Finance Manager

Viasat; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a finance professional to join their team. This role involves providing comprehensive financial reporting and management support, acting as a business partner to engineering teams, and leading the strategic and operational planning processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a professional accounting qualification, and the ability to engage collaboratively across all levels of the organization. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will drive impactful decisions and foster innovation.

Qualifications

• Graduate with professional accounting qualification or equivalent.
• Progressive experience in finance and business partnering.

Responsibilities

• Act as finance business partner to Engineering teams providing financial support.
• Lead the Op Plan and Strat Plan Process for the functions supported.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Financial Management

Business Partnering

Communication Skills

Strategic Planning

Education

Professional Accounting Qualification

Graduate Degree

Job description

About us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What you'll do

Provide the Director Finance, with a comprehensive financial reporting and financial management capability; both directly, and by drawing on the shared services provided elsewhere within the Finance organisation.

Work closely with Finance and Engineering leadership teams, to build and deliver the Strategic Plan and Operating Plan that is in line with the overall Corporate strategy and direction.

The day-to-day

The day-to-day

1. Business Partnering - Act as finance business partner to the Engineering teams providing financial support and commercial guidance.

• Ensure that stakeholders and senior management are provided with timely, high quality financial analysis to aid decision making.
• Provide value adding financial insight, support and challenge by building effective working relationships at all levels, including senior managers and with other departments in the business.
• Working closely with Cost Centre Managers and VPs to efficiently and effectively manage expenditure. This includes, working closely with Procurement to identify efficiencies, monitoring and reporting on expenditure to ensure forecasts are up to date and balanced, with risks and opportunities documented
• Be proactively involved in preparation of investment cases, taking a lead or support role as necessary but always ensuring that a concise high quality business case is prepared in support of all major investment decisions. Together with the Director Finance, ensure that deliverables are monitored against the originally planned outcome and that necessary action is taken accordingly.
• Become a trusted advisor and influencer amongst key stakeholders.

Reporting and Forecasting - Development and production of both the monthly reporting packs

• Ensure that the actual financial and operational results are provided to the Leadership and Exec teams on an accurate and timely basis together with a concise, action orientated, business focused commentary.
• To systematically and objectively review the performance of the business both actual and forecast, working with the director Finance to ensure that all material issues, risks and opportunities are promptly identified and addressed
• Support the director Finance to ensure that the function has in place an up-to-date, high-quality full year forecast that reflects all relevant material issues, opportunities and business plans, is prepared on a timely basis, shows the road map by which the required full year results will be delivered and which is owned by the management team

Budgeting and Long-Range Business Planning (Op Plan, Strat Plan) - Lead the Op Plan and Strat Plan Process for the functions you support ensuring that Engineering has in place a high quality Op Plan and Strat Plan that reflects all relevant material issues and business plans, is consistent with and delivers the results required by the Group, is prepared on a timely basis and is owned management.

Integration - Support finance integration activities between legacy Inmarsat and legacy Viasat. Be catalytic in improving financial processes across the combined organisation.

Financial analysis - Lead proactively and reactively to provide ad hoc financial and operational analysis and advice that will help the leadership team to deliver optimal operational performance through high quality strategic and tactical business decisions.

Business performance management - To play a proactive, catalytic, business and action orientated role by supporting the VP Finance to efficiently deliver the best medium term financial and operational results possible.

Interface to Group Finance - Working with Group finance, ensure that the Group accounting, transaction processing and project management capabilities (together with other processes) are appropriate for the business unit. Sponsor and motivate improvements in core financial capability

What you'll need

• Graduate with professional accounting qualification or equivalent.
• Progressive experience in finance / decision support and business partnering within quality companies.
• Superior analytical skills coupled with good strategic business understanding leading to key business insight.
• Ability to draw high quality analysis out of the results that drive decisions.
• Strong people skills, confident and comfortable at engaging collaboratively in an intellectual and multinational environment at all levels. Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• A commercially astute individual, the candidate must be technically strong, and influential with the ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels.

What will help you on the job

• 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

EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.