• Lead the development of the annual media budgeting process and quarterly financial forecast tracking in partnership with the Media Planning team. • Manage the monthly financial close process for media spend, ensuring accuracy and proper expense recognition. • Provide variance analysis of actual spend versus budget/forecast to the FP&A Manager and Advertising Team. • Oversee and manage monthly media expenditure, including the processing and accurate GL coding of approximately 300 vendor invoices per month. • Perform timely reconciliation of media plans against actual spend to ensure accuracy. • Proactively provide real-time media spend balances to the Advertising team, ensuring they have immediate and accurate awareness of available-to-spend budgets for timely decision-making. • Timely review of media balances with the Media Director, ensuring it aligns with budget constraints and strategic financial targets. • Develop financial models and reporting to track key performance indicators (KPIs), including preparing burn reports. • Analyze and optimize the existing media spend tracking process to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of reconciliation. • Quality control of media buys (product names, PO’s, I/O’s, system set up, etc.). • Act as the primary financial liaison for Advertising leadership and finance. • Prepare and present executive-level reporting on media spend and performance. • Directly support the Advertising team on day-to-day finance support. • Participate in internal and external audit support as required. • Identify and implement improvements to media financial processes, reporting tools, and control environments to enhance efficiency, accuracy and timeliness of reporting. • Track real-time spending against original estimates, providing early-warning signals when projects risk going over budget.