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Senior Finance Analyst at The Marketing Store

The Marketing Store

| Chicago

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Overview

The Marketing Store, a HAVI company, is a privately held global Agency that innovates, optimizes and drives marketing promotions and supply chains of many of the best known brands in the world. When you work at The Marketing Store, you have a chance to make your mark – to be a part of work that drives value, brings a smile and keeps everyday life moving forward. Which means it’s not the size of our global footprint, but rather your personal fingerprint, that has the power to make a real difference for our customers… and to touch the lives of people both at home and around the world.

We are staffed by a senior team of classically trained marketing professionals. Having developed an insightful, strategic, brand-building process for creating advertising campaigns, we have adapted this same thinking to promotions, digital, direct, the Internet, CRM, loyalty, premiums and events. The result is unique solutions that cover the gamut of marketing channels. Our clients include McDonald’s, Nissan, Infiniti, T-Mobile and more!

This Senior Financial Analyst position will be responsible for financial planning, reporting & analysis for the global Happy Meal business as well as other product-based promotional programs. The position will be based in Chicago and will work with counterparts in the Americas, Europe & Asia. The position reports to the Happy Meal Finance Vice President (located in Chicago).

Responsibilities

Develop annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term plans in coordination with other Chicago based functions and Happy Meal leadership
Consolidation of global forecasts and monthly reporting packages
Analyze income statements and department expenses, conduct reviews with teams and report on financial performance to finance management as well as non-finance leadership
Assist with month end close process - prepare various monthly journal entries and ensures conformance to Company Policy and GAAP
Ensure the clarity of financial bookings across the regions of the world in which Happy Meal and other product-based promotional business is conducted
Partner with Global Finance and Client Finance teams to establish and implement best practices and improve processes
Prepare client analyses, including rate cards, pricing, P&Ls, staffing and fee reconciliations

Desired Skills & Experience

5+ years’ experience in finance and accounting
Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
CPA desired
Strong spreadsheet skills required
Experience with a marketing agency and/or a technology company would be a plus
Familiarity and comfort with ERP and BI systems desired
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills required
Comfort working with and ability to explain financial concepts to non-finance personnel
Proven ability to appropriately prioritize work, complete tasks within deadlines, work hands-on

Benefits

The Marketing Store provides comprehensive benefits offerings to all full-time employees starting on day one. Our benefits include options for medical and dental insurance, 401(k) plan with Company matching provision, profit sharing, flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, life insurance, health and wellness benefits (including discounts on products & services), employee assistance program, and disability insurance.

Thank you for your interest in The Marketing Store.

Please note that we will only contact candidates who are selected for an interview.

The Marketing Store is an equal opportunity employer.

We do not accept unsolicited calls, resumes or candidate referrals from recruiters and agencies.

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Technology we use

Engineering

- JavaLanguages
- JavascriptLanguages
- PythonLanguages
- RLanguages
- ScalaLanguages
- SqlLanguages
- D3JSLibraries
- jQueryLibraries
- jQuery UILibraries
- ReactLibraries
- ReduxLibraries
- AngularJSFrameworks
- Backbone.jsFrameworks
- Ember.jsFrameworks
- HadoopFrameworks
- Node.jsFrameworks
- SpringFrameworks
- CassandraDatabases
- DB2Databases
- HiveDatabases
- Microsoft SQL ServerDatabases
- MongoDBDatabases
- MySQLDatabases
- PostgreSQLDatabases
- RedisDatabases
- TeradataDatabases

Location

Our company is in the heart of the Loop, making for an easy commute. We are blocks away from the river and the lake surrounded by trendy hotspots.

An Insider's view of The Marketing Store

How would you describe the company’s work-life balance?

The Marketing Store offers employees an incredible work life balance. We all work hard to get the work done but our personal lives and passions outside of work are always supported. Employees are encouraged to have flexible work schedules, working remotely when needed and finding time to do what they love in and out of the office.

Alysha

Vice President, Communications

What's the biggest problem your team is solving?

We’re leveraging data to solve marketing challenges for clients to understand who their customers are, and to activate future games & promotions. By using data, we’re enabling our clients to make data driven decisions and create custom experiences that will resonate with their target audience.

Wendy

Senior Director, Analytics

What makes someone successful on your team?

Being solutions oriented is the secret to success at The Marketing Store. We’re lucky to work with some of the biggest brands on new digital initiatives – which means we are often navigating in the unknown and encountering new scenarios. Successful team members can access current road blocks and determine how they can help solve the problem.

Leigh Anne

Director, Product Management

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

Analytics is at the core of what we strive to achieve at TMS – measurable impact to our client’s business. The decision science team is responsible for enabling the descriptive and prescriptive marketing analytics that drive strategic recommendations and shape the programs that we execute across the agency.

Tom

Manager, Decision Sciences

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

I let creatives do what they came here to do by empowering them to think and have a point of view. Make them trust me because I commit to their development and follow through. I challenge their thinking and executions, so they can think strategically. Respect them as humans and provide them with an environment where they have fun and can grow.

Diana

Vice President, Creative Director

What are The Marketing Store Perks + Benefits

The Marketing Store Benefits Overview

TMS is incredibly flexible. We have summer hours from early May through late September. Outside of that, we have a work from home policy where we encourage employees to have a good work/life balance. Our benefits are effective the first day of hire-there’s no sort of waiting period! All of our medical plans are all PPO’s while still offering a wide variety of high deductibles and lower deductible plans. There are two dental plans that employee can pick from along with a vision plan. We have unique benefits such as pet insurance, organ donor leave, an extended parental leave, an adoptive leave policy, legal insurance, auto & home insurance, etc. Life insurance and AD&D is covered at not once the employee’s annual salary, but twice! We have tuition reimbursement to assist employees with going back to school and continuing to develop themselves. We also offer a student loan repayment plan to help employees with financial support to help reduce their loans. There’s an onsite gym that is free for employees with a full service locker that employees can take advantage off. There’s a wellness program that employees can partake in that is based off a point system where employees can turn those points into dollars and receive lots of cool, free gifts such as Amazon gift cards, apple watches, etc. A company perk program is offered where employees can sign up and get discounts off certain retail stores, flights, hotels, etc. A Referral bonus plan is offered to employees who refer employees to join the company. There’s an annual bonus and salary increase that dependent on company’s financials and employee performance. There are several gyms that we partner with to give a gym discount. There’s a traditional 401(k) plan that we offer with a match, but we also generously offer profit sharing an annual basis. We listen to our employees and align our benefit offerings to what they say they want!

Culture

Volunteer in local community

Big Brothers Big Sisters, Social Works, Greater Food Depository

Partners with Nonprofits

Big Brothers Big Sisters, Social Works, Greater Food Depository

Friends outside of work

Eat lunch together

Intracompany committees

Our Get Closer committee plans our parties and social events

Daily stand up

Open door policy

Team owned deliverables

Team based strategic planning

Group brainstorming sessions

Open office floor plan

Diversity

Unconscious bias training

Diversity manifesto

Someone's primary function is managing the company's diversity and inclusion initiatives

Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Employees can contribute up to $2750 annually to their FSA.

Disability Insurance

For both AD&D and life insuance, the company covers up to twice your annual salary without any cost to the employee. Employees are also able to buy up this insurance amount if they decide to.

Dental Benefits

Our dental plan covers $2000 of expenses. Prevenative care is covered at 100% and employees have 2 different dental plans to pick from depending on their dental needs.

Health Insurance Benefits

There are 3 different PPO medical plans that employees can pick from. If an employee elects a health savings account (HSA) then the company adds in $500 for the employee only plan and $1,000 for fams.

Life Insurance

Life insurance is equal to 2 times an employee's annual salary.

Pet Insurance

Our pet insurance policy covers up to 100% of out of pocket expenses.

Wellness Programs

Onsite Gym

Retirement & Stock Options Benefits

401(K)

401(K) Matching

The company matches 100% of the first 3% you contribute, and then 50% of the next 2%. The employee has to contribute 5% to get the full match benefit of 4%.

Performance Bonus

Dependent on the company's financials, the employees are eligible for an annual bonus.

Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits

Child Care Benefits

TMS provides a FSA dependent care account. Employees can contribute to this to pay for their childcare for the year for up to $5,000 a year pre-tax.

Generous Parental Leave

Flexible Work Schedule

TMS provides employees with a flexible work schedule that includes Summer hours, Core hours, Compressed week, Flexible start and end times.

Remote Work Program

Family Medical Leave

Adoption Assistance

Employees get up to 14 weeks of paid leave for adoption.

Return-to-work program post parental leave

Vacation & Time Off Benefits

Generous PTO

Employees receive between 15 and 20 days per year of paid time off based on years of service.

Paid Volunteer Time

Our employees receive 8 hours per year of paid volunteer time.

Paid Holidays

Paid Sick Days

Employees receive unlimited hours per year of paid sick leave.

Perks & Discounts

Beer on Tap

Casual Dress

Commuter Benefits

Company Outings

The Marketing Store hosts company outings Quarterly.

Game Room

Our game room includes Ping Pong, Foosball, Pinball and Pop a Shot

Stocked Kitchen

digital coke machines, kombucha, cold brew and beer on draft. chips, oatmeal, fruit, vegetables, power bars, candy, popcorn, and string cheese

Happy Hours

Happy hours are hosted Once per month.

Parking

Recreational Clubs

volleyball club

Relocation Assistance

Fitness Subsidies

We offer discounts for several different gyms at $25 a month. There is a onsite gym in the office along with a full locker room. All employees can join this gym for free-even temporary employees!

Professional Development Benefits

Job Training & Conferences

The Marketing Store offers employees professional development opportunities like The ability to attend job related conferences and seminars.

Tuition Reimbursement

Diversity Program

Lunch and learns

The Tech team and People team hold monthly lunch and learns

Cross functional training encouraged

Promote from within

Continuing Education stipend

We offer $10,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.

Time allotted for learning