Marketing Budget

Job Title: Marketing Budget & Reconciliation Specialist

Department: Marketing

Location: Remote (East Coast preferred for time zone alignment)

Duration: 6 + Months

Weekly Hours: Estimated 15 hours/week, with potential to increase to 20 hours during peak periods

Hourly Rate: $50.00 USD

About Centric Software:

Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.

From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility.

Job Summary:

Centric Software is rolling out a new budgeting and planning process to support a global marketing organization spanning Americas, EMEA, APAC, and corporate teams. With discretionary budgets exceeding $13M annually and growing complexity across verticals, we are seeking a part-time specialist to bridge financial workflows, marketing operations, and system integrations.

This freelance role will support the transition from manual Excel-based tracking to a more automated planning tool integrated with Coupa (PO/invoicing), CRM, and ERP systems. The ideal candidate will bring accounting rigor, marketing fluency, and cross-cultural collaboration skills to ensure accurate reconciliation, stakeholder alignment, and smooth adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the operational liaison between marketing, finance, and the implementation partner during tool rollout
• Track project milestones, decisions, and follow-ups across global stakeholders
• Reconcile invoices, accruals, and prepaids—especially across languages and currencies (e.g., French invoices for EMEA events)
• Validate budget vs. actual reporting across planning tools and financial systems
• Translate marketing activity (e.g., 20+ events per quarter) into campaign-level budget dimensions
• Document interim manual processes and support future automation efforts
• Provide guidance and support to marketing teams across regions to ensure adoption and accuracy
• Use tools like Google Translate or AI to interpret non-English documentation and ensure correct financial attribution

Qualifications & Requirements

• Strong understanding of accounting principles: accruals, prepaids, expense recognition
• Experience reconciling multi-language invoices and working with global teams
• Familiarity with marketing operations: events, advertising, design, merchandise, etc.
• Skilled in project coordination and financial documentation
• Comfortable working environments with partial automation and manual checks
• Experience supporting software implementations in finance or marketing contexts
• Analytical mindset with ability to spot discrepancies and ensure data integrity
• Effective communicator across technical, financial, and marketing stakeholders
• Self-directed, reliable, and able to manage part-time freelance workload independently

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.