Boston Consulting Group Looking for Global Services Finance Director Marketing & Communications at Boston, MA, United States Full Time

Job Description

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Finance Director Marketing & Communications serves as the senior finance business partner to the Marketing and Communications team. This role will partner closely with leaders in the Marketing & Communications leadership team (MLT) to provide financial decision support, reporting and analysis to the various pillars of our Marketing & Communications function (Content, Branding & Design, Positioning & Communications, Digital, Alumni, and Digital Products Agile Tribe). In addition, the Director will also play a key role in advising on all financial aspects of the currently ongoing major transformation efforts which are fundamental to achieving the vision of our Marketing & Communications function. The role will actively engage with Leadership to provide finance-related acumen with respect to development of target operating models, investments decisions, and other firm initiatives as we build truly global platforms supporting our Marketing teams in the markets.
The role will be a senior thought partner to the Marketing & Communications team in developing their strategic, operational and change agendas, aligning stakeholders around finance implications of major initiatives, including transformation of our Marketing & Communications function, supporting several large “moonshot” campaigns, and other major strategic initiatives. Key stakeholders will include four Managing Directors and Partners: The Chief Marketing Officer, the Positioning & Communications Chair, the Chief Communications Officer; and the Head of Marketing Operations. In addition, this role will navigate across a multitude of Marketing & Communications stakeholders and liaise on priorities in BCG’s local, regional, and global markets.
This position will also oversee development of annual & multi-year worldwide functional budgets, reporting and analysis to provide effective decision support. Inherent in the role will be to identify areas to streamline, support the realization of benefits from (technology) investments and identify opportunities for efficiency and continuous improvement of finance processes through innovative ways to evolve reporting and analysis utilizing new digital tools and capabilities.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Critical thinking and technical expertise – using rigorous logic and methods to solve complex financial problems based on objective and accurate financial analysis, combined with strong business judgment and value-based decision making: “A trusted advisor”
• Strong ability to challenge the status quo, identify improvement areas in the function and enable the achievement of approved business cases (incl. those enabled by technology investments)
• Working jointly with cross-functional teams and finance colleagues in the field to identity innovative opportunities for business process improvements and streamlining in existing activities, making recommendations on improvements and leading implementation
• Being transparent, purpose-driven, and outcome-oriented – creating focus, moving roadblocks, tackling difficult problems, and remaining action-oriented
• Working closely with business stakeholders on measuring ROMI across both firm-wide and local Marketing investments
• Understanding the management and financial reporting implications for new and existing accounting policies (including intercompany pricing, cost sharing, etc, and taking ownership for coordinating global implementation of new policies impacting the functions
• Working collaboratively across groups – establishing strong relationships (with senior functional leaders and Managing Directors & Partners, across Functional Finance, and other functions such as Finance, People/HR, etc.), demonstrating the ability to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network, using diplomacy and tact to gain cooperation and support from others
• Excellent people management skills, ability to lead a team and communication maturity to navigate across culturally diverse regions

YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)

• A minimum of 10-15 years of finance-related experience, Bachelor’s degree, CPA or MBA strongly preferred
• Working knowledge of Marketing elements, terms and processes related to marketing campaigns, web/ mobile production, and digital platforms
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global environment with people at all organizational levels
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral; Advanced computer literacy (PowerPoint and Excel)
• Experience in financial analysis and working with data inputs from multiple sources
• Experience with interpreting models using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, or other tools (Tableau)

YOU’LL WORK WITH

In addition to key stakeholders in the Marketing & Communications function, you will be part of and work with the Functional Finance Team, which is an integral part of the worldwide Finance organization providing insight supported by meaningful and accurate financial information to help guide the decision-making process, and providing truly strategic business partnering to the Functions. The team partners with the leadership of our Global Functions, the Finance Leadership team, and local, regional & global finance colleagues across the organization. As a key member of the Functional Finance Team, this role will interact closely with both the senior leadership of the Marketing & Communications function (Managing Directors & Partners, Senior Directors, Directors, & other key stakeholders), and the leadership team of several other core functions taking an active role in discussions at the senior leadership levels.