Conference Manager, Conference Finance Strategy

Gartner; Egham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research and advisory firm in Egham is seeking a Manager for Global Conference Financial Strategy & Operations. The candidate will manage financial forecasts, implement budget processes, and collaborate across departments. Required qualifications include 4+ years of experience in event management and advanced Excel skills. The role offers competitive compensation in a hybrid work environment.

Benefits

World-class benefits

Highly competitive compensation

Flexible hybrid work environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years of conference or event management experience.
• Proven budgeting and financial controls skills.
• Comfortable in complex spreadsheets.

Responsibilities

• Management of monthly financial forecast and P&L.
• Implementation of budget processes and templates.
• Cross-functional collaboration with multiple business units.

Skills

Budgeting and financial controls

Project management

Advanced Excel skills

Communications and public relations

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Overview

Role Purpose:

The Manager for Global Conference Financial Strategy & Operations will support the Conference Production teams by managing the process and templates associated with monthly expense forecasting for over 50+ conferences. The associate will also evaluate trends of Gartner conferences in order to better plan for future events. A qualified candidate must be process driven, analytical, have the ability to multi-task and take pride in their work while being able to work in a fast-paced, self-directed, and collaborative environment.

What you will do

• Management of monthly financial forecast, assessing P&L to maintain global profit margins while guiding team on maximizing conference financials.
• Implementation of budget processes and templates for global team including annual budget creation, regular reporting and year-end closing of expense budget.
• Definition and guidance of strategic budget priorities, setting actions and timelines, coordinating internal meetings and acting as a point person for conference managers and planners.
• Creation of projection tools and analysis of key conference metrics to help grow and develop the conference portfolio.
• Presentation of accurate, consistent and actionable analysis and reports.
• Management of training sessions and creation of manuals to implement globally streamlined budgeting processes across multi-functional teams reaching over 120 peers.
• Cross-functional collaboration with multiple business units including Finance, Procurement, Marketing, Sales, and Research.
• Travel onsite approximately 10% to conferences, domestic and regional.

What you will need

• 4 plus years of conference or event management experience, ideally large-scale production.
• Proven budgeting and financial controls skills.
• Project management experience.
• Advanced Excel skills, comfortable in complex spreadsheets.
• Communications and public relations skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.

This position will provide conference budget planning and analysis support to Conference Operations team. Excel testing will be required. Must be adept at advanced excel, pivot tables, sorting data, formula generation and error correction of basic formulas. The person must be detail oriented, analytical, critical thinker, and have the ability to identify outliers in reporting. The ideal candidate would have a minimum of 4 years finance and/or conference experience. Attention to detail and ability to double check work prior to submitting is imperative as is excellent communication skills, both written and spoken.

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