Client Finance Associate

Job Description

Client Finance Associate | SKDK

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at SKDK, an award-winning public affairs and political advertising agency, located in New York, NY. SKDK brings unparalleled strategic communications experience to Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, political committees, and candidates. This role is crucial for maintaining and tracking the completeness and accuracy of a portfolio of retainer and media-based client accounts, supporting the finance team, and ensuring all administrative financial responsibilities are up to date.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person New York, NY
• Pay: $68000–$80000 yearly
• Team: Reports to Client Finance Manager and CFO, collaborates with Shared Financial Team and client-facing team leaders.
• Mission: Ensuring all financial elements of client relationships are managed, tracked, monitored, and communicated.
• Tech Stack: Maconomy (ERP), MS Word, PowerPoint, Advanced Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Contract Monitoring: Monitor and review new contracts as they are drafted and signed to request project setups, client invoices, and update revenue trackers.
• Project Financials Oversight: Partner with the Shared Financial Team to oversee project setups, client invoicing, revenue recognition, and Work-in-Progress (WIP) management.
• Client Financial Management: Work closely with the Client Finance Manager and client-facing team leaders to manage, track, monitor, and communicate all financial elements of the client relationship.
• Financial Presentation Support: Assist the Client Finance Manager and CFO in preparing various financial presentations, primarily annual budget and quarterly reforecasts.
• Project Reconciliation: Reconcile and close projects in a timely manner.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting.
• Experience: Exposure to an enterprise-level ERP system.
• Skills: Advanced Excel capabilities, excellent written and verbal communication skills, superior organization abilities, detail-oriented approach to organization of large amounts of data, ability to multi-task.
• Bonus: Self-driven with ability to work in a team-oriented environment, strong team collaborator, natural curiosity, flexible attitude in a shifting environment.