Finance Director

About Us

There’s a reason HUNTER is recognized as a PRWeek Best Place To Work and has been named PRovoke “Consumer Agency of the Year” not once, but twice:
At HUNTER, we EARN IT — consumer attention, the trust and loyalty of clients, and the dedication of our staff, currently 350+ strong and counting

There’s a reason HUNTER is recognized as a PRWeek Best Place To Work and has been named PRovoke “Consumer Agency of the Year” not once, but twice:
At HUNTER, we EARN IT — consumer attention, the trust and loyalty of clients, and the dedication of our staff, currently 350+ strong and counting

The Finance Director supports all aspects of the agency’s financial management process, providing support to the CFO on month end close, forecasting, audit compliance, agency initiatives and serves as a liaison with Stagwell Corporate finance teams. This role requires a commercially astute, analytical and articulate leader who can mentor the team, provide financial guidance and strategy to the business and develop strong relationships with Stagwell Corporate finance teams.

The position requires advanced excel and financial modeling skills with the ability to automate processes and translate complex financial data into meaningful commentary to help support the agency’s leadership and drive profitability.

The position will manage the agency Client Finance team and report to the CFO, with offices in New York, LA, Canada and London. The role requires professional maturity, discretion, ethical behavior, exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills, agency finance expertise, and familiarity with HUNTER’s business and technology platforms, including Maconomy and UKG.

Financial Leadership & Business Partnership

• Provide financial guidance and strategic support to agency leadership and the CFO, translating complex financial data into meaningful commentary that supports decision-making and profitability.
• Manage and mentor the agency Client Finance team while serving as a key liaison with Stagwell Corporate finance and shared services teams.

• Support and prepare Stagwell required financial templates.
• Leveraging Maconomy and Power BI tools, create automated reporting and analysis of data and metrics to help provide key insights into business trends and performance against agency metrics such as client churn, trade working capital, staff cost ratio and resource allocations.
• Maintain and enhance forecasting tools such as the revenue forecast report, new business tracking and staff allocations.

• Lead month-end close process ensuring adequate review of revenue recognition, monthly accruals for both billable and non-billable accounts, and variance analysis against prior period and budget/forecasts reporting results into the CFO for review and validation.
• Prepare required month-end reporting including client revenue database, monthly dashboards and flash reports.
• Develop and maintain monthly leadership reports and presentations, providing commentary and analysis against agency metrics, including actual vs. forecast, utilization, over-service and trade working capital.
• Partner with agency Client Finance team and Stagwell shared services to ensure intercompany mismatches are cleared prior to month end.
• Partner with Stagwell shared services teams ensuring proper review of financials, follow-up on open items and accurate recording of journal entries.

• Develop monthly client trade working capital and cash position reports that help the agency identify and measure key risk areas working with the teams on improvement strategies
• Review and monitor related balance sheet accounts ensuring follow up on material WIP items
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