Business Operations Specialist - Ursus, Inc.

JOB TITLE: Business Operations Specialist
LOCATION: 100% remote (PST perferred) 
DURATION: 6 month contract 
PAY RANGE: $30 - $34/hr

TOP 3 SKILLS:

• Experience partnering with Global Marketing and Finance teams to manage budget, inform investment strategy, and find new and improved ways for tracking, prioritizing, and measuring budget
• Experience with Oracle Cloud and/or Hyperion
• Experience partnering with Accounting and Finance teams and managing budgets

Company:
Our client, a cutting-edge fintech organization using blockchain technology to democratize the global economy is currently recruiting for a Business Operations Specialist to bring onto the team.

Duties:

• Our client is looking for a Business Operations Specialist to join the Global Marketing Strategy & Operations team. You will be a partner and a resource to the Global Marketing team, helping to maintain budgets, organize planning, and collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• You will communicate with partners on marketing operating expenses and their statuses, solicit feedback from partners to ensure continuous commitment to plans, and ensure understanding of our goals, risks, and opportunities with the budget.
• You are responsive and committed to improving operational efficiencies across the Global Marketing team.
• You are an expert with spreadsheets and comfortable communicating analysis and process to stakeholders who may be less fluent with budget operations. 

Qualifications

• Partner with our Global Marketing and Finance & Strategy teams to manage budget, inform investment strategy, and find new and improved ways for tracking, prioritizing, and measuring budget
• Reconcile spend data and reporting to ensure data integrity across the organization
• Manage billing transactions, vendor communications, and month end close in lock step with Accounting
• Support the marketing planning process, inclusive of monthly and quarterly budget transfers, variance analysis, and risk mitigation planning
• Manage all aspects of budget forecasting and planning infrastructure via third-party software tool
• Ensure communication of priorities, projects/programs, and results to leadership and the larger team
• Work with the Global Marketing team to define processes as we continue to scale globally
• Onboard key vendors and partners and facilitate relationship with Procurement on behalf of Marketing team
• Identify and define new opportunities, key initiatives, and operational gaps and take those on as strategic projects

Skills:

• Expertise with Google Sheets
• Experience with Oracle Cloud and/or Hyperion a plus
• Experience partnering with Accounting and Finance teams and managing budgets
• Desire to connect with dozens of cross-functional stakeholders spanning every level of the Marketing organization
• Positive and proactive attitude when taking on new projects
• Hunger to solve problems and scale operations through new and creative ways

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