Conferences Manager, Financial and Future Planning, Dashboards & Reporting

Description

Responsible for management, analysis and reporting of Conference Production financial and future planning data, including expense templates, roll ups, growth projections, financial dashboard, and calendar dashboard. The successful candidate will also provide analysis and actionable reports to aid senior leadership decision making as well as future venue sourcing & capacity planning.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build, manage, and continuously improve all budget templates and associated roll ups, critical for managing expenses across the entire conferences business, including over 580 complex and cross-linked templates and 21 global rolls up, at any given time in excel and Power BI,  
• Project manage against budget timelines to ensure templates are replicated in line with key planning milestones tied to larger financial commitments, ensuring we are driving decisions to maximize conference contribution.
• Maintain and improve Conference Production Financial Dashboards and Global Conferences Calendar Dashboard in Power BI.  Data aggregation and cleaning, data modelling, Power BI visualization design, programming in DAX, and mapping to Smartsheet.
• Construct Financial Projections models to include Scenario Analysis and Growth Curve Analysis. Investigate current best practices for predictive data modelling, using Python or other programming language.
• Design and build from start to finish complex analytic models and tools to support global team, utilizing advanced modelling, Excel, and VBA skills.
• Support global team, building conference planning tools from scratch, including problem solving the most effective solutions and training team as required, enabling production team to efficiently analyze large amounts of data & make crucial event planning decisions.
• Partner with stakeholders and other team members to identify data analytics requirements. Identify and implement most effective and efficient solution.
• Proactively identify opportunities to automate processes. Use advanced VBA programming to automate manual Excel processes to realize significant time savings and reduction in errors.
• Quickly master any new software needed to build the models/tools required to take team to the next level.
• Ability to execute at the highest level in fast-paced environment with multiple and competing, high-impact priorities. Independently drive results from start to finish.
• Leverage quantitative background in business, finance, and technology.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience: 4+ years of progressive business experience, preferably in a strategy, consulting, or business operations role.
• Qualifications: Being extremely process driven with strong project management skills are essential.
• Exceptional problem-solving capability: You have a proven track record of solving complex problems, thinking creatively, and using data to tell a story and drive change.
• Technical skills: You are highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Smartsheet. You can create and interpret complex Excel and Smartsheet reports to track past, present, and future conference data and determine how to represent this in Power BI.
• Detail oriented: You have a critical eye for details and can effectively analyze and summarize data.
• Fast-paced: You operate with a sense of “urgency” and can excel in an execution-focused environment.
• Drive / Self-sufficiency: You have a demonstrated ability to own a problem and aggressively drive from problem statement to solution in a self-sufficient capacity, even in a matrixed environment.
• Communication skills: You are an excellent and structured verbal and written communicator with effective presentation and platform skills.
• Strong core values: You demonstrate integrity, collaboration, a no-limits mindset, objectivity, and consistent results using global best practices.
• Education: Bachelor's degree required

  Responsible for management, analysis and reporting of Conference Production financial and future planning data, including expense templates, roll ups, growth projections, financial dashboard, and calendar dashboard. The successful candidate will also provide analysis and actionable reports to aid senior leadership decision making as well as future venue sourcing & capacity planning.

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