Budget Analyst

Entertainment Partners Inc; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Innovation Inc in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Budget Analyst with leadership experience to help drive financial planning and decision-making. The role focuses on improving processes, delivering reliable budgets, and partnering with a freelance-style team to maintain Momentum in a fast-paced studio environment.

We value ownership, accountability, and continuous learning, with a commitment to mentoring and professional growth as the team scales.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in a general role.
• Collaborative, shares credit and takes responsibility.
• Familiarity with a small freelance team environment.
• Willingness to take ownership and assume new responsibilities.
• Ability to solve problems within own scope.

Responsibilities

• Trade quick wins for team trust and fix issues when math favors patience.
• Maintain operations in California while rebuilding parts of the process.
• Pursue ongoing training and self-directed learning to stay current.
• Collaborate across teams that rarely sit in the same room.
• Meet deadlines while upholding Retail Innovation Inc quality standards.
• Protect the customer experience through every Empathy change.
• Make general tradeoffs visible so Retail Innovation Inc can weigh them.

Skills

Leadership

Job description

Our Long Beach, CA office has an immediate opening for a Budget Analyst with strong Leadership experience. This general role at Retail Innovation Inc turns 5 years into $86,000 - $126,000 and turns $86,000 - $126,000 into a stake in what comes next.

Key Responsibilities

• Trade quick wins for trust-the-team fixes when the math favors patience
• Keep the CA engine running while you rebuild parts of it
• Keep skills current through ongoing training and self-directed learning
• Partner sideways with teams who rarely sit in the same room
• Meet established deadlines while upholding Retail Innovation Inc quality standards
• Guard the Retail Innovation Inc customer experience through every Empathy change
• Make general tradeoffs visible so Retail Innovation Inc can weigh them

What You'll Bring

• Around 3+ years of hands-on experience in a general role
• A collaborator's reflex to share credit and absorb blame
• Familiarity with the rhythms of a small-but-mighty freelance team
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities
• The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve

Retail Innovation Inc is a detail-focused Long Beach, CA studio where Empathy gets treated with the seriousness most companies reserve for marketing. The unwritten rule in Long Beach is simple: leave the codebase kinder than you found it.

Combine $86,000 - $126,000 with growth, generous benefits, and a mentor, and you have the reason people stay at Retail Innovation Inc for years.

This minute, the Budget Analyst chair sits empty and the search is on.