Marketing Manager Budget and Finance Specialist

TELUS • Vancouver, BC

12d • Remote

About The Position

Our team spends our days supporting the Marketing Communication team’s strategic decision making, budget allocation, and planning. We support the TELUS Consumer Solutions portfolio, including TELUS, Koodo and Public Mobile brands. In this exciting role, the Marketing Manager (Budget & Finance Specialist) will be responsible for managing our Advertising & Promotions (A&P) budgeting process across various brands and business units in our portfolio. The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of financial processes including budget tracking and management, accruals, Statement of Work (SOW) management and invoice management, and will be a highly organized, process-driven collaborator, with strong analytical acumen.

Requirements

• A degree in Business Administration and / or accounting accreditation
• Experience in proactively managing budgets, forecasting, adjusting & accruing
• Working knowledge of SAP and Fieldglass
• Work with visualization tools (Tableau and Domo)
• Knowledge of the Google suite of applications, notably Slides and Sheets
• Highly organized, process-oriented and strong analytical skills
• Action-oriented personality with strong business acumen and data-driven approach
• Expert knowledge of data and analytic techniques that incorporate well into storytelling

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of Marketing practices and A&P is considered an asset

Responsibilities

• Manage the A&P budget and maintenance of our Master Budget file throughout the year, including changes, cuts, reallocations, incremental spend and reclasses
• Own end-of-month and end-of-year process and deliverables, including accrual submission, reclasses and triage, working closely with our Finance team
• Manage SOW creation process in FieldGlass between our team, our primes and our agency partners
• Analyze budget trends and patterns as needed to assist with strategic decision making; support the Marketing Communications teams by providing budget views throughout the year for reporting purposes as needed (eg. Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), Campaign Reporting, YoY analysis, etc.)
• Bring various groups and primes together for budget change alignment as needed
• Support the Manager of Strategy & Planning, Marketing Communications Directors and fellow team members to set, forecast and share annual A&P budgets, updating as needed throughout the year
• Suggest and promote budget efficiencies in partnership with the team in order to better allocate funding to working media dollars
• Act as the point of contact for all budget and billing issues, working with our Finance, Fieldglass and SAP teams as needed; assist team members with budget processes and workflow steps as needed, sharing knowledge and expertise across the team
• Assist with agency and campaign scorecards

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level