Treasury Accountant Stroud, England
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to take part in the transformation of Ecotricity’s finance function. We are seeking a proactive and driven individual to join our team as a Treasury Accountant who can help us improve our treasury processes and controls. You will be responsible for liquidity planning and long-term cash flow forecasting for the Group, overseeing the bank reconciliation control process for a high transactional volume business – ensuring management are aware of any issues so they can act, and the operational management of the treasury team and our bank accounts.
Core Responsibilities
Long term cash flow forecasting & liquidity planning:
- Responsible for preparation and reporting to management of longer-term cash flow forecasting
- Forecast liquidity and monitor and manage the Group’s daily cash position
- Improve customer receipts modelling, taking into account government support schemes, debt provision etc
- Responsible for planning lender repayments and ensuring required debt facility reserve balances are maintained
- Develop working capital monitoring and reporting
Banking administration:
- Develop, monitor and manage cash and treasury policies, mandates etc.
- Lead the operational stakeholder management of our banking partners
- Managing the integration of accounting system with banking platforms and bank reconciliation controls
Bank reconciliation:
- Oversee the bank reconciliation process, reviewing data prepared by Treasury, and work with AP, AR and Accounting teams and improve efficiency
- Report month end position to finance management team to aid resolution of any issues
General Responsibilities
- Ensure all reporting is on time, robust, compliant, and consistent
- Develop processes, with the responsible Finance Manager, to drive best practice and embed professionalism
- Ability to work independently and proactively identify areas of improvement. Work with others to implement and see these through to completion – in both the Treasury and wider financial control team
- Team management of 2 Treasury Analysts
Essential Skills & Expertise
- Recently qualified accountant or approaching qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA etc.)
- Excellent IT skills including MS Office suite, in particular with Excel
- Ability to manage complicated information sets to an informative output
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – interacting between Finance and other key stakeholders and teams throughout the business
- Strong work ethic, dynamic and enthusiastic to drive the Group’s performance
Desirable (but not essential) Skills & Expertise
- Utilities or energy sector
- Financial modelling or treasury experience
- MS PowerQuery and/or PowerBI
Key Behaviours/Competencies
- Understanding the business
- You will demonstrate an understanding of the business to make financial decisions.
- You will have a questioning mind, not accepting of answers at face value, you will seek to obtain corroborating evidence for financial information.
- You will manage high quantities of data, to make good and timely decisions.
- You will show good financial analytical skills. Being able to interpret financial data to prepare cash flow projections and manage day to day liquidity.
- Building collaborative relationships
- You will develop relationships with other members of the business including Finance Analysts, Finance Business Partners, Management Accountants, Transactional Finance and key contacts in the wider business.
- You will demonstrate confident communication and developing leadership skills. You will be able to influence the wider business for information or process change and influencing the Treasury Analysts to develop best practice.
- Performance & results oriented
- You will have a ‘can do’ attitude. Demonstrating persistence to work through complex problems.
- You will have flexibility to deal with different finance issues across broad spectrum of tasks.
- You will hold yourself and others accountable to consistently achieve results.
- Takes initiative
- Takes on challenges, with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm.
- Encourages innovation - a desire for continuous improvement of processes, data quality and analysis to add value.
- Ability to deliver analysis in a timely manner.
What's in it for you...
Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available
As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025
Flexibility statement
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.
Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2022, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.
Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.
