The role

The Corporate treasury team are responsible for ensuring that the business has sufficient cash to meet its multi-billion pound operating needs. This includes the management of bank accounts, investments, foreign currency requirements and financial control. The treasury team also plays a key role in payment acceptance and emerging payment technologies. This role reports into the Treasurer and sits within the Corporate Finance division of Finance.

Main Responsibilities

• Liquidity management to ensure cash is available for use when needed and appropriately invested when not. This includes planning and reporting on cash flows and working with business partners to identify and deliver working capital improvements
• Planning, analysis and reporting on payment acceptance costs
• Working with business partners to critically evaluate new payment types and technology
• Leading and developing a team of 2 treasury colleagues
• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and presenting them to the UK controllership office, Internal Audit and External Audit as part of maintaining a strong financial control environment.
• Identifying and delivering process improvements to improve efficiency and enhance controls within the team and wider business
• Be a trusted advisor to the business on FX and all aspects of payments
• Management of bank account mandates, bank account structure and play a key part in banking relationships
• Execution of FX hedging programs for the group and assessment of new hedging opportunities

Role Requirements

• A qualified accountant or appropriate Treasury management experience. (Previous Treasury experience is an advantage but not essential)
• Strong people management skills
• Attention to detail and a demonstrable record of process improvement
• Ability to work in a highly responsible role at pace and under pressure
• Strong analytical skills and commercial awareness
• A good communicator - able to influence at all levels
• Able to work independently with initiative but also to collaboratively with internal and external teams to deliver against the Corporate Treasury objectives
• MS Excel skills to a good standard

This position would ideally suit:

A qualified accountant looking to work in a fast paced corporate Treasury environment within the retail sector and with the opportunity to develop within treasury and the wider finance function.

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