Manager - Treasury and Group Reporting

Bdo; Fernhill; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced finance professional to support the Head of Group Reporting and Treasury. This role includes managing group reporting, treasury operations, and ensuring the integrity of cash-flow reporting. The ideal candidate should be a qualified accountant who is confident in treasury accounting and possesses strong analytical skills. This supportive position would be well-suited for a self-motivated individual eager to drive process improvements across the finance department.

Qualifications

• Confident in researching and implementing complex accounting standards.
• Understanding and experience of treasury accounting including FX, liquidity, cash-flow.
• Sound understanding of accounting principles.

Responsibilities

• Manage foreign currency exposure.
• Forecast medium and long-term funding and hedging requirements.
• Daily cash management.
• Prepare management reports.
• Team management.

Skills

Qualified Accountant – CIMA, ACA or ACCA – PQE or equivalent

Researching and implementing complex accounting standards

Understanding of treasury accounting including FX, liquidity, cash-flow

Understanding of financial markets

Knowledge of banking relationships

Job description

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long‑lasting relationships. You'll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with. The main purpose of this role is to support the “Head of Group Reporting and Treasury”. The group reporting remit of the role will include leading the year‑end group reporting, production of statutory accounts for the UK Group’s legal entities and ensuring the integrity of reporting is maintained. The treasury remit of this individual’s responsibilities will include maintaining the Group’s daily cash‑flow position, reporting this to Senior Stakeholders, and proposing necessary cash movements. You will be a self‑motivated, driven, and trusted professional who is keen to improve processes.

Responsibilities

• Be a key banking contact, support refinancing activities with sophisticated group cash‑flow modelling, and regularly update the master model for budgets and forecasts.
• Monitor and manage the organisation’s bank relationships and liquidity management.
• Manage foreign currency exposure.
• Analyse various scenarios and risks and report to senior management.
• Forecast medium and long‑term funding and hedging requirements (if any).
• Daily cash management.
• Debt facilities management.
• Interest rate risk management and development of risk‑mitigation strategies.
• Foreign exchange risk management and development of foreign‑exchange risk‑mitigation strategies.
• Manage cash‑flow forecasts and ensure compliance with banking covenants.
• Assist with resolution of complex accounting areas and issues.
• Assist with external audit and ONS submissions.
• Assist with balance‑sheet reconciliations process.
• Prepare management reports.
• Liaise with senior management across the Finance team.
• Support the month‑end process where necessary.
• Proactively drive necessary process and reporting improvements across the Finance department, which automate and add value, and identify advantageous market conditions or possibilities.
• Identify process weaknesses or errors and highlight these to senior management together with proposed solutions.
• Contribute ideas to the long‑term planning and strategy of the Finance department.
• Team management.
• Conduct performance management, including annual and interim appraisals.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant – CIMA, ACA or ACCA – PQE or equivalent.
• Confident in researching and implementing complex accounting standards.
• Understanding and experience of treasury accounting including FX, liquidity, cash‑flow and various financial instruments.
• Sound understanding of accounting principles.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, financial instruments and debt instruments.
• Knowledge of banking relationships and covenants.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

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