Senior Budget Analyst

Job Title: Budget Analyst

Client Location: Hybrid; Culver City, CA

Starting: 03/25/2025

Salary/Pay Rate: $54 to $60 an hour

Firm, non-negotiable: No

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 6 months with potential to extend

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced Budget Analyst to join our Budget Management team. The ideal candidate is someone who is a highly motivated analytical thinker, with a passion for building relationships with cross-functional partners. If you thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced, evolving environments, where the business and processes are constantly changing, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• 5-7years relevant experience in Finance, Accounting, or Budgeting
• Solid understanding of Finance and Accounting concepts such as accruals, P&Ls, forecasting, fiscal planning
• Superior analytical skills and the ability to form key, succinct insights and recommendations from comprehensive analyses involving large amounts of data
• Ability to audit and reconcile large data sets in Excel from multiple data sources
• Proven experience with business partnering and influencing cross-functional teams
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to solve problems independently in a highly matrixed organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly and concisely communicate information, policies, and deadlines to cross-functional stakeholders at varying levels
• Ability to adapt to new tools and comprehend how data intersects within tools
• Works independently with minimal supervision and takes the initiative to drive for results
• Extensive Excel experience is a must
• Flexibility with work schedule to virtually meet with partners in APAC and EMEA
• Experience with working in a business, creative organizations, and/or marketing is preferred

Responsibilities

• Own the budgets and relationships for Functions and drive our processes
• Drive meetings with Functional teams
• Forecast, manage, and report on budgets and actual spend for our cross-functional teams across multiple lines of business
• Analyze large sets of data to understand P&L actuals each quarter, understand where we under or over spend against projects, and present variance explanations, key insights and recommendations
• Meticulously audit and reconcile large data sets and identify issues to be addressed
• Coordinate with multiple stakeholders to troubleshoot issues around budgets, invoicing, POs, etc
• Implement process improvements impacting multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and needs
• Document and train on processes for internal and partner teams
• Work with minimal supervision to drive results and make decisions independently
• Reconcile and track invoices against forecasted spend and PO balances
• Ad hoc analysis, tasks, and projects as needed

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Finance or Accounting

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $54 to $60 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

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Our eligible talent gets access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!

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