Marketing Operations, Financial & Budgeting Advisor - Hybrid

Connecticut, USA (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $166K/yrMid Level5+ years expOther

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own marketing budget governance across enterprise and COE with finance-backed forecasting, pacing reviews, and reporting to keep spend aligned all year.

  • Coordinate quarterly projections, pacing discussions, and risk/opportunity reviews with Marketing leadership and Finance.
  • Support onboarding of a new MarTech budget-tracking platform and drive process improvements in enterprise financial management.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the Financial Operations lead in managing the Enterprise Marketing budget process
  • Partner with the Business Marketing / COE budget leads on a month basis to review pacing, reconcile actual spends, reforecast future months, discuss risks/opportunities and ensure budgets are being managed and tracked appropriately through the year.
  • Support the Financial Operations lead in creating quarterly projections.
  • Partner with finance to aggregate budget pacing reports for quarterly meetings with our Marketing leadership teams.
  • Support the onboarding of a new MarTech automation platform for budget tracking and forecasting for our organization.
  • Identify process improvements within the Enterprise financial management process.
  • Support our Strategy and Planning Operations lead with annual Marketing plans where financial support and budgeting is required.
  • Support Marketing Operations team in ad hoc special projects that require financial management support.

Requirements

  • 5- years of experience in a marketing operations / financial advisor environment
  • Strong financial and operations background with an understanding of financial planning and management, budgeting and forecasting within a Marketing organization.
  • Detail oriented, with excellent organizational skills
  • Ability to work with efficiency, speed and accuracy while remaining dedicated to being results oriented.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite, especially in PowerPoint and Excel (Pivot Tables)
  • Ability to foster collaboration, value others’ perspectives and gain support throughout the organization
  • Self-starter with an ability to lead, influence and/or indirectly manage up or down as necessary
  • Goal-oriented and personally accountable; resourceful and self-directed
  • Ability to work from a Cigna Group office 3 days a week, as directed by the business

Preferred

Benefits

  • medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs
  • 401(k)
  • company paid life insurance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year
  • paid holidays
  • leaves of absence
  • For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here
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The Cigna Group

The Cigna Group is a global health company committed to creating a better future built on the vitality of every individual and every community. We relentlessly challenge ourselves to partner and innovate solutions for better health. The Cigna Group includes products and services marketed under Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services or its subsidiaries. The Cigna Group maintains sales capabilities in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has more than 190 million customer relationships around the world.

Founded in 1981
Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA
22K employees (142 in marketing)