Group Reporting Analyst

Location:
Chelmsford, Essex
Department:
Finance
16 Jul 2025
Job Description

About:  Global Marine Group is a leading independent provider of submarine cable solutions offering a broad range of services including consultancy, installation and maintenance covering the lifespan of a submarine cable system and delivered to customers worldwide. 

Purpose: Our parent group requires substantial detail to allow them to meet their reporting requirements and understand underlying performance across their portfolio, both through regular monthly reporting and as part of our budgeting and forecasting cycles.  The Group Reporting Analyst will deliver timely, accurate, and insightful financial reports and help understand the drivers of reported results to improve forecasting in focus areas. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business to continuously improve the efficiency and effectiveness of reporting processes and help ensure on-time delivery and eliminate errors.

Key Deliverables:
  • Prepare and help develop detailed reports including testing and error correction.
  • Manage complex data to provide insights that can help inform decision making by presenting this information in a clear and concise manner.
  • Develop and maintain a clear understanding of the source, flow and transformation of reported data.
  • Proactively review reporting to locate, assess and fix errors and/or understand anomalies.
  • Drive automation initiatives to enhance data integrity and deliver more efficient reporting outputs.
  • Support the budgeting and forecasting process including submission review, aggregation and reporting with highlights from analysis.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand reporting needs, implement process enhancements to improve reporting efficiency and accuracy whilst deliver solutions that meet evolving business requirements.
  • Supporting stakeholders through process change necessary to deliver group reporting needs.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

  • At least part qualified accountant, or actively studying towards (ACCA, CIMA, ACA).
  • Analytical, proactive, and enjoys solving complex business problems.
  • Ability to accurately analyse and interpret large datasets.
  • Proficiency in creating clear, actionable visual reports with attention to detail.
  • Strong people skills with the ability to quickly build rapport with internal stakeholders across the organisation.
  • First class Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Comfortable working to tight deadlines and managing competing priorities.
This role is required to work on-site for 3 days a week at our Chelmsford office with 2 other days working from home (one being a Friday).
 
To ensure our organisation complies with immigration rules, all candidates must provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK when applying. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor candidates on student visas.
 
If you do not hear from us within two weeks, please assume that your application has not been successful.
 
For the attention of Recruitment Agencies,  we will not be requiring the services from Recruitment Agencies for this role.
About The Company

The Group consists of three business units; Global Marine provides fibre optic cable installation and maintenance solutions to the telecommunications and oil & gas markets, OceanIQ provides unparalleled subsea cable data, survey, route engineering, permitting and consultancy services for telecom and power cable projects and SubConnect which provides extensive expertise and experience in all aspects of subsea cables, ranging from design and testing to the provision of subsea housing and interconnectors.

With a global workforce of over 800 talented individuals, together the Group has installed over 315,000 kilometres of subsea telecoms cable, performed maintenance operations on 33% of the worlds fibre optic cables and has detailed data records on over 2.8million km of cable - 97% of all fibre, and 90% of all power cable including, over 6,000 historic cable faults.

The Global Marine Group team is full of passionate people, sharing a wealth of knowledge and constantly achieving excellence. 

 Employee Benefits
  • Group Pension with access to Independent Financial Advisor
  • Life Cover – inclusive with Group Pension Plan
  • Private Medical Insurance and Medicash Plan
  • Dental Scheme – at a subsidised cost
  • Fitness Club Subsidy
  • X2 Professional Subscriptions
  •  Cycle Scheme – As per the green initiative, approved by the Government scheme
  • Eye Sight Test contribution
  • Perkbox - employee discount scheme along with a Wellness Hub
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
  • 25 days Annual Leave
  • Option to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave per year
  • Long Service Awards
  • Reward & Recognition
  • Referral programme
  • Employee Assistance programme
  • 3 paid volunteer days
  • Free on-site parking - At all sites
Global Marine Group are committed to making our recruitment process accessible and inclusive for everyone. If you require reasonable adjustments for your interview, please reach out to during your recruitment process. We are more than happy to accommodate your needs to ensure you have the best possible experience during the selection process.