Job Description
We are looking for a finance focused Program Manager to join our team, to work on planning, optimizing and managing our finance and budgeting process across teams to ensure our media investments are as effective as possible.
You will be responsible for managing budget planning and submissions, recommendations & facilitation of ad hoc budget adjustments, owning & maintaining process documentation and records, maintaining our relationships with procurement, marketing optimization and finance.
What you’ll do:
- Develop, own and maintain Media financial processes including budgets, accruals, reconciliations and planning
- Identify opportunities to improve, streamline and automate finance processes
- Develop strong relationships with cross functional teams to bridge gaps between Finance, Procurement, Marketing Optimization and Media, owning partner communication, engagement & alignment
- Facilitate ad-hoc budget changes across multiple stakeholders
- Manage ongoing procurement processes and contract renewal deadlines
- Identify risks and opportunities, and quantify their potential impact, on an ongoing basis
- Play an integral role in supporting decision-making on where and how we spend money across all offline and digital media platforms.
- Drive deeper insight into the performance of the business by exploring the data in new ways, and collaborating with subject matter experts in Marketing, Analytics, and elsewhere in Finance to operationalize those insights into tangible improvements in how the business runs its investments
- Strive for optimum organizational efficiency by applying systems thinking, across boundaries and making recommendations about processes.
- Take a whole systems approach to analyze issues and implement holistic solutions by ensuring that linkages between structure, people, process and technology are made
- Assist with delivering additional Media Operations projects as needed