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About the Role

Salt XC is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to oversee the financial operations of The Kitchen, an embedded agency partnership with a Fortune 500 client. This role is crucial for ensuring project financial control, timely billing, accurate revenue recognition, and clear financial visibility for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial oversight of approximately 100-150 client projects annually.
• Maintain accurate project financials, including budgets, committed costs, actual costs, billings, and project-level profitability.
• Ensure production costs and employee expenses are accurately captured and allocated to appropriate projects.
• Monitor project financial activity from initiation through final reconciliation and close.
• Identify financial discrepancies, aging items, and project risks, and proactively drive them to resolution.
• Maintain strong financial controls while supporting agency environment needs.
• Identify areas for efficiency and cost reductions.
• Own the financial workflow for accurate and timely project billing.
• Proactively obtain required purchase orders and client approvals ahead of billing deadlines.
• Maintain visibility over outstanding POs, unbilled activity, and billing status.
• Manage accrued/unbilled revenue, deferred/unearned revenue, and related balance sheet positions.
• Partner with the AR team to ensure accurate and prompt invoicing and resolve client billing questions.
• Own the financial reporting for the approximately 150-person staffing model.
• Maintain clear visibility into contracted positions, filled roles, vacancies, start dates, and departures.
• Prepare regular vacancy reporting and its associated financial impact.
• Ensure staffing changes are reflected appropriately in client reporting and billing.
• Partner closely with Recruiting, Operations, and Finance to reconcile staffing information.
• Serve as the Finance liaison for The Kitchen, connecting Salt Finance, leadership, and client stakeholders.
• Provide timely, clear, and proactive communication regarding financial matters.
• Translate financial information into practical insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Establish regular reporting and communication rhythms for stakeholders.
• Build strong relationships across Finance, Operations, Recruiting, Production, and client teams.
• Produce regular client and internal financial reporting.
• Support month-end close by ensuring project revenue, costs, accruals, and deferrals are complete and accurate.
• Reconcile project-related balance sheet accounts and investigate aging balances.
• Maintain schedules for unbilled revenue, deferred/unearned revenue, accrued costs, and other project-related accounts.
• Develop and improve processes, trackers, and reporting for financial administration.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve financial controls.

Requirements

• Strong experience in project accounting, ideally within an advertising, experiential, production, professional services, or other project-based environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of revenue recognition, including accrued/unbilled revenue and deferred/unearned revenue.
• Experience managing high volumes of project costs, client billing, and project reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of balance sheet reconciliations and month-end accounting processes.
• Experience working with purchase orders and client procurement processes.
• Strong Excel and financial reporting skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage a large number of projects and outstanding items simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills and the confidence to work directly with senior internal and client stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset with a focus on resolving outstanding issues.
• Ability to bridge the gap between Finance and Operations, balancing financial discipline with business realities.

Skills

• Project accounting
• Revenue recognition
• Accrued/unbilled revenue management
• Deferred/unearned revenue management
• Project cost management
• Client billing
• Project reconciliations
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Month-end accounting processes
• Purchase order management
• Client procurement processes
• Excel
• Financial reporting
• Organizational skills
• Communication skills
• Stakeholder management
• Proactive problem-solving
• Financial controls
• Efficiency identification
• Cost reduction identification

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $115,000–$150,000

About the Company

• Salt XC is a large-scale embedded agency partnership with a Fortune 500 client.