Sr. Manager Finance - Ad Platform

We’re looking for a strategic, data-driven Senior Manager to lead the Ad Platform finance business partnering team within our FP&A organization. This role will serve as the financial lead for the T-Mobile Ad Platforms, overseeing a team of Finance Business Partners across the USA, EMEA, and APAC markets. The leader will build a consistent, scalable FP&A framework across geographies and business segments as these organizations continue their integration journey.

• Lead and develop a geographically distributed team of Finance Business Partners supporting T‑Mobile Ad Platforms, ensuring consistent and scalable performance‑management deliverables.
• Oversee consolidated P&L management across all Ad Platform country and product P&Ls, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and month-end close.
• Align with the T-Ads consolidation FP&A Team on corporate deliverable inputs such as R&O management, forecasts, budgets and LRP’s.
• Partner with leaders across Business and Operations to align on metrics, assumptions, and strategic decision drivers.
• Deliver monthly and quarterly performance reviews including spend analysis, KPI tracking, and insights for executive decision‑making, including presentation to executive leadership team members.
• Serve as senior review and approval point for trade deal structures; partner with Commercial Teams on complex deals, reviewing client profitability models, approving deal terms, and ensuring alignment with financial targets.
• Own the KPI framework and performance measurement approach across the Ad Platform portfolio, ensuring consistency across all business partner reporting including take rates, media mix, customer trends, and market insights.
• Set the strategic pricing framework across Ad Platforms; own commercial approvals and lead pricing, revenue, and market expansion initiatives for relevant products and geographies.
• Provide governance oversight for quota planning and incentive compensation processes, partnering with P&L owners and Sales Leads to ensure data-driven quota setting across all markets.
• Partner with Ad Platform business leaders to align approval process for headcount management.
• Continue involvement and influence the integration milestones for Blis and Vistar operations, impacting FP&A people, systems, tools and processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA or CPA a plus.
• 10+ years of experience with 5+ years in FP&A, preferably supporting Advertising, Media, or Marketing organizations.
• Proven experience leading geographically distributed finance teams.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate data-heavy insights into executive-ready narratives.
• Proven cross-functional collaborator in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• Ability to scenario plan & align with multiple parties on optimal path forward related to people, process and systems.
• Experience with trade deal structuring, pricing frameworks or commercial finance in an advertising or media business.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP and planning tools (e.g., SAP, Oracle).
• Demonstrated ability to build reporting or measurement infrastructure, not merely maintain existing tools.

• Comfortable building structure from scratch and creating clarity out of chaos.
• Can operate at both the strategic "what should we measure?" level and the technical "how do we build it?" level.
• Detail-oriented with strong process management skills; able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Confident business partner who can influence without authority and drive alignment across teams.
• Must be comfortable working with teams based in other locations, including international (UK & Australia); some flexibility required to collaborate effectively across time zones.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Travel Required:

No.

DOT Regulated:
No.

Safety Sensitive Position:
No.

Base Pay Range: $118,200 - $213,200.

Corporate Bonus Target: 20%.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending account; 401(k);…