Treasury Accountant

This law firm has a history going back to the late 1800s when they were established in the City of London. They opened their first overseas office in the 1970s and now have offices in many locations across the globe. They are now a dynamic, commercial firm and leaders in their specialist business areas.

They are looking to hire a Treasury Accountant this Is a newly created position. The main responsibilities of this role is to ensure that global cash management operations are managed efficiently and effectively. The role will work closely with the Head of Finance, Internal Audit and the global Finance network on all aspects of Treasury operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaison with global Finance managers on the firm's cash flow position. Maintain cash flow forecasts for the group, anticipating cash requirements and addressing any shortfalls

• Measure monthly cash management performance against forecast and budget for the group

• Ownership and administration of the groups cash flow reporting and forecasting system

• Manage the group's global cash resources to ensure optimal use and location of funds in all major operating currencies

• Assist with developing and implementing the group's Treasury and Online Banking policies, ensuring that robust controls and processes exist around Treasury operations.

• Take the lead on developing currency hedging practices with third party advisors and clearly communicate the results of such hedging to senior management

• Undertake Treasury management reporting and analysis with the development of KPI's, which can be presented to the Management Board

• Ensure that global offices have sufficient funds to meet their local working capital requirements. Repatriate cash to London where surplus funds exist

• Cash flow modelling of the impact of future investments across the group

• Development and execution of policies and practices around the settlement of inter-company balances ensuring that FX exposure is reduced

• Assist in the management of bank relationships and facilities, including covenant reporting, quarterly updates, refinancing, renewals and bank charges

• Ownership of the central management of bank guarantees

• Monitor facility usage and manage the drawdown of RCF facilitie

• Responsibility for maintaining bank mandates, the register of online banking users and being an administrator on all online banking platforms across the group

• Support the development and implementation of the group's banking strategy

Candidate Profile

• Qualified accountant or studying towards qualification and studying or prepared to study towards a relevant treasury qualification

• Previous treasury experience including dealing with banks, cash management, FX analysis and FX hedging desirable

• Professional services (law, accountancy, consultancy firm) experience

• Strong organisation, administration and analytical skills

• Strong Excel skills

• Experience of working within a multi-currency and multi-jurisdictional environment

Important Notice

It is Career Legal's policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its clients.