Managing Director, Commercial Finance

Job description

Job Description: This role is responsible for shaping financial strategy, ensuring operational discipline, and overseeing performance delivery across revenue, margin, and cost targets for a business unit within US Media, dentsu. Overarching accountability for the quality and accuracy of forecasts and budgets, providing leadership and delivering timely, reliable insight and analysis to support business decision-making‑. This role will report directly into the CFO of Media. Key Responsibilities: - Lead the development of the brand’s strategic financial plans, including long term revenue and margin outlooks, scenario pl‑anning, and investment priorities. - Collaborated with CEO, Chief Client Officer, Ops Lead, HR Lead, Chief Growth Officer, and Portfolio leads to maintain and grow a high-performing business unit - Own the annual budgeting, monthly close, and quarterly forecasting cycles, ensuring precision, transparency, and timely insight into performance. - Reviews and provides strategic financial plans in partnership with business leaders - Partners to provide insight and challenge through financial analysis to enable business partners to make key decisions and achieve targets - Su...