Treasury Accountant

NATS; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading air navigation service provider in the UK is looking for a Treasury Accountant to join their corporate treasury team. The role focuses on financial reporting, managing operational controls, and ensuring robust risk management in support of strategic decision-making. Ideal candidates should be part or fully qualified accountants with advanced Excel skills and strong attention to detail. The position offers opportunities for professional growth and the flexibility of agile working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive total reward package

Qualifications

• Understanding of cash management and liquidity planning.
• Familiarity with IFRS financial reporting standards.
• Knowledge of treasury management systems desirable.
• Understanding of interest rate, FX, and credit risk.
• Awareness of financial regulations affecting treasury functions.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and deliver treasury reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage treasury operational controls and ensure effectiveness.
• Contribute to cash-flow forecasting and reporting.
• Streamline treasury reporting through innovation and technology.
• Attend the Treasury Committee and support project work.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

Data analysis proficiency

Cash flow forecasting

Attention to detail

Effective communication with non-finance stakeholders

Collaboration with finance teams

Integrity and confidentiality

Adaptability to evolving financial environment

Organizational skills

Education

Part or fully qualified accountant or AMCT qualification

Tools

Treasury management systems

Job description

Salary - £51,577.33 - £68,769.77

Closing date - Sunday 18th January 2026

NATS is the UK's leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Job Purpose/Overview:

Join a dynamic corporate treasury team at an exciting time as the NATS treasury function evolves in support of our growth strategy to 2040. We are introducing a dedicated Treasury Accountant role to strengthen transparency, accuracy, and governance across our operations. This position will play a pivotal part in shaping the future of our treasury processes, ensuring robust risk management and compliance while driving innovation in reporting standards. By embedding best‑in‑class controls and leveraging data‑driven insights, the role will support strategic decision‑making and enable the team to adapt to a rapidly changing financial landscape.

With a debt portfolio of over £1bn and public profile as an issuer of corporate bonds, NATS has a number of high‑profile reporting and disclosure obligations. The role of Treasury Accountant will take responsibility for the production of high‑quality treasury reporting, both external and internal where relevant across the NATS group, to meet expectations of a wide variety of institutional and executive stakeholders.

The role will also handle all aspects of treasury's operational control environment. Robust controls are pivotal to the department's objective in managing financial risk and ensuring the group's available liquidity. Therefore in being accountable for treasury controls, the role will be expected to capture relevant data, monitor and review control effectiveness and develop a framework – in collaboration with the stakeholders across finance and the business – for continuous operational improvement to enhance the performance of the function.

The holder of this role will be the prime reporting interface between NATS Treasury and Group Financial Control, as well as providing significant input to stakeholders ranging from bondholders to the business planning team. Given the nature of these relationships and deliverables, the role requires a high level of diligence, analytical and technical capability, appreciation of wider accounting and governance topics and effective communication skills. They will be expected to embody trusted business partner principles focussed on efficiency, collaboration and innovation, adopting core values associated with growth, control and challenge.

Given the broad nature of this role, the holder of this position will also be expected to provide cover for back‑office activity and enquiries into transactional postings as required. It will also contribute to ad hoc treasury projects, including the cost of capital workstream for each regulatory price control. This is an important role, the holder of which will be provided with opportunity for growth and broadening of experience, which could facilitate promotion to more senior roles within NATS Treasury.

Other responsibilities include:

Annual report and accounts (and reporting)

Prepare and deliver high quality borrowings and financial instruments disclosure notes for the interim and annual report and accounts in line with the group reporting timetable, along with associated analysis and reporting, including submission of covenant compliance certification documentation to lenders, the annual presentation of results to investors and preparation of bank and credit rating annual results review materials.

Audit delivery and oversight

Responsible for liaising with group auditors to coordinate accurate and timely delivery of all year‑end audit deliverables related to the treasury scope within the annual report and accounts, as well as with internal auditors (plus the wider NATS risk and assurance team) to ensure successful completion of internal audit reviews, recording and investigation of any findings and implementation of any recommended actions required.

Cash flow reporting and forecasting

Responsible for group cash‑flow forecasting and reporting in line with monthly close timetable, ensuring completeness and accuracy of forecasting, collaborating with other areas of Finance as appropriate to assure data and apply critical challenge to forecasting assumptions. This remit includes the continuous improvement and evolution of upstream liquidity reporting, production of the annual business plan cash‑flow statement and taking the lead for any treasury consultation on cash planning systemisation and tools.

Treasury operational control environment

Responsible for identifying, testing, monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of treasury operational controls in line with the department's self‑assurance requirements, and aligned with needs arising from other internal departments. Such responsibility will include understanding treasury controls best practice, development of and adherence to a testing programme, ensuring robust evidence gathering and recording, undertaking the annual review of treasury policies, creation of a key control reporting and assessment framework (to include ongoing policy compliance monitoring), and timely delivery of testing results to enable treasury sign‑off on any control effectiveness statements required by the Corporate Code.

Internal reporting innovation

Responsible for streamlining and innovating treasury reporting, embracing systems, AI and automation technology as appropriate, to encompass existing reporting (for example Treasury Committee, policy compliance, investor relations and cash‑flow reporting) as well as designing and developing new reporting, these to include a new treasury performance dashboard and operational controls effectiveness reporting.

Cover for middle and back office

The role will provide cover in case of unplanned absences in the middle office and back office analyst roles, for any reporting or SAP analysis requirements and any back office transactional checks and validation work, as required.

Treasury Committee and projects

Attend the Treasury Committee and take the meeting minutes, and support the Head of Treasury in relation to cost of capital assessments for regulatory price controls and any other ad hoc project work that may arise from time to time.

Essential Skills and Experience:

Qualifications

Part or fully qualified accountant and/or AMCT (from the Association of Corporate Treasurers) qualification is highly desirable. Where necessary, support will be provided to complete any remaining accountancy exams, and/or to commence AMCT qualification.

Professional Knowledge

• Treasury operations – understanding of cash management and liquidity planning
• Financial reporting standards – familiarity with IFRS
• Treasury management systems – knowledge desirable
• Risk management – understanding of interest rate, FX and credit risk
• Regulatory compliance – awareness of financial regulations affecting treasury functions

Skills

• Advanced Excel skills and a proficiency in data analysis
• Experience with cash flow forecasting and variance analysis
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy in reporting
• Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non‑finance stakeholders
• Effective collaboration with other teams within the finance function and across NATS
• High level of integrity and confidentiality
• Adaptability in an evolving financial environment
• Strong organisational and time management skills

Additional Vacancy Information

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally – for more information on what NATS can offer you please visit – Why NATS?

We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. Find out more here.

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.