Senior Group Marketing Controller (All Genders)

Key details

• Own the month-end close process for marketing cost lines across all markets
• Review and validate marketing accruals submitted by local finance teams
• Identify and resolve booking errors, misclassifications, or missing accruals
• Maintain clean actuals in the income statement for all marketing line items
• Work with SE Finance Controlling to improve and create transparency to the markets on marketing IC charges
• Consolidate and challenge market-level marketing budgets during planning cycles
• Lead marketing Guidance creation for Business Plan cycles
• Maintain the Group marketing budget with actuals vs. budget vs. forecast
• Flag material variances early and escalate to marketing stakeholders
• Work with Tech and local markets to improve and automate input quality of weekly reporting
• Produce monthly marketing performance reports covering spend vs. budget, phasing, and key variance drivers (Leverage A.I. and Databricks Dashboards)
• Support the CFO/board reporting pack with accurate marketing cost commentary
• Build and maintain performance reports for Global Marketing teams
• Act as the day-to-day finance contact for the Global Marketing teams
• Manage Direct and Indirect spend for the Marketing team
• Document and improve the end-to-end marketing close process
• Ensure consistent cost treatment across markets (e.g. working vs. non-working spend, agency fees, media)
• Identify gaps in how marketing costs are captured and propose fixes
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