Media Finance Executive

TITLE Media Finance Executive

DEPARTMENT Finance

DIVISION NP Digital Malaysia

LOCATION Onsite – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

NP Digital (NPD) is a global award-winning performance marketing agency. AdAge named us Performance Marketing Agency of Year, Campaign Magazine labeled us the Global Agency of the Year in two categories, and The Drum awarded us the Agency Business Award for Global Development. Google recently handed us the Agency Excellence Award for Media Unification and both Inc. and AdAge listed us on their Best Places to Work lists.

NP Digital combines proprietary platforms with best-in-class talent to deliver leading edge experiences centered around: paid and organic search, social, content, retargeting, performance display, feed management and conversion rate optimization.

NP Digital focuses on creating innovative, adaptive, and data-driven digital marketing plans for our clients. Obsessed with helping companies grow and exceed their goals, NP Digital delivers on the mission of continually helping brands connect and engage with their audience.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

This is a newly created role to support our growing finance team.

We are looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented Media Finance Executive to become the central heartbeat of our APAC operations. This is a critical hybrid role designed to bridge the gap between our high-performance Paid Media and Finance teams.

In this role, you will be the key point of accountability for financial integrity relating to media budgets and spend. By mastering our systems and streamlining the reconciliation process, you will protect our clients budgets and empower our strategy teams to focus on what they do best: driving results. You will work closely with multiple stakeholders across APAC in to ensure business continuity and support our rapid growth in the region.

ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Financial Stewardship & Reconciliation: Lead the end-to-end reconciliation for key clients across all digital platforms (Programmatic, Social, Search, Display), ensuring platform spend aligns perfectly with internal trackers
• Validation of Actuals: Verify and actualise monthly spend numbers across all third-party vendors to ensure 100% accuracy before billing
• Client Invoicing: Work closely with the paid media team to ensure completeness and timeliness of invoicing
• Accounts Payable (AP) Management: Process invoices and purchase orders and own the invoice lifecycle by mapping vendor invoices to campaign / media spend statements, monitoring payment status, and reconciling and resolving any billing discrepancies
• Month-end Reporting: Process vendor invoices in a timely manner in order to facilitate the reconciliation process. Identify and highlight any discrepancies and work with the paid media team to resolve these
• PIN System Oversight: Maintain and audit the PIN system, ensuring campaign creation is accurate and utilise the correct billing entities for seamless processing
• Other adhoc duties where required

ABOUT YOU

• 3+ Years of experience in Finance, preferably from within the advertising industry
• Proven experience with ERP systems (eg. Netsuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero etc.)
• You are a self-starter who takes pride in data integrity and can spot a discrepancy before it becomes a problem
• Advanced Excel skills are a must; you enjoy finding efficiencies and cleaning up processes to make things run smoother
• Excellent communication skills to secure stakeholder buy-in and work with various teams to implement new processes successfully
• Bachelor's degree in Finance / Accounting

ABOUT YOUR GROWTH

As an organization we support your growth and development by investing in your learning to advance your career. We believe in empowering you to showcase your knowledge and skills to win together.

ABOUT OUR BENEFITS

We offer a comprehensive and flexible benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. Benefits include but not limited to:

• Competitive remuneration, performance incentives and substantial perks, including wellbeing benefits (gym membership, Spotify subscription, health checks, etc.)
• Comprehensive outpatient & medical benefits on top of great insurance coverage
• Extensive annual leave entitlement
• Positive and supportive leadership
• A work culture that drives teamwork and collaboration
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• Unbiased work culture from top to bottom to encourage and push you to #DreamBig
• Fun employee engagement activities & parties, annual dinners and company trips
• Strategic office location that's easily accessible by public transportation
• Work among experts and specialists in a company with years of experience in the industry and has won multiple awards

ABOUT OUR CULTURE

We value our best-in-class company culture, which is results-driven, innovative, fast-paced and fun. Our focus is on outcome, not output. We encourage our employees to work with an entrepreneurial spirit while applying a businesslike approach. When you work with great people and leaders that support you, there is no end to what you can accomplish. We celebrate different backgrounds and perspectives from our team members, but one thing we all have in common is a core set of values:

Think Big

Think Big challenges our teams in all aspects of the business. For our clients, it requires that we expand their vision beyond what's expected, while pushing us to become a committed partner who provides strategic recommendations and measurable outcomes.

Own It

Own It plays a key role in encouraging employee autonomy. We believe owning it inspires employees to build skillsets within their roles and beyond to drive their career where you want. Own It highlights ability to make the work yours and deliver creative results.

Have Fun

Have Fun means we enjoy working together and cultivating a great work experience for everyone. Our passion for what we do is visible throughout the organization. Anything we enjoy, we are naturally going to do better, so we make our work something we look forward to, rather than simply something we have to do.

ABOUT OUR PRACTICES

NP Digital takes a human-centric approach to hiring. AI tools may assist with administrative or creative tasks, but all evaluations and decisions are made by our awesome people.

NP Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer, proud of our diversity and inclusive culture! Our goal is to positively impact change through our actions, and we're committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.