Media Finance Manager, Avalere Health
$85-111k
Global healthcare communications agency
Job no longer available
Global healthcare communications agency
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$85-111k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To imagine new possibilities for a healthier world and create the connections that make better health happen.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Marketing, Media Studies, or Communications
- 3-5+ years of experience in media finance, agency finance, or media operations
- Strong understanding of media billing processes, reconciliation, and vendor management
- Experience working with AP/AR teams and financial systems
- High level of attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with Media Ocean, NetSuite and/or Adobe Workfront
- Exceptional knowledge of media buying process
- Experience communicating with key stakeholders including internal teams and agency partners
- Ability to multitask and be a team player in fast paced environment
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, negotiating, and conflict resolution skills
What the job involves
- The Media Finance Manager is a critical role within the media organization, responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and scalability of all media financial operations
- Reporting to the Media Operations Director, this individual will lead the end-to-end media billing process, vendor financial management, and cross-functional alignment across finance, media, and client teams
- This role serves as the central point of coordination for media out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses across Avalere Health, ensuring consistency, compliance, and operational excellence across all agencies and lines of business
- The ideal candidate brings strong financial acumen, process rigor, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment
- Media Billing & Financial Operations
- Execute all aspects of the media vendor billing lifecycle, including:
- Executing the airtime process
- Invoice collection and approval workflows
- Invoice Coding
- Resolution of invoice and billing discrepancies (post-SOP implementation)
- Ensure accuracy and timeliness of all billing activities, maintaining alignment with internal finance teams and client expectations
- Continuously identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce errors
- Setting up and updating finance trackers
- Reconciling budgets against campaign workbooks
- Saving invoices
- Identifying missing invoices and communicating with media team and vendors
- Process Implementation & Standardization
- Execute the media billing process and SOPs across:
- All legacy agencies
- Lines of business within Avalere Health
- Drive standardization of financial workflows to create a unified, scalable media finance infrastructure
- Partner with operations and finance leadership to refine and evolve processes as the organization grows
- Media OOP (Out-of-Pocket) Financial Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all media OOP spend across Avalere Health
- Track, manage, and reconcile all media-related expenses across accounts and business units
- Provide visibility into OOP spend through reporting and regular updates to stakeholders
- Cross-Functional Finance Collaboration
- Work closely with Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) teams to:
- Ensure alignment on billing timelines and processes
- Resolve discrepancies efficiently
- Maintain accurate financial records
- Act as a liaison between media, finance, and client teams to ensure seamless financial operations
- Client Team Integration & Financial Tracking
- Participate in weekly and monthly client team meetings to:
- Ensure alignment on media budgets and billing status
- Validate financial tracking across all stakeholders
- Provide updates on reconciliation, discrepancies, and forecasts
- Support client-facing teams with accurate financial insights and reporting
- Vendor Financial Management
- Support vendor onboarding from a financial perspective
- Ensure vendors adhere to billing timelines, formats, and requirements
- Maintain strong relationships with vendors to facilitate smooth financial operations
Our take
Avalere Health, founded in 2001 and formerly known as Fishawack, has built a strong reputation as a leading provider of cross-border strategy consultation, communications, and marketing expertise for companies in the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Though the company doesn’t make its exact customer list public knowledge, it does claim to serve all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world, as well as several breakout biotech and medtech enterprises. In the over two decades since its founding, it has acquired and merged 19 healthcare firms worldwide - including Avalere Health, from which it takes its new name.
Given that it’s grown from one location in the UK to encompass teams across the US, Europe, and Asia, the company appears to operate from a position of serious strength in this trillion-dollar space. Recently, it seems Avalere has focussed on building out its leadership team as it embraces its new branding and manifesto.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- The tools, skills, and support you need to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges
- Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career
- Personalized learning and training
- Hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization
- Flexible working practices
- Company pension/retirement plan
- Private medical insurance
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Compelling time-off policy
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Amar Urhekar
(CEO)Was previously the COO of Avalere Health, Group President at Evoke, Global President at Ashfield Health and was President of the Americas at McCann Health.
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