Senior Finance Business Partner

Job Description

MGID is a global native advertising platform that helps brands reach unique local audiences at scale. At MGID, we empower brands and publishers to collaborate transparently through our privacy-first targeting technology. This enables advertisers to drive performance and awareness while allowing publishers to retain and monetize their audiences. Today, we’re creating innovative technologies, and with your help, we aim to reach even greater heights.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to join our newly established FP&A function and help transform financial planning and business decision-making across MGID. Working closely with business leaders, you will drive commercial insights, improve profitability and cash flow, and play a key role in implementing strategic financial initiatives, including a new prepayments policy.

What you will do:

Strategic Business Partnering & Commercial Governance

• Executive Co-Pilot: Serve as the primary commercial advisor to department heads (Publishing, Partnerships, Sales, Operations), translating complex financial realities into actionable strategic choices.
• Constructive Challenge: Actively evaluate business cases, hiring plans, and commercial assumptions. Ensure commercial decisions are backed by rigorous ROI data.
• Investment & ROI Evaluation: Support the financial appraisal, scenario planning, and business case framework for major new strategic initiatives, product launches, and capital deployment.

Architecture, Financial Modelling & Budgeting

• P&L & Forecast: Support business leaders and the FP&A team in preparing rolling forecasts and annual budgets, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Driver-Based Forecasting: Build and optimize dynamic financial models that clearly link non-financial operational drivers (e.g., traffic, CPM, CPC, etc) directly to financial outcomes (revenue, margin, cash).
• Unit Economics Mastery: Lead deep-dive analyses into company profitability, pricing strategies.

Data Infrastructure & BI Collaboration

• Metric Standardisation: Partner with the Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Engineering teams to build automated, scalable single-source-of-truth data models.
• Dashboard Evolution: Help transition the business away from individual dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Looker, PowerBI) to integrated ones.

Requirements

Who you are:

• 7+ years of experience in finance, FP&A, or Finance Business Partnering - ideally in a digital, adtech, marketplace, SaaS, or platform business.
• Experience building or significantly transforming processes, not just maintaining them.
• Strong in financial analysis, large datasets, Excel, and financial modelling.
• Able to explain complex financial topics clearly to non-financial stakeholders and work across functions.
• Combines strategic thinking with a hands-on, practical approach - comfortable working in an environment where processes are still being built.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field.

Will be a plus:

• Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
• Professional certification: ACCA, CFA, CIMA, or similar.
• Big Four background.
• Experience working with two-sided business models or marketplace economics.

Languages proficiency:

• Fluent English, Ukrainian

At MGID, we thrive on innovation, collaboration, and a passion for AdTech. Our culture is built on openness, transparency, and a shared drive for excellence. We empower our teams to take bold steps, embrace challenges, and grow together in a dynamic, people-first environment. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions are valued, and your potential has no limits. Join us and shape the future of digital advertising!

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