Associate Director, Finance

Overview

We're looking for an Associate Director, Finance to serve as a key strategic and operational finance leader within the agency. This role goes beyond the books. You'll own day-to-day accounting while partnering directly with agency leadership on financial planning, forecasting, and the tools and infrastructure that drive smart decision-making. You're equally at home in the details of a general ledger as you are presenting a P&L to the executive team.

A Bit About Us

Movement Strategy creates content and campaigns for the world’s most exciting brands. We win awards, make headlines, shatter engagement numbers and celebrate the journey along the way. It’s why companies like Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and Intuit come to us again and again.

We’re fully remote with hubs in New York, Denver, and LA, and a presence all across the US. We believe collaboration is what takes our work from good to great, and at times, even to legendary status. We champion diverse opinions and creativity in every department, and provide professional development and learning opportunities with the goal of helping you discover your best work today, and learn how to make it even better in the future.

Key Focus Areas

Accounting & Bookkeeping

• Own the agency's general ledger(s) and ensure the integrity of all financial records
• Manage accounts payable across all agency vendors and accounts receivable/billing schedules
• Lead the end-of-month close process with accuracy and efficiency
• Oversee reconciliation of all bank and corporate credit card accounts
• Manage corporate and payroll taxes payments and reconciliations
• Manage 401(k) funding contributions and annual plan audits
• Assist with audits by external and statutory auditors

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Assist with the development and management of forecast reports for operating expenses and revenue
• Compile and analyze labor reports to assess bill rates and profitability
• Support cash management, revenue analysis, and financial statement presentation
• Partner with agency leadership to build internal financial tools, dashboards, and models (profitability, forecasting, ratio analysis, etc.)
• Support P&L management across the agency combined P&L and office/department-specific P&Ls

Process, Policy & Controls

• Continuously evaluate and improve finance tools, reporting systems, and internal policies
• Identify and surface areas of cost reduction or operational improvement across OPEX
• Review client SOWs and staffing plans to ensure financial metrics, rate cards, and profit margins are upheld
• Own and evolve expense reimbursement and billable expense policies (Rippling Spend, Amex)
• Develop and monitor internal agency budgets across T&E, office expenses, marketing investments, department education, and contract labor

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Support the SVP, Finance in serving as a strategic finance partner to Talent and Resource Management, helping surface financial context and guardrails that inform hiring decisions, staffing plans, and capacity planning
• Collaborate closely with Resource Management to ensure scopes of work and project staffing are built with profitability and budget integrity in mind
• Assist SVP, Finance with headcount planning by preparing and maintaining the financial models behind new hires, backfills, and contract-to-hire conversions
• Bring a finance lens to workforce planning conversations, equipping