Assistant Marketing Manager
Central, Hong Kong Island, HK
We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Assistant Marketing Manager.
In this role you will:
- Collaborate with local and global stakeholders to support financial and business planning cycles for the marketing department
- Project landing expectations, monitor variances against forecasts and provide insightful commentaries on marketing cost line movements
- Manage monthly forecasts and expenditures within allocated marketing budgets across all cost lines and business units within and beyond the marketing department
- Prepare monthly calculations and submissions of accruals in partnership with campaign champions and Finance
- Support monthly matching of purchase orders with manual accrual offset balance to ensure numbers land as expected without errors or discrepancies
- Perform monthly reconciliations of expenditures via internal certification system “Cadency” against Fusion records
- Liaise with financial operations team or other counterparts to extract relevant financial information and analyses as needed
- Facilitate thematic audit exercises to ensure governance and controls are in place to manage budgets effectively and accurately
- Coordinate approvals across teams as part of the governance for marketing budget usage
- Submit adjustment journals to ensure costs are booked into the appropriate cost lines
- Monitor marketing spends to ensure all marketing activities and events are implemented within agreed budgets
- Review procedures and arrange refreshers to teams on financial concepts relating to the booking of accruals and invoices, etc.
- Identify initiatives to improve efficiencies around cost and processes as well as overall marketing effectiveness, with actionable recommendations
- Assist in other support areas such as agency contracts / engagements, marketing risk governance, other planning deliverables / consolidation, etc.
To be successful you will need:
- Degree level of qualification in accounting preferred
- Minimum 8 years of experience in finance / audit area
- Experience in banking industry preferred
- Possess solid understanding of budgeting and accrual concepts, rolling monthly cycles, etc., with relevant experience preferably in marketing-specific context
- Ability to engage with all levels across functions effectively and efficiently with a strong, collaborative mindset
- Responsible with an eagerness to learn and a can-do attitude
- Quick learner, numbers savvy, highly organised and detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in both spoken and written English
Opening up a world of opportunity
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