Overview:

This role is a critical part of managing the marketing budgets. The incumbent will be responsible for presenting to Management the overall financial health of the business. With support from the Manager of Analytics, the incumbent will coordinate the budgeting and forecasting of marketing spends forecast.

The incumbent will generate a variety of reports that keep management informed on the status of marketing spends. The incumbent will act as the day-to-day finance resource for all marketing programs & will work closely with all the Marketing Managers. The incumbent will be responsible for performing in-depth analysis and presenting key findings and recommendations concerning areas of risk or saving opportunities.

The incumbent will work closely with both internal & external stakeholders and develop both regular and ad-hoc reports as required.

Hybrid: 4 days in office (Mon-Thu)

Responsibilities:

Financial Budgeting:

- Consolidate marketing spending budget or forecast each period for the businesses. Ensuring marketing forecasts is realistic. Adjusting forecast amounts if necessary.
- Prepare catalog rates and circulation forecast, based on promotion plan and rates input from corporate marketing.
- Manage Freelance budget and forecast for two divisions.
- Manage and reconcile vendor funded marketing spend
- Create current budget tracking files and GL set up new initiatives e.g. Grand Opening Stores and Bell
- Participate in the annual budget planning process
- Meet with managers regularly, to review actual spending and forecasts for future periods.
- Be alert about any spending issues and highlight issues to manager.
- Be the finance resource that answers questions and can solve day-to-day problems related to managing marketing spend.

Financial Reporting & Analysis





- Provide monthly and quarterly expenses with comments to Manager and Marketing VP.
- Submit Month End Accruals to Finance
- Submit Month End Forecast for all marketing channels to Finance.
- Month End GL Reconciliation
- Month End Budget Review meeting with Marketing VP.
- Monthly budget meeting with all marketing channel budget owners
- Generate reports for each media spend e.g. TV Media spend or Digital Spend
- Perform Ad hoc analysis and reports as required, e.g. Quarterly or Year over Year comparison reports, Marketing Investment Spend report & Special request reports etc.

Invoices & Payment

- Ensure proper GL coding on invoices and make sure it applies to the right business.
- Check all marketing related invoices against the budget to ensure the planned spending
- Manage Freelance invoices and payment and ensure it is charged to the correct business unit.
- Prepare documents to set up new vendors and coordinate with account payable.
- Manage Vendor enquires on payment status

Qualifications:

- University degree (Commerce or BBA preferred)
- 1-3 years of progressive experience in a similar role
- High degree of comfort and aptitude for data manipulation & extraction
- Ability to draw deep insight from complex data & present key recommendations & findings
- Strong financial acumen
- Good data management experience
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- Proficiency MS Access and Excel,
- Proficiency with SQL
- Proficiency in Brio (or similar reporting tool)
- Experience with Statistical software such as SPSS and/or SAS is a benefit
- Experience with Oracle & Sequel Server would be an asset
- Excellent Communication/Presentation
- Clear big picture thinker, problem solver and the ability to pay attention to details

If you’re qualified and interested in this opportunity, send your resume in word format to Hira Khan at [email protected].

📌 Marketing Financial Analyst (5-month contract) (Richmond Hill)
🏢 randstad canada
📍 Richmond Hill