Groupon is seeking a Sr. Finance Manager to join our Marketing Finance team. This is a high impact role, partnering directly with senior executives to define and implement Groupon’s global marketing strategy, with a heavy emphasis on leveraging Big Data, complex ROI modeling, forecasting and scenario analyses to optimize spend efficiency and maximize the long term benefit of Marketing’s investments.

Description

• Key Marketing Finance partner to the Chief Marketing Officer, VP of Computational Marketing (SEM, Mobile, Display, Affiliates), and VPs of our primary North American business segments (Local, Goods, Travel, etc)
• Full oversight of the Global Marketing P&L, including day to day operations, monthly/quarterly/yearly planning cycles, month close variance analysis, regional forecasting and budget allocation, etc.
• Finance expert for both Computational and Offline (TV, PR, Sponsorships) Marketing channels. Partnering with senior leadership across global Marketing, Operations and Finance teams to align on strategy and maximize marketing’s ROI
• Responsible managing and leading our Chicago based marketing finance team – overseeing talent development, standardization of processes and overall task prioritization to ensure Marketing Finance is maximizing its value-add to the business
• Perform deep analysis on broad customer behavioral shifts, like the migration toward mobile devices and away from web. Evaluating financial implications and providing senior leadership with specific and actionable guidance
• Build a standardized valuation framework to measure the cost and benefit of each marketing action (i.e. cost of a customer unsubscribing to email, life time value of an incremental mobile app download, etc.)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• MBA preferred
• 10+ years of broad based Finance experience in a variety of senior roles, ideally in both large cap and high growth business
• Strong leadership, communication and relationship building skills, with the ability to interpret and summarize complex data to help achieve strategic and operational goals
• ‘Builder’ mentality – identifies problems quickly and is eager to build solutions from scratch, not just improve on others work
• Results oriented and able to roll-up the sleeves in order to accomplish necessary tasks
• Superior intellect and the executive presence to become a true business partner – someone who is capable of contributing to broader business conversations beyond their functional expertise
• Comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, start-up environment
• Must have strong business judgment and excellent project management skills
• High detail and process-oriented, data-driven with strong analytical abilities

Who We Are, How We Work
We provide a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.

Groupon is an Equal Opportunity Employer