Company:
Marsh
Description:
Senior Business Management Coordinator
Join our team to support financial governance, operational management, and strategic decision-making across Network Accounting and Procurement functions. This role requires a strong accounting and financial professional who can work independently, provide valuable business insights, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across a global environment.
What You Will Be Responsible For
Strategic Financial Stewardship
- Drive budget governance by validating assumptions, reviewing business case inputs, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, and escalating significant risks and opportunities to leadership.
- Analyze budget versus actual results and forecast movements, providing root-cause analysis and recommending corrective actions.
- Support day-to-day business operations to ensure the timely delivery of projects and services.
- Assist with planning and execution of operational initiatives while escalating issues when necessary.
- Serve as a key point of contact for operational inquiries and coordinate with subject matter experts when required.
Financial Control & Analysis
- Monitor and reconcile budget versus actual spend across key cost categories.
- Partner with budget owners to provide detailed variance analysis by owner, project, and vendor.
- Identify trends, recurring cost drivers, and one-time expenses while tracking savings opportunities and financial performance against targets.
- Manage procure-to-pay activities, including PO creation, approvals, invoicing controls, and PO lifecycle management for consumption-based services.
- Apply strong accounting fundamentals, including knowledge of debits, credits, reconciliations, and financial controls.
Reporting & Decision Support
- Transform financial and operational data into concise executive-level reporting and recommendations.
- Prepare management reporting packages, forecast updates, quarterly reviews, and ad hoc executive presentations.
- Support leadership decision-making through meaningful financial analysis and business insights.
Operational & Vendor Management Support
- Act as a liaison with vendors regarding requests, quotations, orders, delivery schedules, and account reconciliations.
- Ensure vendor invoices align with purchase orders and contractual terms.
- Coordinate resolution of billing discrepancies, contract exceptions, and procurement-related matters with internal stakeholders.
What You Need to Have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
- Strong accounting background with solid understanding of debits, credits, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
- Experience with Budget, Forecast, and Variance Analysis.
- Experience supporting business and operational leaders through financial insights.
- Advanced Excel and financial analysis skills.
- Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work independently in a highly collaborative global environment.
What Will Make You Stand Out
- Experience supporting multinational or global organizations.
- Strong business partnering and stakeholder management skills.
- Procurement and vendor management experience.
- Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and drive operational efficiencies.
- Self-starter mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Why Join This Team
- Opportunity to work directly with a U.S.-based leadership team and support a highly visible function.
- Exposure to strategic financial planning, business operations, and executive decision-making.
- Collaborative and global environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Ability to make a meaningful impact by helping shape financial governance and operational excellence.
Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Marsh is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.