.We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers.Lenovo is a US$57 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world's largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services.Description and RequirementsThe IDG WW Marketing team is presently hiring a Director of Budgeting and Business Operations within the IDG Marketing Operations organization. This position will report to the Executive Director of Strategy and Operations for IDG Marketing.Lenovo is looking for an experienced Marketing Operations leader to enhance, centralize and operate the end-to-end financial planning and budgeting process. As we are currently transforming through automation many of our business processes, the role will also be responsible for driving technology solutions to enhance the efficiency of financial operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive operations experience, comprehensive knowledge of financial management principles, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.This role is responsible for supporting the management system to ensure marketing investments are aligned to strategic priorities and to ensure that we are optimizing the use of our financial resources.Key Responsibilities:Budget OperationsEnhance and execute a management system to ensure optimal utilization of IDG HQ budget that supports/ensures compliance to governance, alliance and accounting rules and processes.Work closely with executives in other functions (e.G. Finance, Procurement, Accounting, Alliances), and with the IDG HQ senior management team to ensure strategic goals of the business are supported through the distribution of marketing investments.Support annual planning process with focus on the distribution of financial resources and serve as the focal point for alignment with finance.Manage monthly financial forecasting.Support PO management process on Anaplan with compliance pre-checks through Shared Services Centre.Design and publish reports to provide visibility on financial operations, efficiency metrics, and governance and compliance status for marketers and executives.TransformationDesign and deploy a unified and automated budget framework for E2E budget process including various milestones of planning and execution to drive process efficiency and optimization as well as common process and centralized visibility