Manager (Treasury Control)

This is a very exciting opportunity for a finance professional to join a rapidly expanding global company. The role is in a multi-layered global finance team and will be the first Financial Controller focused on the accounting and control of the Group Treasury function. 

The ideal candidate will be someone that has great accounting and treasury knowledge with a willingness to be hands-on, someone that is self motivated with excellent communication skills. You will be joining a growing global controller team that is building a more controlled and best in class environment. The role owns the reporting processes for our global treasury activities and will need to liaise across all financial controllers, product control and treasury teams to ensure all processes are completed and results understood.

Remit and responsibilities:

• Financial controller, owning the accounting and financial reporting for treasury products e.g. FX, including hedging costs, investment returns across the group, liaising with the treasury front office to ensure accuracy of accounting and reporting.

• Work with treasury teams, including liquidity management and capital management, to ensure adherence to appropriate policies, assisting with, for example, reporting, wind down planning and stress testing.

• Assist with cash forecasting and cash variance analysis processes alongside Treasury and Strategic Finance teams to ensure accurate reporting and improving process efficiency.  

• Work with Treasury teams to understand intercompany funding structures, supporting & identifying opportunities to unlock value either via dividends or intercompany loans.

• As the SME, you will ensure our processes and controls within remit are robust and will meet audit requirements and ensure effective and timely delivery of the audit evidence/support during year-end audits. 

• Managing external stakeholders such auditors and service providers

• Participate in local and global ad hoc projects as necessary

• Responsible for building strong processes and controls that are appropriate for a highly regulated environment

Successful candidates will bring a strong accounting and financial control background, leading and delivering financial accounting and reporting in complex, regulatory environments, ideally within good treasury product knowledge from a banking or payments/fintech environment.

• 8+ years of  financial accounting and controls experience ideally within a listed environment or large complex company

• Highly motivated and able to work towards tight deadlines on multiple projects in a fast-paced work environment

• Experience in Treasury products, Product control or similar to deliver financial statement reporting and delivering audits on time 

• Excellent stakeholder manager, comfortable being a contact point in finance and liaising with numerous stakeholders across Checkout and external providers including auditors

• Professional finance qualification such as the ACA or equivalent. You will also hold practical knowledge of IFRS and general accounting principles.

• Strong understanding of double-entry and complex accounting concepts

• Systems knowledge, particularly Workday and Kyriba would be highly desirable