Marketing Finance Specialist - Paid Media

The Paid Media Marketing Finance Specialist at Autodesk will manage financial processes, systems, and cross-functional projects for the Paid Media team. Key responsibilities include quarterly budget reconciliation, supporting accruals, and cost center management. The role also involves leading global initiatives to streamline workflows, improve systems, and implement scalable processes across paid media operations, ensuring operational excellence and achievement of strategic and financial objectives globally.

Must Have

• Oversee financial processes for quality and accuracy.
• Support paid media managers with quarterly accruals.
• Perform quarterly budget reconciliation.
• Streamline and improve systems and processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on global projects.
• Define system requirements for paid media technology.
• Review processes, determine success metrics, analyze results, and take action.
• Apply tools and methodologies for process changes.
• Design, develop, execute, and enable operational processes.
• 5+ years experience in marketing or finance operations, supporting digital/paid media.
• Understanding of accruals, PO processes, and cost center management.
• Experience managing projects and workflows across global teams.

Position Overview

The Paid Media Marketing Finance Specialist will oversee financial processes, systems, and cross-functional projects that enable the Paid Media team to deliver with accuracy and efficiency.

This role is responsible for quarterly budget reconciliation, supporting accruals, and ensuring smooth cost center management. Beyond finance, the Paid Media Marketing Finance Specialist will lead global initiatives to streamline workflows, improve systems, and implement scalable processes across paid media operations.

Key responsibilities include defining requirements, coordinating with internal and external partners, and applying data-driven methodologies to measure success and optimize performance.

Ultimately, this role ensures operational excellence, enabling the Paid Media team to achieve its strategic and financial objectives at a global scale.

Responsibilities

Finance Management

• Oversee the financial processes within the team to ensure the quality delivery and accuracy of our processes
• Help support paid media managers with the accruals process on a quarterly basis
• In charge of quarterly budget reconciliation between submissions and transfer to paid media cost centre

Operation management

• Work with key stakeholders and initiate action to effectively streamline and improve systems and processes that support the objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve the objectives of a variety of global projects
• Contribute to the definition of system requirements and work with internal groups and external vendors on the delivery of technology for paid media operations
• Review current processes, determine success metrics, analyse results, and take action
• Apply appropriate tools and methodologies to implement process changes
• Design, develop, execute, enablement for larger operational processes within paid media team

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in marketing operations, finance operations, or a related field, ideally supporting digital or paid media teams
• Understanding of accruals, PO processes, and cost center management in a large matrixed organization
• Experience managing projects and workflows across global marketing or media teams
• Highly analytical, organized, and proactive; thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment