Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description
The Role
* Following separation from a FTSE 250 Group, Fastmarkets Treasury has become an important and central part of the overall Fastmarkets Finance function. This is a newly created role, primarily to provide support to the Senior Treasury Manager who is responsible for all Treasury activities for the group. This role will be responsible for all the daily operational treasury activities of Fastmarkets.
Principal Accountabilities
* Responsibility for daily cash management activities including:
o Updating the daily cash spreadsheet with all cash movements (inflows and outflows) across the Group’s bank accounts
o Ensuring the group has sufficient daily liquidity
o Ensuring all overseas subsidiaries are funded
o Investing surplus funds into the money market fund accounts
o Drawing on debt facilities when required
* Manage and maintain bank accounts and mandates (incl. KYC)
* Manage the online bank platforms
* Answering adhoc payment questions from P2P/R2R by liasing with the banks where necessary.
* Ensure treasury cash management activities are logged and accounted for properly
* Managing the Groups credit card facilities with Amex and HSBC.
* Responsible for adhering to the Group’s treasury policies & procedures
* Providing adhoc support to the Senior Treasury Manager as and when required.
KEY INTERFACES
* Finance Leadership Team Relationship Banks
* External – advisors, lawyers & PE sponsors
* Finance Team
* Company secretarial/legal Team
* Payroll Team
Qualifications
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.
Technical experience and skills
* Minimum 1 years treasury experience
* Experience of bank account opening and using/maintaining banking portals is essential
* Some knowledge or experience of banking KYC documentation would be an advantage, though not essential.
* Strong competency in liquidity management
* Some knowledge of accounting for treasury activities would be an advantage, though not essential
* Excellent knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word.
* Experience of working with a Treasury Management systems is essential.
Competencies
* Enthusiastic, proactive and keen to work as part of the Treasury team
* Results, deadline and quality driven
* Ability to communicate effectively internally and externally. Ability to proactively deal with different teams across the business.
* Confidence and desire to take responsibility for deliverables
* Excellent attention to detail
If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or
qualifications
don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information
Our Values
Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.
Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do. Our values are:
* METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
* ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
* GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
* INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
* CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
* COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.
You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!
If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.