: Finance Manager

Job title: Finance Manager 2

Location:Bellevue, WA

Duration: 12 Months

Description:

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Manage the Account Team’s Marketing budget, including but not limited to

o Consolidate marketing program details, such as program structure, background, business and financial details from program owners and deliver overall Account-level view.

o Manage and forecast budget plans, reconcile between planned budget and actuals and lead month-end closing with variance reporting

o Categorize the marketing spending, keep the track record of the historical the spend, and provide MoM, QoQ and YoY comparisons.

o Coordinate between Marketing, Sales and Finance Teams on marketing budget allocation process based on priority and business needs.

o Coordinate the program owners to prepare quality documentation for approval process.

o Validate final deliverables against contract, communicate issues with the stakeholders (if any), develop solutions and recommendations and lead payment process.

Background/Experience Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or business-related field

• 6+ years of work experience (mobile or CPG industry preferred)

• Strong understanding of traditional and digital marketing, the principles of driving audience relevance, budget management but ultimately the need to drive sales

• A proven self-starter, they must be a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Outstanding interpersonal and problem-solving skills for both internal and external discussions

• Work independently and in a team environment in order to achieve business objectives, personal and team goals, and complete assignments within established timeframes and specifications

Necessary Skills and Attributes:

• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with all assigned levels within and outside the company

• Plan, organize, and prioritize multiple assignments and projects

• Review detailed product development, marketing documents and media materials

• Advanced Excel functions, such as pivot tables, various lookups, sumifs, sumproducts, index/match, concat.

• Demonstrated competency in both oral and written communication modes for both internal and external personnel at various levels.

• The ability to develop tasks and work assignments, based on sometime vaguely defined objectives

Physical/Mental Demands:

• The position requires the ability to perform the essential duties and responsibilities in the following environment:

o Work is generally performed in an office environment

o Operate a computer keyboard and view a video display terminal 50% of work time, including prolonged periods of time

o The movement and transportation of equipment, most of the time under 25 pounds

o Performs work under time schedules and stresses which are normally periodic or cyclical, including time sensitive job stress, fatigue, unpaid over-time, intellectual challenge, constant technical data feedback, language barriers, and business management stress

o Machines, tools, equipment, and work aids representative and commonly associated with PCs, printers, and office work areas