Manager - Treasury and Group Reporting 12 Month FTC

BDO UK; Guildford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent accountancy firm in Guildford seeks a qualified accountant to lead group reporting and manage treasury activities. Responsibilities include cashflow management, bank relationship oversight, and analytical risk reporting. Ideal candidates possess a strong understanding of financial markets and accounting standards. The firm values collaborative culture and offers flexible working to support employees' career ambitions. This role is vital for maintaining the integrity of financial reporting and management of risks.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Collaboration spaces

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Experience managing banking relationships and liquidity management.
• Ability to forecast funding and hedging requirements effectively.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to report on various risks.

Responsibilities

• Support Head of Group Reporting and Treasury with year-end group reporting.
• Monitor and manage the organisation’s bank relationships.
• Assist with complex accounting areas and resolutions.

Skills

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

Understanding and experience of treasury accounting

Strong understanding of financial markets

Confident in researching and implementing complex accounting standards

Sound understanding of accounting principles

Job description

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly‑regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

We’ll help you succeed

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 cashflow position, reporting this to Senior Stakeholders, and proposing necessary cash movements.

Key responsibilities

• Be a key banking contact, support refinancing activities with sophisticated group cashflow modelling, regularly updating the master model for budgets and forecasts.
• Monitoring and managing the organisation’s bank relationships and liquidity management.
• Managing foreign currency exposure.
• Analysing various scenarios and risks and reporting to senior management.
• Forecasting of 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 cashflow forecasts and ensure compliance with banking covenants.
• Assist with resolution of complex accounting areas & issues.
• Assist with external audit & ONS submissions.
• Assist with balance sheet reconciliations process.
• Preparing management reports.
• Liaising with senior management across the Finance team.
• Supporting 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.

Credentials

• 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, cashflow 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.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

Our culture & benefits

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people‑centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state‑of‑the‑art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

Looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.