Commercial Finance Business Partner

Job Description :

Dentsu is looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated Commercial Finance Business Partner who thrives in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate is comfortable having direct and thoughtful dialogue with both internal and external clients, understands the basics of revenue and expense accounting, has experience with pricing strategies to effectively advise the business on favorable commercial terms, and has attention to detail to review and redline complex legal contracts, including master agreements and statements of work.

Primary responsibilities include (1) acting as a commercial advisor to the business and sales teams on pricing, revenue recognition, margin improvement, client disputes, and other ad hoc financial issues (2) partnering with the business on development of complex pricing commercial models.

Activities include :

• Understand Merkle's primary service offerings and understand IFRS revenue principles to related revenue streams.
• Develop innovative pricing models with clear and concise messaging
• Review material client contracts for overall earnings and risk management considerations and act as the primary escalation point for risk considerations identified by team members.
• Collaborate with legal and the commercial contracts team on corporate risk management
• Lead client negotiations of contracts, pricing and general finance matters
• Escalate economic risk issues to senior and executive management as they arise.
• Monitor project level profitability and coordinate with delivery on margin improvement
• Build deep, trusted relationships with sales, client team, and capability leaders to ensure honest and efficient conversations occur regarding revenue recognition and contract management.
• Regularly identify opportunities to improve current processes, policies, procedures and controls to enhance delivery of world-class service to both internal and external customers.

Ensure the identification of opportunities to minimize contract risk and coordinate commercial risk mitigation measures.

Qualifications :

At dentsu, we believe great work happens when we're connected. Our way of working combines flexibility with in-person collaboration to spark ideas and strengthen our teams. Employees who live within a commutable distance of one of our hub offices, currently located in Chicago, metro Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York City, are required and expected to work from the office three days per week (two days per week for employees based in Los Angeles). Dentsu may designate other Hub offices at any time. Those who live outside a commutable range may be designated as remote, depending on the role and business needs. Regardless of your work location, we expect our employees to be flexible to meet the needs of our Company and clients, which may include attendance in an office.

The anticipated salary range for this position is ($113,000-$182,850). Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and / or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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Location : New York

Brand : Dentsu

Time Type : Full time

Contract Type : Permanent

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