Manager, Global Conference Financial Strategy & Operations

Overview

In this role you will oversee the monthly financial forecast for global conference operations, ensuring healthy P&L margins while guiding the team. You will implement budgeting processes, create templates, and coordinate across functions to support 120+ peers. You’ll develop projection tools and analyze metrics to grow the conference portfolio, presenting clear, actionable insights. This is a fast-paced, collaborative environment at Gartner, with a chance to shape budgeting standards globally.

Pay / Benefits

• world-class benefits
• highly competitive compensation
• hybrid work environment
• growth opportunities
• disproportionate rewards for top performers

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly financial forecast and assess P&L to maintain global margins and optimize conference financials
• Implement budget processes and templates for the global team, including annual budget creation, regular reporting, and year-end closing
• Define strategic budget priorities, set actions and timelines, coordinate internal meetings, and act as a point of contact for conference managers and planners
• Create projection tools and analyze key conference metrics to support portfolio growth
• Present accurate, consistent, and actionable analyses and reports
• Manage training sessions and manuals to implement globally streamlined budgeting across multi-functional teams (~120 peers)
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Procurement, Marketing, Sales, and Research
• Travel onsite approximately 10% to conferences

Key requirements

• 4+ years of conference or event management experience, ideally large-scale production
• Proven budgeting and financial controls skills
• Project management experience
• Advanced Excel skills, comfortable with complex spreadsheets

• process-driven
• analytical
• multi-tasking
• attention to detail
• Advanced Excel (pivot tables, data sorting, formulas)
• data analysis

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