Budget Specialist- Marketing Operations

Soldo is the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more. We free finance with a uniquely proactive approach to managing decentralised spending. By combining a powerful spend management platform, user-friendly app, and versatile payment methods, Soldo automates expense admin to eliminates the inefficiency in managing business spending.

We’re both a financial services and a software company - with our own platform proactively managing decentralised spend, allowing organisations to empower employees to spend when and where it's needed, keeping productivity high while avoiding month-end surprises.

Founded in 2015 by Italian digital innovator Carlo Gualandri, we have grown to become one of Europe’s fastest growing fintech companies. Today, we’re over 350 employees strong, with offices in the UK, Italy and Ireland.

With four offices in London, Dublin, Rome and Milan, we’re helping over 25,000 organisations across 31 countries to end slow, messy, and inefficient spending, bringing financial agility and control over every expense.

We’re looking for people with big ambitions, cool heads, sharp minds, and warm hearts. Soldo could be the right place, right size and the right time, for you to come and join us, as we grow together.

What's in it for you:

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working options including working from home or our Marylebone office
• 60 days’ work anywhere, even outside the UK if you want
• 25 days off a year, plus public holidays as well as Christmas Eve and New Years' Eve, 2 volunteering days and an extra day off on your birthday
• Genuine career development opportunities, including our mentoring scheme, your own annual £500 learning budget
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing portal

The Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented Marketing Budget Specialist to support the marketing team with budgeting, contract management and procurement processes. As part of the Marketing Operations team this person will work with the marketing team to ensure our marketing spend and budget are accurate and will manage the contracting and procurement process.

The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of financial processes, business to business marketing, and must be able to work collaboratively with our marketing, finance and legal teams.

We're looking for someone who must have:

• Been responsible for the ongoing management of the marketing budget, ensuring accurate spend tracking across all marketing channels.
• Managed the procurement process end to end, from raising requests through Statement of Work and Contract Reviews, to liaising with legal to review Terms and Conditions.
• Experience in Processing and tracking marketing-related expenses, including verifying the accuracy of supplier invoices and card payments, ensuring compliance with financial controls and company procedures.
• Prepared budget reports, summarising marketing spend, identifying variances, and completing the end of month reconciliations in collaboration with the Finance team.
• Worked closely with the marketing, legal and finance teams to ensure budget and spend accuracy and compliance
• Contributed to the improvement of budgeting processes and tools to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of budget tracking.
• Previous experience in a financial or budget-focused role, preferably within a marketing environment.
• Excellent organisational skills and keen attention to detail.
• Familiarity working with basic budgeting & workflow management tools
• Good communication skills, with the ability to present financial information in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and manage multiple tasks efficiently.
• Analytical mindset, with the ability to identify key insights from financial data.

It would be nice if you have

• Experience working with business to business marketing teams