Marketing Operations, Financial and Budgeting Advisor

Title: Marketing Operations, Financial & Budgeting Advisor - Hybrid

Location:

• Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States of America
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Job Description:

Hybrid

The Marketing Operations Center of Excellence (COE) is looking for an Operations Advisor to provide financial management support to our Marketing organization. This individual will report directly to the Financial Operations Senior Manager and will help with managing our financial operations process.  This individual will be critical in supporting our Marketing teams across each of our business areas including Evernorth Business Marketing, US Employer Business Marketing, and our COEs on their monthly financial reconciliations, quarterly forecast projections and annual planning criteria.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Financial Operations lead in managing the Enterprise Marketing budget process  
• Partner with the Business Marketing / COE budget leads on a month basis to review pacing, reconcile actual spends, reforecast future months, discuss risks/opportunities and ensure budgets are being managed and tracked appropriately through the year.
• Support the Financial Operations lead in creating quarterly projections.
• Partner with finance to aggregate budget pacing reports for quarterly meetings with our Marketing leadership teams.
• Support the onboarding of a new MarTech automation platform for budget tracking and forecasting for our organization.  
• Identify process improvements within the Enterprise financial management process.
• Support our Strategy and Planning Operations lead with annual Marketing plans where financial support and budgeting is required.
• Support Marketing Operations team in ad hoc special projects that require financial management support.

Core Qualifications/Competencies will ideally include the following:

• 5- years of experience in a marketing operations / financial advisor environment
• Strong financial and operations background with an understanding of financial planning and management, budgeting and forecasting within a Marketing organization.
• Detail oriented, with excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work with efficiency, speed and accuracy while remaining dedicated to being results oriented.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, especially in PowerPoint and Excel (Pivot Tables)
• Ability to foster collaboration, value others’ perspectives and gain support throughout the organization
• Self-starter with an ability to lead, influence and/or indirectly manage up or down as necessary
• Goal-oriented and personally accountable; resourceful and self-directed
• Ability to work from a Cigna Group office 3 days a week, as directed by the business

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 99,800 - 166,300 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email seeyourself@thecignagroup.com for assistance.  Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.