EMEA Marketing Finance Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee annual, quarterly, and ad hoc budget planning activities within the Global Digital Marketing organization.

• Maintain documentation for budget tracking and provide insight into media investments and expenditures.

• Monitor budget pacing and identify risks of over- or under-spending.

• Assist in forecasting and budget recommendations for the Digital Media team.

• Document and update budget changes and reallocations within financial tracking systems.

• Lead the quarterly accrual process across various digital marketing channels, regions, and agency partners.

• Gather, validate, consolidate, and submit accrual information within Finance deadlines.

• Validate services rendered, media used, outstanding invoices, and financial obligations.

• Identify missing charges, verify estimates, and resolve discrepancies in accruals.

• Reconcile accruals with invoices and actual expenditures.

• Prepare financial summaries, expenditure reports, and variance analyses.

• Facilitate monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial closes and reporting.

• Lead reconciliations encompassing budgets, media platform expenditures, agency reports, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, and internal financial systems.

• Investigate discrepancies to determine root causes and corrective measures.

• Ensure that paid media investments are allocated to the correct cost centers, accounts, purchase orders, and financial codes.

• Maintain financial documentation, reconciliation records, and audit trails.

• Ensure adherence to Autodesk financial policies, processes, controls, and reporting standards.

• Manage financial operations with agency and vendor partners, including purchase orders, invoicing, fees, media investment tracking, and payment issues.

• Oversee the initiation, tracking, updating, and management of purchase orders.

• Monitor purchase order balances and funding for anticipated and committed investments.

• Review and validate agency invoices and accompanying documentation.

• Resolve billing discrepancies, erroneous charges, missing invoices, and payment concerns.

• Ensure invoices are submitted, coded, approved, and processed within required timelines.

• Maintain visibility into outstanding invoices and financial commitments.

• Collaborate with Paid Media Managers, Finance teams, agencies, and marketing stakeholders on financial operations.

• Communicate financial deadlines, budget modifications, accrual requirements, reconciliation findings, and reporting expectations.

• Provide guidance on financial processes, budget tracking, purchase orders, invoicing, and accrual requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in finance, financial operations, accounting, budget management, media finance, or a related field.

• Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, accruals, purchase orders, invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reporting.

• Proven experience in managing complex financial processes involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, budgets, or cost centers.

• Strong analytical abilities to identify discrepancies, investigate root causes, and reconcile various financial data sources.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.

• Strong organizational and project management skills, capable of managing multiple deadlines and financial cycles concurrently.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Ability to work independently, take ownership of intricate processes, and proactively identify financial risks or issues.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel or equivalent financial analysis tools.

• Experience with enterprise financial systems, reporting tools, or procurement platforms is preferred.

• Experience supporting marketing, paid media, advertising, or agency financial operations is an asset.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.

• Annual cash bonuses may be included.

• Commissions may be included for sales roles.

• Stock grants may be included.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be provided/required.