Job description
Primary role purpose:
Support the Finance Manager to provide a comprehensive, responsive, commercially focused, high quality, and financial management function both directly and by drawing on the shared services provided elsewhere within the Finance organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing month-end activities and co-operating with Financial Operations to ensure accuracy in the month-end reporting.
- Checking accuracy of headcount from HR reports and requesting updates.
- Monthly review of headcount forecast with HR.
- Analysis of month-end opex results, explaining variances and identifying and requesting corrections. Conduct reviews with cost centre managers and help with forecasting.
- Assist Marcomms in the management of commitments.
- Ownership of day-to-day queries relating to payments, expenses, etc.
- Assist with budget preparation of non-staff opex costs.
- Raising purchase orders for product managers and managing internal relationships to ensure vendor invoices are accurate and can be paid.
- Dealer commissions reporting as requested and providing support to the Billing team on commission structures and any other areas.
- Calculations of monthly Fleet Network Manager commissions, raising PO and co-ordinating payments/offsets with Fin Ops and Credit Control. Communication to the customer with regards to updates.
- Input of budget into Adaptive and update of monthly forecasts.
- Requisition of new codes (material, project codes profit centres) as required, assisting Fin Ops with queries on set up.
- Assist Capex team with queries.
- Calculation and preparation of quarterly Sales Incentive Scheme payments to account managers.
- Ad-hoc project work eg M365.
- Ad-hoc queries/requests.
Qualifications
Essential Knowledge and Skills:
- The successful candidate will be studying for an accountancy qualification with some experience in accounting, and analysis within a corporate environment.
- Creative problem solver and decision maker.
- Ability to draw high quality analysis out of the results that drive decisions in the business unit.
- Strong people skills, confident and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an intellectual and multinational environment at all levels. Strong verbal and written communications skills.
- Strong work ethic and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with passion for excellence and innovation.
- Proactive individual with the ability to effectively manage various projects while adhering to deadlines.
- Have a good appreciation of core best practice financial accounting standards, policies, processes and systems.
- Ability to work across cultures and time zones.
Additional Information
You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.
Inmarsat Values:
Our values define Inmarsat’s culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to certain behaviours which support our corporate values, they create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.
- Customer – Providing a unique value to our customers
- Accountability – taking ownership, getting results and keeping our promises
- Respect – collaborating, embracing diversity and valuing differences
- Excellence – creating bold solutions for our customers and putting quality at the heart of everything we do