Senior Accountant – Treasury Finance

Job title:

Senior Accountant – Treasury Finance

Company

Nationwide

Job description

As a Senior Accountant in the Treasury Finance team, you’ll lead aspects of our financial and regulatory reporting whilst implementing improvements and supporting projects.You will work closely with the Treasury function to provide insight and information as well as supporting new transactions and product development. We have an exciting time ahead and joining the team offers a great opportunity to develop your career at Nationwide.The Treasury Finance team is part of the Financial Reporting and Tax function and provides technical accounting and financial reporting expertise in relation to Treasury transactions.The team partners with the Treasury function to ensure that results are accurately reported and understood by stakeholders, as well as working across the Finance and Treasury functions to deliver a variety of different projects for Nationwide.At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.For this job you’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you’ll spend 40% of your working time, at our office in Swindon. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to .If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.What you’ll be doingYou will be working in an exciting environment, with key projects underway, interesting developments in Financial and Regulatory Reporting as well as new products and processes being delivered.You will lead aspects of our regular reporting of results and performance. You will play a key part in telling the story of Treasury performance and helping others to understand the impact of Treasury accounting on results.You will prepare and review key aspects of our monthly reporting and analysis. You will collaborate with colleagues to understand the commercial drivers behind the numbers in order to do this effectively.You’ll play a key part in helping to develop and improve the way we do things. This could include ongoing continuous improvement activity or supporting key projects to develop our functionality for the future.You will build relationships across the team, representing Treasury Finance where needed. You will also support junior colleagues with their own career development.About youYou may have an accounting qualification, but this is not essential if you have significant career experience gained within a finance industry reporting environment.

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) or qualified by experience
• Experience of working within a treasury or financial reporting environment in industry (Financial Services advantageous).
• Strong communication skills – you will need to be able to communicate about technical matters to a range of colleagues and stakeholders.
• Advanced IT skills including excel, use of financial reporting or treasury systems advantageous.
• Advanced analysis skills with the ability to distil and assess lots of numerical information.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight – This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better – This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done – This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.The extras you’ll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

What makes us differentNationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.What to do nextIf this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

Expected salary

Location

Swindon

Job date

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:25:02 GMT

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