Consultant, Singapore

The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has become available to be part of our fast-growing team and to be a key part of the Client Services function. This role provides an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and will provide an ambitious individual with valuable experience for progression and development.

The Company

mediasense is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. We help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale. Our ambition is to define and own an entirely new category – recognized as the world’s most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor. We do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect. Because progress doesn’t happen in isolation, it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust. That’s what we enable. That’s what we stand for. That’s Unified Marketing Intelligence.

mediasense is designed around how we help marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), governance and controls (Assurance), and measurement and effectiveness (Science). We have the proven ability to effectively support large, complex organizations and deliver multiple projects simultaneously. As evidenced through our strong track record with clients, we pride ourselves on the consistent high quality of service delivery and the ability to accelerate transformation and growth.

mediasense and has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.
For more information, visit www.media-sense.com

The Role

This role is for a Consultant, based in Singapore.

This is a role that is responsible for leading commercial analysis, fee benchmarking, and financial compliance projects across local and global clients. Close collaboration with directors, senior consultants and the analyst team is essential to ensure mediasense delivers consistently high-quality work within agreed timelines.

The role itself will involve a range of activities including:

Commercial Analysis & Compliance

• Support directors and senior consultants in delivering commercial and financial consulting scopes for clients across multiple markets.
• Lead commercial evaluation preparation and analysis in clients’ pitch management projects.
• Coordinate with advertising agencies to obtain commercial proposals, track progress, and ensure submissions are accurate and complete.
• Analysis of agency fee proposals, fee benchmarking, review contract terms, and identify negotiation opportunities.
• Liaise with client and agency teams to clarify commercial assumptions, validate inputs, and support negotiation process.
• Support the refinement of internal benchmarking tools, templates, and workflows to drive consistency and efficiency.
• Lead financial compliance audits through document reviews, walkthroughs, and summarisation of findings.
• Prepare clear, structured analysis and contribute to client-ready reports and presentations.
• Maintain organised working papers, documentation, and structured storage of project data.

Scope Tracking & Reconciliation

• Help clients to customise reconciliation templates to track client scope utilisation.
• Collect, validate, and analyse data from agencies, identifying discrepancies and following up on clarifications.
• Prepare clear analysis of budget vs actual utilisation, and identify key drivers of variances.
• Highlight reconciliation findings, risks, and potential agency fee impacts in a structured and client-ready format.
• Track follow-up actions and support consultants in subsequent review cycle/period.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Strong understanding of audit principles, financial controls, and commercial evaluation.
• Excellent analytical skills — able to structure data, identify patterns, and extract meaningful insights.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power Query, Power Pivot and PowerPoint; able to build robust, transparent analytical models.
• Excellent communication and stakeholders management skills, with the ability to clearly express commercial issues, findings, and practical recommendations.
• A positive, proactive mindset that balances speed with quality and accuracy.
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively across markets and time zones.
• Experience supervising analysts and reviewing outputs, providing structured guidance, coaching, and quality assurance to ensure consistent delivery standards.
• Demonstrated ability to support the development of junior team members through on-the-job coaching and feedback.
• Prior experience (5–8 years) in Audit, Management Consulting, Commercial/Financial Analysis, or Data Analytics.
• Experience in Advertising/Marketing industry, and/or working with regional teams, is an advantage.
• Demonstrates integrity, reliability, and strong organisational discipline.
• Experience in dashboarding and data visualisation (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio or similar tools) is an advantage.