Client Finance Manager

Who We Are

UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering over 1.5M artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists to grow and earn unlike any other platform. 

Its unrivaled monetization opportunities for artists are amplified by Translation, UnitedMasters’ in-house creative marketing agency renowned for helping ambitious brands thrive in contemporary culture. In 2022, Translation was awarded the number three spot in Ad Age’s Agency A-List and AdWeek’s Multicultural Agency of the Year. One year before, Translation was awarded Ad Age’s Small Agency of the Year. 

We are looking for a strong and savvy Client Finance Manager to join UnitedMasters and Translation! Please note that this role is a Hybrid role based in our Brooklyn, NY office: three days in office and two days remote. 

What You'll Do

• Work closely with VP on all agency initiatives, reporting and revenue forecasting
• Help develop financial modeling tools across revenue, staffing, business operations, and new business pipeline
• Manage and oversee client finance and production lifecycle from signed estimates, project setup, and cost tracking templates
• Manage staff on day to day production process and client billing tracking to ensure accuracy of reporting
• Manage entire Studio Financial P&L to measure client profitability, client trends, and cost management to help drive business decisions
• Manage the day-to-day finance responsibilities for a portfolio of clients including, but not limited to, client estimates and project set up, production costs vs estimate reconciliations, monthly client utilization tracking, and client ad hoc reporting
• Support the VP of Finance to maintain expert knowledge of the client production process and key challenges
• Work closely with Business Affairs to reconcile production costs against billed estimates in a timely manner for accurate revenue recognition
• Develop financial and production reporting in NetSuite
• Review vendor purchase orders for approval
• Assist key account teams with project burn reports for utilization tracking
• Work with billing and accounting department to solve any client billing issues and outstanding production items
• Support the Finance team with ad hoc internal financial reporting 
• Assist in the development of new processes and workflow

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must have a strong proficiency in Excel and Google sheets.  
• Must be able to work with datasets and help create narratives based on data and other metrics
• Exceptional communication skills when working with account teams and leadership
• Solution oriented with great attention to detail

Minimum Qualifications

• 6 years of experience working at an Advertising Agency
• Experience with major financial systems such as SAP, Peoplesoft, NetSuite        
• Knowledge of FP&A and Revenue management                                                                      

Preferred Qualifications

• NetSuite is a major plus
• Business Operations experience with an understanding of staffing metrics and project funding 
  
  
  

About UnitedMasters, Inc.

UnitedMasters has over 1.5 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly. Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward. In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly. With $170M raised to date and valued at $550M, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others. Over the last year, UnitedMasters artists have used our platform to land sync deals with major brands including the NBA, ESPN, Overtime Elite, Bose, Warner Brother Studios and in the NBA video game 2k. These deals give them additional money for their work and increase their exposure.

Salary Hiring Range: $100,000 - $120,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide (e.g. in some cases bonus, stock options, 401(k) match, etc.)

Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at our company to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors. 

The range above is for the expectations as laid out in the job description, however we are often open to a wide variety of profiles, and recognize that the person we hire may be less experienced (or more senior) than this job description as posted.  If that ends up being the case, the updated salary range will be communicated with you as a candidate.

The salary range above is for the NY/CA.  As a company, we have a location based strategy, which means the salary range could be lower or higher than this if the role is hired in another location.

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