Treasury Assistant

 Location: UK - Hatfield | Job-ID: 208136 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Finance & Accounting

Life on the team

The Group Treasury team is responsible for ensuring that Computacenter maintains the appropriate liquidity for the management of the business. This means ensuring that the different operating companies within the Group have access to the appropriate cash and funding to meet their obligations.

The team manages the Group's cash deposits, ensuring that funds are placed in accordance with the Board mandate to minimise risk while maximising the interest return. The team also generates and reviews external payments to ensure that these are made correctly.

Exposure to foreign currencies is also actively managed by Treasury. The team is responsible for trading foreign currency of up to the equivalent of £700m each year.  The team also provides advice to the business on currency risk so that deals can be structured in a way which minimises the Group's exposure to fluctuations in exchange rates.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be joining a busy and friendly team offering stability and progression opportunities. 

You’ll gain exposure to working in a multinational Treasury team, gain exposure to working with multiple currencies and be part of a longer-term plan to learn and be able to work in all aspects of Computacenter’s Treasury team.

Working as part of a small and friendly team, you’ll take on some of the below day to day responsibilities – with a view to upskilling and learning to work on the others over the longer term:

• Payment runs for both UK and international transactions
• Uploading requests and sending to signatories – and ensuring signatories review and return within the required timeframe
• Cashflows
• Cashpooling – ensuring all members have sufficient funds and providing interest % information to relevant parties
• Net Funds and FX forecasting – Calculating month end forecasts for local and international offices
• Updating Financial Exchange rates
• Swaps
• Month End reconciliations/revaluations
• Checking company card holder transactions and forwarding for payment
• Ad Hoc Treasury duties/answering queries/Filing.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone with a passion for finance who wants to build a career in Treasury. You’ll need to be someone who enjoys working to tight deadlines, is confident in speaking to senior level stakeholders and eager to learn and build their skillset over time.

You’ll also need:

• A high aptitude for numeracy/currency
• Intermediate to advanced Excel Skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High accuracy and good attention to detail skills
• Experience of working in a fast-paced office environment
• A degree/qualification in a related subject - i.e. accounting, economics, finance or business administration (desirable).

Additional information

Country: UK
Location:  Hatfield (hybrid)
Hours: 37.5

Role Type: Permanent  
 

About us

With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, enabling people and their business.