Please direct your responses to: jeannie.fernandez@experis.com
Title: Operations Analyst (Marketing/Finance)
Location: San Jose, CA
Contract: 6+months (renewed quarterly)
This position is for an Operations Analyst with Marketing or Finance Ops Management background with very good interfacing skills to coodinate budget management, financial or budget analysis and create reports on a monthly or quarterly basis. You will handle POs and SOWs in addition to Excel spreadsheets.
Job Description: This job consists of operations and budget planning support and requires collaboration to different teams to manage and assess requirements for all budget efforts. This position is the key role from supported organizations into the Operations team.
The Operations Team drives cross functional projects to gain efficiencies in the budget planning/procurement process. The candidate will also work on other special projects, as assigned.
Other responsibilities include:
- Define and drive process improvements through organization
- Provide analysis and reporting to support operations reviews
- Drive budget planning related processes through supported teams
- Provide business planning assistance, periodic measurements of effectiveness, and facilitate efforts to optimize operational efficiency through business process definition and re-engineering
- Manage the design and implementation of business processes ensuring that business initiatives align with strategy
Skills Required
- 6-8 years experience in Operations or Finance role
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills plus a good understanding of how systems and applications work
- Able to develop strategies and solutions that align to ´the bigger picture´
- Good communication skills and the ability to convey the key points of complex topics in a concise manner
- Able to work with a geographically-distributed team and other remote groups
- Collaboration and teamwork skills; must be comfortable working with contractors, individual contributors and senior management and with virtual and cross-organizational teams
- Able to prioritize multiple requests and work under tight deadlines
- Able to work independently with preset objectives and goals
- Background and experience with budgeting and spend management
- Attention to detail
- Flexibility to adapt to a variety of situations and tasks
- Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Preferred Skills:
- Prior finance or accounting experience
- Proficiency with database tools (Microsoft Access, Oracle, Essbase, Sybase)
- Prior experience with MRM (Siebel Analytics)
Specific responsibilities include:
- Manage and be accountable for budget and spending plans
- Provide budget and expense reporting for the leadership team and provide guidance on financial processes, timing, and corporate requirements
- Maintain and update spending in Marketing´s MRM tool
- Assist creating and submitting Statements of Work (SOWs) and purchase requisitions (PRs)
- Work with the Accounts Payable to resolve payment issues.
Assist Marketing Finance with month-end and quarter-end accruals and close.
- Develop, track and report key business metrics to measure the group´s ability to meet targets and objectives
- Implement process, system and tool improvements
- Assist with processes benefiting the entire team, including HR activities, group calendaring, meeting logistics, etc.
- Excellent communication skills
Send resume to jeannie.fernandez@experis.com for immediate consideration
Jeannie Fernandez
Experis
408-369-4105
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