Marketing Investment Senior Analyst

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The Senior Analyst is responsible for the planning tracking and optimization of marketing spend to maximize impact and ensure financial discipline. This role reports to the Director of Investment Strategy and partners with Product Owners Channel Owners and Finance/FP&A to manage annual and quarterly budgets oversee purchase workflows improve forecast accuracy and deliver insights on variances risks and cost efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

1) Budget Tracking & Forecasting

• Partner with Marketing leaders to develop annual and quarterly budgets that achieve strategic objectives.
• Manage monthly quarterly and annual rhythms within the Marketing org to enable transparent budget management across the team holding budget managers accountability for reforecasts and identification of risks and opportunities for spend optimizations.
• Build and maintain budget models that align spend to goals and enables scenario planning in support of changes to business priorities in order to maximize return on investment.

2) Spend Governance & Operational Control

• Own marketing spend governance: approvals spend thresholds vendor onboarding PO requests MA approvals and invoice processes.
• Partner with Procurement and Finance to ensure contract compliance correct coding of financial artifacts and timely accruals.
• Implement controls to reduce maverick spend and improve audit readiness (documentation SOWs terms and approvals).
• Periodically optimize spend taxonomy (product channel campaign program type region cost center).

3) Reporting Insights & Executive Readouts

• Produce weekly/monthly budget status reporting: actuals vs budget vs forecast burn rates and variance explanations.
• Create executive dashboards and summaries for CMO/VPs: spend pacing forecast risk and reallocation recommendations.
• Identify under/over-spend trends and propose corrective actions (shift funds across channels adjust campaign timing).
• Support Finance with month-end close accruals and variance narratives specific to marketing activity.

4) Marketing ROI & Efficiency Analysis

• Support Analytics in connecting spend with outcomes: MMM PAS CAC CPL ROAS.
• Support business case development for incremental investment headcount tools and agencies.
• Track and report savings initiatives (rate-card negotiations vendor consolidation tooling rationalization).

5) Process Improvement & Tooling

• Improve the end-to-end marketing finance workflow (intake approval PO invoice reporting).
• Maintain and enhance tools used for budget tracking (Excel ERP procurement system or marketing spend platforms) with an eye toward automation and future proofing for Marketing Investment organization.
• Create templates and playbooks for channel owners (forecasting reallocation requests).
• Train marketers on budget best practices and spend governance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business Economics or related field
• 5 years in budgeting/FP&A/financial operations with direct marketing spend exposure
• Demonstrated experience managing large multichannel marketing budgets forecasting variance analysis and executive reporting
• Experience with financial systems and budget/reporting tools such as Workday Excel and Power BI

Preferred Qualifications

• Oversight of large marketing budgets including agency and media spend portfolios
• Experience working in a matrixed environment across multiple stakeholders
• Familiarity with purchase order invoice and month close workflows including managing accruals

Desired Skills & Competencies

• Advanced Excel (models pivots scenario planning) and strong financial acumen
• Ability to translate marketing plans into budgets and forecasts
• Strong stakeholder management with marketers and finance leaders
• Process orientation (governance documentation audit readiness)
• Data storytelling for executive audiences
• Collaborative mindsight with high ownership attention to detail and comfort working cross-functionally
• Aptitude with AI and experience with data automation with a vision for building agentic tools to improve processes

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

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Great Culture:Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards:Competitive pay benefits and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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