Allison
is hiring
Business Analyst, Clients
About Our Company
We’re a global integrated marketing and communications consultancy dedicated to driving growth, innovation and positive change for clients, colleagues and communities. With a diverse range of expertise and a forward-looking mindset, we deliver game-changing results that make a lasting impact.
Job Description & Responsibilities
Allison is seeking a Client Business Analyst responsible for working collaboratively across client and financial teams to ensure accurate delivery of all marketing initiatives and projects. This role will include financial management and reporting, collecting/analyzing data and forecasts for financial analysis, maintaining documentation for tracking to help improve processes for client teams. These teams handle unique programs for our clients including paid media plans, social media, influencer activations, video and photo shoots. We have various project contracts that need distinct financial tracking to ensure we stay on budget and successfully bill our clients to our accounting standards.
The Client Business Analyst will be asked to work proactively and independently while using a variety of project management styles and tools including Excel. We are seeking a highly organized professional that enjoys working with numbers, data analysis, and process development. This role will be an integral part of the team and will require a unique blend of Microsoft 365 expertise, excellent communication skills, project management and financial experience.
Responsibilities
- Track the health of the department’s revenue; forecast revenue and track against financial goals
- Partner with client team leads to manage project budgets - billable hours and out of pocket expenses
- Coordinate with finance team to help manage and modify allocated budgets and to identify improvements to revenue recognition and management of hard costs
- Support client teams in completing needed financial documents such as contracts and internal accounting documents
- Become an expert in time tracking system – Maconomy
- Provide recommendations to support the operational teams in making optimum use of available resources to achieve targets and generate ad-hoc reports based on stakeholder requests
- Conduct post project analysis to understand where efficiencies can be gained
- Quickly respond to ad hoc reporting requests from department leadership and finance teams
- Develop financial processes that allow the marketing team to operate efficiently and effectively to achieve our teams’ strategic goals
- Help streamline the business by creating new processes to manage vendor contracts, make improvements to current project trackers and efficiently administer contractors and influencer payments.
Requirements
Qualifications
- A Client Business Analyst at Allison typically has a minimum of 5+ years of experience
- Strong competency with Excel
- Knowledge of integrated marketing to improve the agency’s forecasting process
- Experience in project management and financial data analysis with the ability to synthesize data and present metrics in a way that the management team can use to help drive decisions and/or key process improvements
- Desire to understand the business, offerings and work with leadership to improve operations
- Self-starter that continually seeks to improve processes
- Strong cross-team collaboration skills
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Strong ability to develop lasting interpersonal relationships, based in clear expectations and shared accountability to outcomes
- Highly entrepreneurial, comfortable taking ownership of complex projects in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment
What we offer
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with home and office schedule (2+ days in office per week) and work from anywhere weeks
- Comprehensive health benefits (healthcare, vision, dental, pet, home, and auto insurance)
- Generous time off policies (unlimited paid time off, wellness days, national holidays, summer Fridays)
- Four-week sabbatical every five years of employment
- Exceptional parental leave benefits
- Global mentorship and networking programs
- Monthly cell phone reimbursement
- 401k savings and employee stock purchase plan
- Volunteer hours (20 hours annually) for designated non-profit partner and personal choice
- Globally driven DEI initiatives (Employee Advocacy Groups, DEI committee)
- Career growth opportunities, such as Allison University (multi-day customized trainings for each level)
In order to comply with equal pay and salary transparency laws in various locations, we believe the target range of base compensation in all locations within the United States for this role is $60k-$70k . Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.
In addition to medical, dental and vision coverage, we offer a generous unlimited PTO plan, 401k program and comprehensive benefits plan. Additional perks and benefits include a month-long sabbatical, active employee advocacy groups, globally driven DEI initiatives, wellness days, summer Fridays and learning and development programs for our employees.
