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About the Role
What's in it for you?
This is a great opportunity for an organised, detail-oriented person who can manage multiple tasks and operate processes independently. Joining the Centre of Expertise offers a diverse experience. To excel, you need to be proactive, eager to learn, focused, self-motivated, and deadline driven. The Finance team consists of about 50 people working in various business areas, meaning you will have great insight into Octopus.
The team:
The Treasury Team sits within the Finance Centre of Expertise and is responsible for the Group’s cash management (including payments and bank reconciliations), managing banking relationships and risk management.
This role reports into the Treasury Manager.
What you'll be doing:
1. Bank Account Management
2. Responsible for the opening and closing of all bank accounts within the group.
3. Maintaining bank mandates and ensuring these are regularly updated, approved by the relevant Boards and communicated to the banks.
4. Maintenance of group bank account masterfile and regular review to ensure changes and updates are reflected on a timely basis.
5. Managing KYC requirements needed by all banking counterparties.
6. Ensure bank account reconciliations are completed in a timely manner across the group.
7. Money Market Fund Administration
8. Responsible for new onboarding requests.
9. Responsible for setting up/removing users from relevant mandates and systems.
10. Ensure trading mandates are up to date at all times.
11. Systems Management
12. Manage and maintain bank accounts and banking counterparties on relevant systems used in Treasury and ensure static data within the system is correct.
13. Supporting on ad-hoc projects and requests, including ownership of bank account queries from the business.
Qualifications
1. Understand KYC and bank account opening/closing protocols.
2. Studying or wanting to pursue a Finance/Treasury professional qualification.
3. Competent in Excel (Vlookups, Pivot Tables, able to build basic reports).
4. Demonstrable track record of improving processes and controls.
5. Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management, ability to quickly build relationships within the team and across departments.
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?
This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast-paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that.
What we offer
1. A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan.
2. Untracked holiday.
3. Hybrid working – our people spend 3 days a week in the office.
4. Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one-to-one coaching through Wellness Cloud, Digital GP, Shout & more.
5. Up to 6 months paid parental leave regardless of gender.
6. Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection.
7. Private medical insurance for you and your family.
8. Electric vehicle leasing.
Our Values
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests of all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.
We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.
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