-Ads.
  • Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, Media, and Marketing leaders to identify, size, and prioritize the highest-return growth opportunities across the advertising portfolio.
  • Evaluate investment trade-offs across product development, sales coverage, engineering capacity, media costs, marketing, commissions, and geographic expansion.
  • Drive cost efficiency, margin discipline, and resource allocation rigor while enabling the business to pursue strategic growth opportunities.

Integration, Global Expansion & Business Transformation
  • Lead Finance integration across Legacy T-Ads, Vistar, and Blis, aligning teams, financial processes, planning discipline, reporting, controls, and investment priorities into a cohesive operating model.
  • Support decisions to enter, continue investing in, optimize, or sunset international markets through financial modeling, scenario planning, and market-level performance assessment.
  • Build scalable financial governance and operating mechanisms to support a global advertising platform operating across more than 20 countries.
  • Partner cross-functionally with business leaders and enabling functions to ensure integration execution, operating discipline, and value creation.

M&A Finance & Transaction Support
  • Lead M&A Finance support Companywide, partnering with Corporate Development to evaluate prospective transactions, coordinate valuations, and assess financial attractiveness.
  • Validate deal economics, synergy assumptions, integration costs, financial risks, and alignment to long-range plan assumptions and TMUS investment criteria.
  • Establish financial governance for integration planning, synergy tracking, and post-close accountability.

Advanced Analytics & Decision Support
  • Lead scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and business case development for new advertising products, market expansion, monetization opportunities, and cost optimization initiatives.
  • Deliver recurring insights to senior leadership on revenue trends, profitability, investment returns, market performance, and operating risks and opportunities.
  • Translate complex financial analysis into concise, executive-ready narratives and recommendations that enable timely, data-driven decisions.

Operational Reporting & Controls
  • Strengthen management reporting, dashboards, and scorecards that provide transparency into T-Ads performance and enable disciplined operating reviews.
  • Maintain a robust financial controls framework across forecasting, spend management, headcount planning, commissions, capitalization, and operating expenses.
  • Drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy, data quality, reporting efficiency, and planning discipline across the combined T-Ads finance organization.

Team Leadership & Talent Development
  • Lead, coach, and develop a Finance team of approximately 15-20 professionals
  • Build a culture of accountability, curiosity, analytical rigor, and partnership, empowering the team to deliver impactful insights and become trusted advisors to the business.
  • Partner with HR and FP&A leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, career development, and talent strategy.


The Experience You'll Bring
  • 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A leadership roles supporting large, complex, matrixed organizations.
  • Experience supporting high-growth businesses with end-to-end P&L ownership, significant revenue accountability, and multi-function cost management.
  • Strong understanding of digital advertising, media, technology, marketplace, platform, SaaS, or related business models preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives, lead cross-functional decision-making, and operate as a strategic business partner.
  • Experience with M&A finance, deal valuation, integration planning, synergy tracking, and post-close financial governance preferred.
  • Expertise in financial modeling, forecasting, long-range planning, ROI analysis, business case development, and executive storytelling.
  • Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly matrixed environment.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to simplify complexity, frame trade-offs, and drive clarity in decision-making.


  • At least 18 years of age
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States


Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No): Yes

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No

Base Pay Range: $197,500 - $267,300

Corporate Bonus Target: 35%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as qualifications and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee's eligible earnings in the prior year.

At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile's amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com.

Never stop growing!
As part of the T-Mobile team, you know the Un-carrier doesn't have a corporate ladder-it's more like a jungle gym of possibilities! We love helping our employees grow in their careers, because it's that shared drive to aim high that drives our business and our culture forward. By applying for this career opportunity, you're living our values while investing in your career growth-and we applaud it. You're unstoppable!

About T-Mobile

T-Mobile US, Inc. is a wireless company. As of December 31, 2016, the Company provided wireless communications services, including voice, messaging and data, to over 71 million customers in the postpaid, prepaid and wholesale markets. It provides services, devices and accessories across its brands, T-Mobile and MetroPCS. It provides wireless communication services through a range of service plan options. The Company offers a device trade-in program, Just Upgrade My Phone (JUMP!), which provides customers a specified-price trade-in credit and upgrade eligibility after approximately six months of service; Equipment Installment Plan (EIP), which is designed to provide financing to customers for the purchase of devices, and installment agreements for accessories; T-Mobile Tuesdays, which offers customers free stuff and access to various offers from brands; and T-Mobile ONE and Simple Choice plans.
Learn more about T-Mobile
Size
75,000 employees
Market Cap
$174.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+16.4%
Revenue
$68.3 billion
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