Business Planning Specialist

Business Planning Specialist

12+ Months Contract – Austin, TX – Hybrid

• Minimum 3 years of experience
• Intermediate to expert-level proficiency in Excel
• Data analytics experience, preferably with a focus on finance
• Strong background in finance and mathematics

Worldwide Marketing at
*** is looking to hire an A-player to help create, own and drive Marketing’s budgeting and funding process. This function stretches across all the business units as well as multiple functions at ***. You will help coordinate a fast-paced super collaborate team of individuals who are passionate about their work and thrive on guaranteeing the best ROI for ***. Your function will range from supporting a highly functioning/collaborative team while ensuring budget accuracy, managing/creating metrics and helping direct marketing spend strategy.

You will have the opportunity to interact with P/L owners, GM’s, finance/HR/Ops, external partners and sales/marketing leaders across the globe. If operational excellence, data, metrics and soft skills appeal to you this role will help you expand. You will be surrounded by a team that will help build, support and provide multiple development opportunities for you.

To be successful in this role, you are a comfortable with change, dealing with difficult deadlines, great at communicating, innovate on the fly, build relationships and trust, be highly aligned with your constituents all while driving the CMO’s objectives and being the best steward of our spend.

• Budget tracking & reporting for partner marketing spend. Own end-to-end budget reporting and analysis processes. Provide in-depth strategic analysis on optimal partner marketing spend strategy and execution.
• Manage Global Marketing Fund:
  Full ownership on the funding traffic across programs and business divisions.
• Budget communication:
  Effectively communicate the Funding allocation or budget movement in timely manner.
• Alignment:
  Collaborate with other cross-functional internal
  *** Teams, taking proactive steps to achieve a seamless process.
• Coordinate month/quarter close end reporting and reconciliation. Provide quarter end reports for different stakeholders. This includes on-time delivery at the expected level of accuracy and completeness.
• Mandatory, fluency in English (verbal and written).

• Extensive experience in finance disciplines with a focus on planning, operations, data analytics and reporting.
• Mastery of MS Excel, familiar with Power BI and Power Point.
• Prior exposure to cross functional and global teams.
• Past ownership of budgets, with extensive experience in planning, reporting and analysis.
• Ability to drive consensus and change.
• Data detail oriented.

• Bachelor’s degree (finance/accounting or a technical background is preferred).
• Prefer 3+ years of finance/accounting/budgeting/planning experience with increasing levels of responsibility; with extensive exposure to operations, planning and budget management.