Careers at the Planet group

Budget Analyst

Culver City, CA 90232

Posted: 06/23/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Accounting & Finance Job Number: 635817 Is job remote?: No

Job Description


Budget Analyst
Contract: 12 Months
Pay: $61.79
Hybrid in Culver City, CA

Must Haves:
  • Bachelors Degree in Finance or Accounting
  • 5-7 years relevant experience in Finance, Accounting, or Budgeting
  • Solid understanding of Finance and Accounting concepts such as accruals, P&Ls, forecasting, fiscal planning
  • Superior analytical skills and the ability to form key, succinct insights and recommendations from comprehensive analyses involving large amounts of data
  • Ability to audit and reconcile large data sets in Excel from multiple data sources
  • Proven experience with business partnering and influencing cross-functional teams
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to solve problems independently in a highly matrixed organization
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly and concisely communicate information, policies, and deadlines to cross-functional stakeholders at varying levels
  • Ability to adapt to new tools and comprehend how data intersects within tools
  • Works independently with minimal supervision and takes the initiative to drive for results
  • Extensive Excel experience is a must
  • Flexibility with work schedule to virtually meet with partners in APAC and EMEA
  • Experience with working in a business, creative organizations, and/or marketing
Job Responsibilities:
  • Own the budgets and relationships for Functions and drive our processes
  • Drive meetings with Functional teams
  • Forecast, manage, and report on budgets and actual spend for our cross-functional teams across multiple lines of business
  • Analyze large sets of data to understand P&L actuals each quarter, understand where we under or over spend against projects, and present variance explanations, key insights and recommendations
  • Meticulously audit and reconcile large data sets and identify issues to be addressed
  • Coordinate with multiple stakeholders to troubleshoot issues around budgets, invoicing, POs, etc
  • Implement process improvements impacting multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and needs
  • Document and train on processes for internal and partner teams
  • Work with minimal supervision to drive results and make decisions independently
  • Reconcile and track invoices against forecasted spend and PO balances
  • Ad hoc analysis, tasks, and projects as needed
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