Marketing Strategy & Operations, Associate Analyst

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Marketing

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Marketing Operations Associate Analyst
San Francisco, CA

The Marketing Operations team’s goal is to increase marketing efficiency and organizational agility through world class functional budget strategies, automation and analytics. The Marketing Operations Associate Analyst role reports to the Manager of Marketing Operations, Budgeting & Planning in the Corporate Marketing group. In this role, the Marketing Operations Associate Analyst will manage the Corporate Marketing budgets and is responsible for ensuring that all quarterly funds are spent timely and accurately. The Marketing Operations Associate Analyst also supports management with standardized & ad hoc reporting to provide data & analysis for trending and decision making.

Responsibilities:

·  Support the Marketing Operations team and manage the budgets and spending for Worldwide Marketing teams to within 1% of the Corporate Marketing program spend target each quarter.
·  Design, implement, and maintain advanced budget reports and dashboards for budget stake holders to better understand daily, monthly, and quarterly spend details
·  Conduct monthly and post-quarter reconciliations of all Marketing budgets and manage incremental budget requests from global teams.
·  Ensure that all purchase requisitions are accurately recorded in the Marketing Resource Management (MRM) tool for Accounting and quarterly close purposes.
·  Build strong working relationships with business partners within Marketing & other cross functional groups. Sustain leadership role for spend data accuracy in the company.
·  Lead meetings with regional and functional budget owners to review quarterly budget.
·  Understand workflows & interdependencies of Marketing spending among global Finance, Accounting, AP & Strategic Sourcing cross functional teams. Be proactive to ensure adherence of process and procedures and to provide resolution of issues found.
·  Identify and lead process improvements for the budget to spend process including system automation.
·  Assist the budget planning team develop the annual business plan by providing required data trends, reports and insights for the various marketing functions and regions.
·  Train Marketing personnel on how to use the requisitioning tools and understand expense recognition rules to adhere to GAAP & SOX compliance.

Other Requirements:

·  Motivated self-starter able work independently with ability to keep up in a fast paced environment.
·  Exceptional interpersonal, leadership, and communication skills to work and collaborate with worldwide Marketing teams.
·  Prior work experience w/international regions a plus.
·  Thorough understanding and experience in procure-to-pay end-to-end process.
·  Financial background a plus. Knowledge of GAAP & SOX compliance.
·  Strong Accounting background to understand expense recognition a plus.
·  Detail oriented to ensure accuracy in completion of tasks.
·  Excellent system skills including Excel, PowerPoint, Oracle, Coupa & Salesforce
·  SQL proficiency a plus
·  1-3 years of experience in Operations, Finance and/or Procurement.

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