Associate Director, Marketing Financial Planning

• Budgeting & Forecasting: Partner closely with marketing teams for your assigned labels to build, manage, and adjust budgets aligned with each artist's go-to-market release strategy and commercial objectives; Manage the maintenance and update of marketing budgets in the company's proprietary marketing planning system, ensuring data accuracy and real-time responsiveness to campaign changes; Support monthly forecast cycles, incorporating new spend assumptions and campaign updates.
• Purchase Order Management & Budget Validation: Oversee the creation, submission, and approval of marketing-related purchase orders, ensuring alignment with approved budgets and internal controls; Validate purchase orders and committed spend against established artist campaign budgets to prevent overruns and maintain spending discipline; Track commitments at multiple levels: by artist, project, spend category, and release phase.
• Expense Tracking & Reconciliation: Review actual marketing expenditures against budgets and forecasts on a monthly and quarterly basis; Process accruals and ensure accurate invoice coding and approval routing; Liaise with Accounts Payable and label teams to resolve discrepancies and ensure timely vendor payments.
• Financial Reporting & Spend Visibility: Manage the preparation and distribution of recurring reports showing actual spend and available remaining budget by artist, project, and campaign phase; Provide clear, real-time visibility to label and executive stakeholders on how current investments are tracking against planned activity; Analyze marketing spend relative to forecasted revenue at both the artist/project level and in aggregate across the label to evaluate efficiency, support ROI assessments, and ensure adherence to the label's overall fiscal year marketing expense budget.
• Cross-Functional & Dual Reporting Collaboration: Serve as a key financial liaison to marketing, media, and promotion teams across multiple active artist campaigns for your assigned labels; Ensure effective communication and coordination between your direct and dotted-line reporting managers to align on workflow and ensure accurate and timely delivery of financial inputs and outputs.
• Compliance & Process Optimization: Ensure all marketing expenditures follow corporate finance policies, internal approval hierarchies, and SOX requirements, with documented controls and audit trails; Identify and implement improvements to budgeting, approval, and reporting processes; Support maintenance and enhancements related to the marketing planning and purchase order systems.
• Strategic Support & Special Projects: Support campaign post-mortem analyses, vendor benchmarking, and long-range marketing planning; Lead label-wide marketing expense analysis, fiscal year marketing budget planning, and spend scenario modeling across various release slates.

• You have a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field, and 6-8 years of relevant financial planning & analysis experience with supervisory responsibility; Entertainment, media, or marketing finance experience preferred; Familiarity with frontline label operations and music marketing campaign lifecycles is a plus.
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office Suite applications (particularly Excel) and eager to quickly learn proprietary company planning tools; Data visualization software experience (Tableau/PowerBI) a plus.
• You have a sold understanding of and experience with general ledger accounting software (SAP), budgeting and purchase order systems, and related expense reporting tools.
• You have excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with a wide range of individuals at all levels both inside and outside of the company in a professional manner.
• You are well-organized and detail-oriented with the ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks and adapt quickly to shifting priorities to meet deadlines on a timely basis.
• You are an enthusiastic, achievement-oriented self-starter who takes initiative in appropriate situations, with a can-do attitude and positive work ethic, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• You have the ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization and manage multiple stakeholders.
• You value collaboration, innovation, problem-solving, and teamwork.

• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to channel your passion every day
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork empowering you to bring your best
• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K + employer matching
• Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next
• Time off for a winter recess

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