# Finance Business Partner (Creative)

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: Vancouver
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

The Finance Business Partner (Creative) serves as the analytical engine of the finance department, focusing on the 'why' and the 'what's next' rather than just the 'what happened.' This role ensures that creative ambitions are backed by rigorous financial logic and scalable models.

As part of the Engage Divisional Finance team, reporting to the VP Finance Business Partnering (Social & Creative), this role focuses on supporting our Creative Marketing Pillar, acting as an advisor to the Pillars executive team, using data-driven insights to influence Pillar strategy.

This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Operations, and Business Development, providing the financial architecture needed to scale the studio profitably.

Key responsibilities include:

Advanced Financial Modeling & Forecasting: Building and maintaining sophisticated models to project the long-term health of the studio.

Scenario Planning: Creating 'What-If' analyses to evaluate the impact of losing a major anchor client, expanding into a new geographic market, or shifting from project-based fees to a retainer model.

Operational Partnership & Advisory: Working directly with Creative, Production, and Account Directors to translate their operational KPIs (e.g., billable utilization, pitch win rates) into financial outcomes.

Resource Optimization: Analyzing the 'Build vs. Buy' trade-offs for production,deciding when to hire full-time staff versus leveraging high-cost freelance talent based on pipeline velocity.

Financial Gatekeeper & Liaison: Serving as the primary point of contact between Creative/Operational teams whilst partnering closely with the Finance Manager to ensure seamless financial compliance.

Performance Monitoring: Owning the monthly and quarterly variance analysis, deeply investigating deviations from budget and working with department heads to implement corrective operational actions.

Profitability & Margin Engineering: Performing deep-dive 'Post-Mortem' analyses on major campaigns to identify 'scope creep' and margin erosion, recommending pricing adjustments for future contracts.

Strategic Capital Allocation: Leading the financial due diligence for major capital expenditures, such as upgrading production equipment or investing in tools.

Data Visualization & Reporting: Designing and managing automated Google Sheets dashboards that provide the leadership team with real-time visibility into metrics like Revenue per Head and EBITDA margin.

Requirements:

Fully qualified accountant (e.g., CPA, CA, ACA, ACCA) with 5–8 years of progressive experience in high-growth Finance roles (FP&A, Strategic Finance) within a Global Finance function.

Exceptional Finance business partnering and influencing skills, paired with strong commercial acumen and organizational savvy.

A bias for action, advanced problem-solving capabilities, and proven success in influencing strategic decisions and managing change.

Experience working in organisations that have high levels of contract-driven revenue and require careful attention to revenue forecasting and managing the drivers of contract margins (e.g. staff utilisation), including but not limited to Agency/Media space, professional services, business and technology consulting.

Expert-level Google Sheets skills (sheet linking, complex formulas, and data structure) and proficiency with ERPs (e.g., NetSuite, Quickbooks, Workday).

Ability to simplify complex financial concepts for creative leaders without losing the technical nuance.

Strong results orientation with the ability to challenge existing mindsets and drive process improvement.

Advanced financial analysis and scenario modelling skills.

Collaborative and inclusive approach to working with team members and colleagues.

## Skills

### Required
- Google Sheets
- ERPs (NetSuite, Quickbooks, Workday)
- Financial modeling
- Scenario planning
- Financial analysis
- Problem-solving
- Influencing
- Commercial acumen
- Organisational savvy

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