FP&A Director

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Location:

Chicago - 345 North Morgan

$170,000-$185,000

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves henticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

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The Director of FP&A sits within our Global Agency Finance team.

Here at tms we are committed to building and sustaining an enviable finance function. We believe that everyone here has a part to play in building our business into a successful agency, and having a committed and hard-working finance team is vitally important in that.

As Director of FP&A you will own Agency financial consolidation around the world, lead business partnering for overhead expenses and agency staffing for the North America Agency and Europe regions, and set the planning and analysis agenda that steers the agency towards sustainable, profitable growth. This is a role for someone who shapes how leaders make financial decisions — not someone who reports the numbers to them after the fact.

This position reports to the VP, Finance and leads a team of three (two based in Chicago, one in London). You will own key internal relationships with agency partners at every level, up to and including regional leadership, and will work closely with Finance and Accounting teams across the world. The role is based in our Chicago office on a hybrid schedule.

Finally, we guarantee that you will leave changed. Because we help our people achieve their goals.

So come here to experience. To experiment. To make mistakes. To challenge your own limits.

• Own the development of financial plans for the North America Agency and Europe regions in collaboration with agency partners and the broader Finance team – including annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, the strategic plan, monthly reporting, KPIs, and ad-hoc reporting requirements.
• Own Agency financial consolidation across all regions and multiple systems, ensuring results are complete, accurate, and delivered on a predictable calendar.
• Develop, own, and communicate the Finance calendar – deadlines, dependencies, and key reporting dates – across the Agency finance teams.

• Own the preparation and analysis of actual regional Agency results for North America and Europe, and provide meaningful explanations for variances against prior year, budget, and forecast.
• Direct the monitoring and analysis of overhead expenses – identifying opportunities to improve agency-related costs, overseeing staffing levels, and leading analysis and tracking of technology and office CAPEX investment.
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