Business Planning Specialist

Job Title:
Business Planning Specialist

Duration: 12 months contract (W2)

Location:
Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Pay rate $26/hr on W2

US Citizen or GC holder accepted

Worldwide Marketing 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. 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.

• 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 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. 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 AMD 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.