Financial Operations Assistant
Wifinity
- United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time
Wifinity was founded in 2007 to solve a problem—our armed forces were struggling with reliable connectivity. While living in barracks, often in remote locations, ordering a landline and booking in an engineer just wasn’t an option.And that problem isn’t exclusive to the military, either. Students living in University accommodation, families visiting holiday resorts, or living in shared accommodation and retirement communities.Conventional home broadband doesn’t always work for them.Wifinity is different. We offer the same benefits as traditional broadband, such as super-fast speeds, WiFi, and secure and private networks, but none of the downsides. We even offer Pay As You Go and flexible contracts, so customers only pay for what they need without hefty penalties or long contract terms.We take the complexity out of connectivity.The opportunity:Reporting to the Finance Business Partner (with a dotted line to the AP Supervisor) on a major 10 year contract, the role of Fins Ops Assistant offers a great opportunity to flourish in a fast growing tech/telco business.Key areas of focus:Joining the finance team, you will be responsible for:
- Liaising with the progamme team, ensuring data records are up to date to improve efficiency of the Fin Ops processes
- Validate purchase requests and ensuring purchase orders are coded correctly & in a timely manner prior to triaging to seniors for further approval
- Work with supplier relationship and procurement leads in ensuring compliance with credit terms and internal governance process
- Act as conduit between programme, legal, finance and procurement in onboarding suppliers
- Verify invoices against purchase orders and ensure goods or services were received prior to approval
- Prepare suggested supplier payments in a timely manner
- Protect businesses against unintentional overpayment, maintain materials tracker and supplier credits forecast
- Supporting the programme with creation of project codes and entering of budgets into financial system
- Maintain the billing schedule and support client billing process in conjunction with the Finance Business partner and Senior Project accountant
- Handle supplier queries, provide appropriate solutions and alternatives within the expected time frame and follow up to ensure resolution and act as
- Point of contact for both supplier payment and customer billing queries
- Assisting with gathering of information and documents for the financial year end audit and explaining subsequent reconciling items. Support client open book audit requests
- Monitor timesheet completion and maintain resource trackers / open book schedules
- Support on adhoc analysis as required from time to time on the major contract or other related Fin Ops activity to provide cover to team members as appropriate.
- Work experience as a Finance Assistant under a deadline driven environment
- Good knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping procedures: accounts payable, accounts receivable
- Familiarity with accounting software
- Meticulous attention to detail, with an ability to work with high volumes of transactions
- Advanced MS Excel skills (creating spreadsheets and using financial functions)
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills
- A genuine team player who is keen to work with the team in order to get the job done
- Effective communicator and a self-starter
- Experience of working in a PE-backed business or experience of the Tech/Telco sector