Finance Manager
Job Summary
Our nimble, quick and collaborative creative agency is currently seeking a Finance Manager with advertising agency experience. As a creative ad agency, we move quickly, so we need to think on our feet and avoid getting stuck in the process. We thrive on curating real-time solutions to real-time challenges.
In this role, that directly supports the Controller, the Finance Manager will collaborate closely with operations and account teams to provide financial support to the Agency.
Because ours is a fast-paced culture, you will be able to multitask and maintain a sense of urgency while demonstrating exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
The Finance Manager is responsible, in the area of Finance for:
- Supporting the Controller and the Operations team with financial modeling, annual planning and quarterly rolling forecasts, taking into account business initiatives and financial targets
- Compiling data to report client profitability and project profitability
- Maintaining client budgeting tools and templates
- Analyzing and reporting on resource utilization
- Sourcing data as needed from various financial systems
- Driving process change, supporting process best practices and implementing cost saving opportunities
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or equivalent business experience
Experience
- 5+ years’ experience
- Advertising / Marketing agency experience is A MUST – digital agency experience is a plus
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Previous advertising agency experience
- Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to multitask and maintain a sense of urgency in fast-paced environment
- Must be detail oriented and organized with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Positive attitude, honest and a team player mentality
- Mac Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Experience with QuickBooks and T-sheets is a plus
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Organizational and time-management skills
Accounts Receivable Manager
Job Summary
Our nimble, quick and collaborative creative agency is currently seeking an Accounts Receivable Manager (ad agency experience a plus). As a creative ad agency, we move quickly, so we need to think on our feet and avoid getting stuck in the process. We thrive on curating real-time solutions to real-time challenges.
In this role that directly supports the Controller, the AR Manager owns the full cycle AR process and works closely with finance, account teams and clients. This position will manage billing, collections, reporting, process improvement initiatives, and resolving issues for vendors and clients.
Because ours is a fast-paced culture, you will be able to multitask and maintain a sense of urgency while demonstrating exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
The AR Manager is responsible, in the area of Finance for:
- Generating monthly client retainer invoices and other project related invoices
- Analyzing / creating purchase orders
- Inputting vendor invoices daily into A/P system
- Researching / resolving vendor inquiries on the company’s payable invoices
- Auditing employee expense reports
- Preparing and distributing monthly / quarterly client production / studio invoicing
- Sourcing data as needed from various financial systems
- Driving process change, support process best practices and implement cost saving opportunities
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or equivalent business experience
Experience
- 5+ years’ experience
- Advertising / Marketing agency experience is A MUST – digital agency experience is a plus
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Proficient in QuickBooks Online
- Previous advertising agency experience
- Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to multitask and maintain a sense of urgency in fast paced environment
- Must be detail oriented and organized with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Positive attitude, honest and a team player mentality
- Mac Office package (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Must-have knowledge and expertise in revenue recognition and billing
- Experience with Expensify, Bill.com and T-sheets is a plus
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Organizational and time-management skills
Creative Director, AD
Job Summary
We are looking for a Creative Director specializing in art direction—who is driven to connect with every audience (both internally and across platforms). A resourceful problem solver that channels contagious energy to inspire and lead. At OKRP, we believe work is ready when we “feel” it.
This is a job for a maker and a leader. Working with a CD / CW, you will manage and lead assigned creative projects. You will also be responsible for contributing creative ideas to these assignments.
The CD / AD is responsible, in the area of creative for:
- Directly supporting your GCDs on your brand team’s creative development and championing the executions best aligned with strategic reasoning forward.
- Working with an existing (exceptionally talented!) OKRP Art partner, you will co-manage and contribute to the day-to-day on key pieces of existing business.
- Processing feedback and responding with creative that exceeds expectations.
- Managing the creative process with PMs and your partner will be key. You will have several balls in the air at once and need to keep things flowing smoothly, while continually reviewing and optimizing every piece of work – sometimes under changing deadlines and parameters.
- Mentoring, nurturing and creatively challenging ACDs, Sr. Art Directors, Art Directors and those reporting to you on a daily basis.
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Art, or related field of study
Experience
- 10 years minimum agency experience
- Strong recommendations
- Strong portfolio of work that features integrated big ideas brought to life through a wide-range of media channels
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Possesses strong art directing background / skills
- Plays nicely with others.
- Believes in great work and knows it when they see it.
- Willing to dive in head first to any assignment-big or small.
- Strong client-facing and presentation skills.
- A passion for all things art: type, photography, color, film etc…
- Be both right brained and left brained – but never overthink work.
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Energy, curiosity and an ability to maintain your sense of humor under tight timelines and long hours.
- Exceptional time-management, organization, written/verbal communication and presentation skills
- A passion and expertise for managing talent–you’ll come in ready to lead and develop a seasoned creative team
Content Strategist
Job Summary
As a Content Strategist at OKRP, you develop insights-driven content strategies that span the omni-channel marketing environment to deliver impactful and connected experiences for our clients.
You will use key data insights, research and knowledge of addressable digital platforms and content media to support the development of compelling content strategies that put audience aspirations and needs at the center of brand stories.
The Content Strategist is responsible for:
- The research and development of campaign and content strategies that address each client’s business goals
- Cultivating a deep understanding of brand objectives and consumer journeys
- Conducting digital and content audits of websites and social media channels
- Compiling competitive brand analyses and case studies to support strategic recommendations
- Contributing to the development of messaging frameworks, value propositions, and CTAs
- Day-to-day implementation of the campaign content elements that drive the campaign objective
- Collaborating on the development of original content concepts, bringing insights-driven perspective to the creative discussion
- Interpreting metrics-related content performance and adjusting strategies accordingly
- Researching content trends and best practices
The Content Strategist will:
- Collaborate across a team-based environment spanning all key agency departments and functions – brand strategy, creative, project management, account and production
- Work across teams to ensure accuracy of message, alignment across media channels, quality of content across a variety of key clients
- Participate in new business pitches by leading the research and development of the strategic and activation plans, as well as represent the agency in client presentations
- Support the development and growth of the agency’s Communication Planning & Innovation department offering through consistent learning, the development of materials, including marketing plans, presentations and case studies
- Work closely with digital strategist and analyst to ensure marketing insights and recommendations align with the overall strategic plan for campaigns across clients and projects
- Perform other tasks as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above
Education
- BA/BS in journalism, creative writing, communications, or marketing related field preferred
Experience
- 3-5+ years in strategic and content development
- Proven ability to work across teams and departments
- Previous experience in digital-oriented agency or publisher environment preferred
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Passion for discovery
- Obsession with organization and attention to details
- A creative problem-solver with the ability to work with speed and efficiency
- Readily adapts to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with all levels
- Self-starter with ability to balance day-to-day workload and long-term projects
- Strong command of language and writing
- Energy, curiosity and an ability to maintain a positive attitude under tight timelines and extended hours
- Proven success working with teams to effectively and efficiently deliver a project while at the same time enjoying the work
- Ability to create strong, positive, collaborative working relationships
- Knowledge of and experience in developing integrated marketing campaigns
- Ability to interpret various forms of research and data spans research, analytics, and performance data
- Ability to utilize digital analytics and research tools such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Webtrends, SEMrush and Sysomos
- Strong understanding of the digital ecosystem, social and digital platforms, usage behaviors and ad formats
- Familiarity with CMS and templates
- Familiarity with Google product suite (sheets, slides, etc.), Microsoft Office products including Point Point and Excel, Keynote
Digital Analyst
Job Summary
As a Digital Analyst at OKRP you provide business and consumer insights based on analyses of data activated within owned, earned and paid channels, as well as trend assessment and competitive brand monitoring.
You will use digital analytics to lead the development of compelling marketing insights to support the creation of brand content that puts audience aspirations and needs at the center of digital activations.
The Digital Analyst is responsible for:
- Delivering impactful analyses of media performance, channel mix, utilization, conversion, considering both the “what” and the “so what” aspects of each analysis performed
- Solving problems by proactively thinking through suitable approaches/frameworks and functioning as an analytics consultant to internal teams
- Ensuring alignment of marketing insights and recommendations with the overall strategic plan for campaigns across clients and projects
- Conducting digital and content audits of websites and social media channels
- Identifying and supporting testing opportunities to optimize audience targeting and channel performance
- Acting as a storyteller, creating dashboards and presentations that clearly convey actionable insights and recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences
The Digital Analyst will:
- Collaborate across a team-based environment spanning all key agency departments and functions – brand strategy, creative, project management and account
- Provide analyses across a variety of key clients
- Participate in new business pitches by supporting the research, analysis and planning
- Support the development and growth of the agency’s research and performance acumen
- Work closely with content and social media strategists to ensure marketing insights and recommendations align with the overall strategic plan for campaigns across clients and projects
- Perform other tasks as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above
Education
- BA/BS in advertising, business, communications or marketing related field preferred
Experience
- 2+ years in applied data analysis, preferably in a marketing research context
- Previous experience in digital-oriented agency a plus
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Passion for discovery
- Obsession with organization and attention to details
- A creative problem-solver with the ability to work with speed and efficiency
- Readily adapts to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with all levels
- Self-starter with ability to balance day-to-day workload and long-term projects
- Strong command of language and writing
- Energy, curiosity and an ability to maintain a positive attitude under tight timelines and extended hours
- Proven success leading groups to effectively and efficiently deliver a project while at the same time enjoying the work
- Able to create strong, positive, collaborative working relationships
- The ability to build consensus and cultivate trust among interagency departments and clients
- Knowledge and experience in developing integrated marketing campaigns
- Ability to interpret various forms of data spanning research, analytics, and performance data
- Ability to interpret digital analytics and utilize research tools such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Webtrends, SEMrush and Sysomos
- Strong understanding of the digital ecosystem, social and digital platforms, usage behaviors and ad formats
- Familiarity with CMS, templates and social management tools (Spreadfast, Sprout etc.)
- Familiarity with Google product suite (sheets, slides, etc.), Microsoft Office products including Point Point and Excel, Keynote
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Organizational and time-management skills
Senior Social Media Strategist
Job Summary
As a Senior Social Media Strategist at OKRP, you manage and implement social media strategies that combine the reach of social platforms with deep audience segmentation, robust optimization techniques and strong action-based content to generate results.
Through the use of social analytics and a keen knowledge of addressable social media platforms, you will lead the development of compelling social media strategies that put audience and stakeholder aspirations and needs at the center of the social experience.
Deeply engaged in our client’s business, you will be the day-to-day point of contact for key clients to evaluate real-time opportunities, provide consistent strategic guidance and develop new growth opportunities across channels.
The Senior Social Media Strategist is responsible for:
- Translating business objectives into social media objectives, enriched by benchmarks
- Managing and communicating with our client’s social media teams and partners on the development and activation of social media programs
- Ensuring alignment of marketing insights and social media recommendations with the overall strategic plan for campaigns across clients and projects
- Solving problems by proactively thinking through suitable approaches/frameworks and functioning as a social media consultant to clients, interagency and internal teams
- Developing and delivering presentations, briefs and activation plans that clearly convey actionable insights and recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences
- Interpreting metrics related to content performance and adjusting strategies accordingly
- Innovating and experimenting with new forms of content storytelling, production and distribution in collaboration with brand strategy, creative and production teams
- Oversight of the implementation of A/B testing and messaging matrix based on segmented targeting
The Senior Social Media Strategist will:
- Collaborate across a team-based environment spanning all key agency departments and functions – brand strategy, creative, project management, account and production
- Manage and collaborate on a daily basis with clients, interagency and partner teams
- Participate in client planning sessions
- Participate in new business pitches by supporting the research and development of the strategic and activation plans, as well as representing the agency in client presentations
- Support the development and growth of the agency’s Communication Planning & Innovation department offering through consistent learning, process development and implementation of new approaches
- Proactively identify social media trends while maintaining knowledge of best practices across channels
- Define content amplification principles including segmentation and contextualization
- Work closely with digital and content strategist and analyst to ensure marketing insights and recommendations align with the overall strategic plan for campaigns across clients and projects
- Perform other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above
Education
- BA/BS in advertising, business, communications or marketing related field preferred
Experience
- 5-7 years in applied digital research and strategic development
- Experienced performer with the ability to work across teams and departments
- Ecommerce and CRM experience a plus
- Previous agency experience preferred
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Passion for discovery
- Obsession with organization and attention to details
- A creative problem-solver with the ability to work with speed and efficiency
- Readily adapts to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with all levels
- Self-starter with ability to balance day-to-day workload and long-term projects
- Strong command of language and writing
- Energy, curiosity and an ability to maintain a positive attitude under tight timelines and extended hours
- Proven success leading groups to effectively and efficiently deliver a project while at the same time enjoying the work
- Able to create strong, positive, collaborative working relationships
- The ability to build consensus and cultivate trust among interagency departments and clients
- Knowledge and experience in developing integrated marketing campaigns
- Ability to interpret various forms of data spanning research, analytics, and performance data
- Ability to interpret digital analytics and utilize research tools such as Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Webtrends, SEMrush and Sysomos
- Strong understanding of the digital ecosystem, social and digital platforms, usage behaviors and ad formats
- Familiarity with CMS, templates and social management tools (Spreadfast, Sprout etc.)
- Familiarity with Google product suite (sheets, slides, etc.), Microsoft Office products including Point Point and Excel, Keynote
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Organizational and time-management skills
Billing Specialist
Job Summary
Our nimble, quick and collaborative creative agency is currently seeking a Billing Specialist with ad agency experience. We move quickly, so we need to think on our feet and avoid getting stuck in the process. We thrive on curating real-time solutions to real-time challenges.
The Billing Specialist owns all day-to-day financial needs specific to our Illinois Department of Tourism account. The person best equipped to succeed in this role will be extremely detail-oriented and not easily intimidated by heavy data entry work. They will also possess strong interpersonal skills as this is a clientand vendor-facing role.
Specific training in IDOT’s (Illinois Department of Tourism) MTS (market tracking system) will be required. Prior knowledge / experience in this system is a huge bonus.
Responsibilities
The Billing Specialist is responsible, in the area of Finance for:
- Serving as the financial POC for the IOT client as well as associated vendors
- Full cycle billing and collections process for designated account with IOT
- Researching / resolving vendor inquiries on the company’s payable invoices
- Completes monthly account and revenue reconciliation
- Generates and maintains client required reporting
- Maintains internal tracking sheets for billing and expenses
- Meet deadlines, maximizing efficiency, maintaining accuracy, and confidentiality of the financial data
- Performing other duties as required or assigned that are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or equivalent business experience
Experience
- 2-5 years’ experience in a billing role
- Advertising / Marketing agency experience is a plus
- Experience in IDOT’s MTS is a plus, too
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- Exceptional communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills. You communicate well with internal account teams, clients and vendors
- Ability to multitask and maintain a sense of urgency in fast paced environment
- Strong excel skills, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, and ability to compile lots of data into meaningful reporting
- Must be detail oriented and organized
- Proficiency in IOT’s specific billing entry system, MTS (mandatory training will be provided – previous experience is a plus)
- Positive attitude, honest and a team player mentality
- Flexibility and adaptability in the face of ambiguity and change
- Organizational and time-management skills
*Applications MUST include resume