Client Finance Analyst

Hungry, curious, growing and never satisfied.

That’s Fitzco, a fully-integrated agency with combined capabilities across advertising, strategic planning, media, digital, social, creative technology, performance marketing and design. It’s easy to say that we offer an integrated team. It’s another thing to watch that integration in action. At Fitzco, you’ll notice right away an intimacy in how our media, brand strategy, and creative departments work together in concert.

Armed with an in-depth understanding of diverse audiences and the willingness to push against category norms to break through, we have successfully brought cultural relevance to brands in a diverse mix of categories, including Home Instead, Wellstar, EyeCare Partners, Optum, Southern Company, Synovus, and more.

This position is based in Atlanta. We're in the office Tuesday and Thursday each week.

At Fitzco, the Client Finance Analyst provides financial support to client account teams and monitors client budgets on an ongoing basis. This position reports into Client Accounting Manager. This individual Assist in the creation of job media authorizations, budgets and billing and accruals, ensuring adherence to contract billing policies, providing summaries of monthly billing and reconciliations, and assisting with financial analysis and reporting as required.

• Provide financial support to client account teams and monitor client budgets on an ongoing basis
• Provide financial information to various departments and clients as required
• Provide client financial analysis in the review of monthly results, and summary of monthly billings, accruals and reconciliation
• Monitor client’s annual budget and spend
• Assume role of primary financial contact for account team on assigned client business
• Generate professional financial reports for review with clients as directed by account team
• Generate monthly billing, billing summary and accruals reports for client
• Secure client P.O. or necessary work/payment authorizations and ensure adherence to contract billing policies and workflow procedures
• Monitor accounts receivable status and follow-up on aged balances with client
• Lead and participate in financial meetings
• Open and manage jobs in coordination with account team
• Participate in the coordination and submission of all internal and external periodic reporting to Corp Headquarters and/or parent company (actuals, budgets, re-forecasts, balance sheet variance analyses, interest, foreign currency, special year end reporting items/YE reporting packages)
• Assist in inter-company payables and receivables
• Assist in all internal and external Audits
• Participate in any and all Sarbanes Oxley initiatives
• Perform reconciliations and analyses of key accounts and coordinate activities with the treasury and accounts payable department
• Participate in Ad Hoc projects as assigned

• 2-5 years of related financial analysis and/or accounting experience, preferably within an advertising, marketing, PR or service industry environment
• Finance/Accounting knowledge (Balance Sheet, A/R, P&Ls, etc.)
• Possess an understanding of basic accounting principles
• Strong analytical skills
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent experience with MS Office, especially Excel
• Creating and using complicated spreadsheets are part of everyday work
• Very computer adept
• Fast learner of new applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Interested? We'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application through the link provided so we can make sure it gets to the right place. We're actively reviewing applications and will be in touch if there is a match. We're unable to accept resumes or applications via email, and we're not partnering with external recruiting agencies on this role at this time.

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of responsibility. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.

Fitzco is an Equal Opportunity Employer EEO/AA and is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.