Marketing Services Analyst

Position closes on Thursday, 31 December 2009

Location: Beverly, MA
Company: Orchard Brands
Reports To: VP of Marketing Services

Position Summary:
Responsible to contribute to the accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency of the marketing services team by performing a variety of tasks to support the flow of financial information, the production of financial reports and various analysis across all companies, following established policies and procedures.

Essential Responsibilities:
·    Tracking of marketing services costs (print, paper, postage, etc.) across all businesses .
·    Work closely with marketing services coordinators and entire team to provide cost impacts of marketing changes, and to identify
     cost spending trends
·    Update forecasts as appropriate across all companies.
·    Develop new processes, including reporting tools for tracking marketing services costs by project with supporting detail on a
     year to date and forecast basis.
·    Serve as the key financial analyst in support of the budgeting and forecasting for group-wide marketing services costs and
     consolidation and integration expense.
·    Ongoing marketing services expense analysis and analytical support.  
·    Consolidation & integration expense forecasting, budgeting and actual reporting.  
·    Assist business units and key project managers in evaluating ROI’s on proposed marketing services expenditures.
·    Preparation of various analytical reports
·    Design and generate financial and analytical reports.
·    Prepare monthly forecasts and help analyze variances.
·    Provide analytical support to all areas of the department.
·    Assist in developing new analytical tools to measure department profitability.
·    Analyze and present recommendations on various special projects.
·    Preparation of various presentations utilizing financial data for executive meetings, business unit meetings, etc.
·    Serve as key financial & analytical liaison for any Orchard Brands Marketing Services related due diligence responsibility
    (mergers and acquisition activity, pro forma modeling, cost savings development and tracking).
·    Develop templates and gather data to provide analysis and support for tracking of key benchmarks across the group
     of  businesses.
·    Work with business unit personnel on operating assumptions and prepare supporting schedules validating these assumptions

Essential Requirements:
·    Bachelors degree in accounting or finance; MBA preferred.
·    Minimum of 5 – 7 years of business experience, preferably in the planning and analysis field.
·    Strong understanding of financial statements and overall budgeting.
·    Proven efficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint).
·    Strong working knowledge of balance sheets and cash flow statements.
·    Exposure to multi-brand, multi-unit corporate finance.
·    Ability to communicate clearly and work positively with others to reach a common goal.
·    Demonstrated ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize workloads with a high degree of accuracy and minimal supervision
     in a fast paced environment.
·    Ability to interpret data and provide relevant conclusions and recommendations.
·    Excellent organizational skills.
·    Experience in a direct marketer and retail environment a plus.
·    Experience with marketing services (printing, paper, postage) a plus.
·    Self-starter with a take charge attitude.

Orchard Brands offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and an excellent benefits package including Health/Dental insurance, Life, Long Term and short Term disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, 401K match, EAP, and employee discount.  For consideration, please submit your resume, along with a cover letter and salary requirements to jobs@orchardbrands.com, fax to 800-673-8401.  Orchard Brands is an equal opportunity employer.