Marketing Operations, Financial & Budgeting Advisor - Hybrid

Cigna Healthcare•St. Louis, MO

1d•$99,800 - $166,300•Hybrid

About The Position

The Marketing Operations Center of Excellence (COE) is looking for an Operations Advisor to provide financial management support to our Marketing organization. This individual will report directly to the Financial Operations Senior Manager and will help with managing our financial operations process. This individual will be critical in supporting our Marketing teams across each of our business areas including Evernorth Business Marketing, US Employer Business Marketing, and our COEs on their monthly financial reconciliations, quarterly forecast projections and annual planning criteria.

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

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.