Financial Modeling - Optimization Team

Company: Targeted Victory
Location: Arlington
Posted on: June 20, 2022

Job Description:

About Us:Targeted Victory is a full-service marketing agency providing optimized outcomes in the digital age. We are made up of fresh thinking, curious minded, supportive, and team oriented individuals. Our clients, including national political and international decision makers, count on our team of top strategists to provide comprehensive solutions and strategic counsel on public affairs, advertising, media planning, fundraising and reputation management. We have collectively raised our clients more than $1.5 billion in online fundraising, managed over $335 million in digital advertising, delivered over 13.5 billion emails and 3 billion text messages, and have sold and fulfilled over 3.25 million units of merchandise. Targeted Victory is the proud recipient of the 2022 Reed Award for Best Employer, 2021 Campaign Tech Award for Best Employer, and the 2021 Reed Award for Best Employer: Work-From-Home Transition. Job Summary:Targeted Victory is looking for an individual with prior experience as a financial analyst to join its Optimization team to help build financial modeling tools that will support client teams in creating dynamic fundraising plans to help maximize clients' goals. The Optimization team is tasked with closing the performance gap, coupling data and analytics capabilities with unmatched political experience to help provide powerful insights to our internal teams as well as our clients. Optimization is a high-visibility team that has direct lines of communication into the company's Chief Marketing Officer and Executive team. The team is integral to Targeted Victory's innovative efforts to professionalize and optimize performance marketing within the political space for its growing client base of right-leaning candidates, committees, organizations, and causes. Candidates with finance or quantitative backgrounds and an interest in political fundraising and modeling will thrive in this role and are encouraged to apply. Prior computer science and/or business analytics coursework or experience is a plus. This role is based in Arlington, VA and will report to the Managing Director of Analytics within Targeted Victory's Optimization team. Key Responsibilities:

• Build and manage proprietary modeling tools used to evaluate and track fundraising plans and performance
• Collaborate with the company's FP&A, Operations, and Client Strategy teams on the company's annual budgeting process, ensuring that fundraising plans are completed in a standardized and timely fashion
• Ensure the accuracy of fundraising plan details in the company's CRM tool
• Become proficient in Targeted Victory's data systems and workflows
• Think outside the box and experiment with new approaches to political and fundraising data
• Work with other Optimization team members to think critically and problem solve on ad hoc projectsPosition Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in or a minimum of 4 years of prior experience in finance, accounting, or economics
  • Expert in Microsoft Excel with BI tool experience with business intelligence tools (Tableau, etc.)
  • Keen attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
  • Self-starter with a high level of motivation and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Exhibits professionalism, particularly in executive and external communicationsCriminal Background ChecksTargeted Victory offers are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.Targeted Victory provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Targeted Victory complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.Targeted Victory expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Targeted Victory employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

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