Job Responsibility:

Brainrider is a marketing and creative agency with teams in Menlo Park/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, and Toronto. We work with ambitious marketers, in-house creative teams, and internal agencies to do more, by filling capability and capacity gaps and enabling them to execute their marketing and creative at scale.

We believe collaboration is at its best when we feel at home, so we work as a team — plain and simple. Whether we're brainstorming better marketing ideas for our clients, or pushing the gas to meet a tight deadline, it all happens with adaptability, optimism, and teamwork.

Are you our next team member?

The Role

Brainrider is looking for a skilled Senior Client Finance Analyst to join our finance team in Toronto. The Senior Client Finance Analyst partners with the creative operations team to oversee all financial aspects related to clients, including invoicing, billing status reports, hour summary reports, retainer tracking, managing, and coordinating month-end client reporting requirements, i.e., revenue recognition and ad-hoc requests.

This position reports to the Finance Director and ensures that financial controls and policies are in place and followed, client growth is successfully tracked, revenue is appropriately recognized and reported, billing is accurate, and payments are collected on a timely basis.

Our ideal candidate should have the ability to communicate effectively and share key information succinctly to multiple stakeholders and continually seek and implement system and process improvements that strengthen controls and promote efficiency.

Organization, multitasking, and a proactive approach to problem solving are all skills you possess and demonstrate. You can see the big picture and understand important details. In a nutshell, you are a whiz with numbers and enjoy collaborating with others and working on a team.





What You'll Do

- Manage key financial points of client contracts, working with the creative operations and finance teams
- Maintain Master Service Contracts and ensure that all contractual obligations are disseminated and followed
- Manage client POs, AR, WIP, and client budgets
- Collaborate with creative operations teams to invoice clients, and track and follow up on overdue invoices
- Design and implement any client and/or product-specific reporting needs
- Work with creative operations to perfect detailed client-facing financial trackers that are informative and easy to view
- Ensure that the creative operations team is informed of how they are tracking vs their budgets
- Notify the creative operations team in the event of a likelihood of a project budget under or over-run
- Ensure that all out-of-pocket expenses are re-billed to clients on schedule
- Explain variances in revenue results vs forecast
- Assist in month-end close, including revenue recognition and accruals
- Work on ad hoc reporting requirements as requested by creative operations and finance teams
- Identify and recommend process improvements when needed

What You'll Bring

- 3+ years of experience in finance, agency experience is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA candidate preferred
- Microsoft Excel: Proficient in advanced functions and formulas to perform VLOOKUP, pivot tables, charts, graphs, and data capture
- A knowledge and understanding of QuickBooks Online, Teamwork,



and Concur
- Experience with accounts payable or receivable, basic bookkeeping, and a solid understanding of GAAP principles and reconciliation processes
- Successful track record managing multiple projects concurrently; ability to adapt and manage multiple tasks and projects while meeting both fixed and moving deadlines
- Solid self-discipline and ability to prioritize tasks
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to interface with high-level client partners as needed
- Willingness to dive in and help the team, driven to elevate the finance team to better levels of service
- Acute attention to detail, with an emphasis on consistency and continuity

Additional information

We offer competitive salaries, paid vacation, work from home (WFH) support and set-up assistance, and a wide variety of other great perks!

The fine print:

- Please include current resume and cover letter — we would like to learn more about you and your experience
- Candidates selected for next steps will be contacted
- You can learn more about working with us at Brainrider Careers

Brainrider is a place where everyone can do their best work and be themselves. We work as a team, plain and simple. We respect and value the unique characteristics, skills, and experiences of everyone, and support and champion each other to be the best we can be — for ourselves, our team, and our clients. We recognize that a diverse and inclusive workplace leads to better ideas, better solutions, and better results. And we're here for that — and for you. We #ridetogether.

Brainrider supports Neurodiverse professionals - if you would like to apply using our neurodiverse hiring process, please contact us at View email address on ca.edajobs.com

Relocation and sponsorship are not provided.

📌 Senior Client Finance Analyst (Canada)
🏢 Brainrider
📍 Canada