Location: Hybrid working with 5 days per fortnight in our Head Office (Leek, Staffordshire) and the remaining time remotely.
Employment type:Full-time, permanent position.
Salary: £35,000 depending on experience
Working hours: 35 hours per week, worked flexibly.
Reports to: Head of Treasury & Financial Planning
Direct Reports: None
The Organisation
Leek Building Society is an award winning, highly admired, local mutual building society that is owned and trusted by its members. We were ranked in the top 10 of UK employers in the Inspiring Workplaces Awards 2024, and we're on a mission to become even stronger.
We're a great place to work, with an exceptional culture - in a recent staff survey, 97% of colleagues said that they were proud to work for Leek Building Society. We've been crowned as Staffordshire's Employer of the Year for 2023, and have been recognised as having the best approach to health & wellbeing in the UK in the 2023 CIPD awards. We're also a socially responsible, inclusive employer, deeply committed to ensuring that everyone is supported to perform at their best.
You'll be joining the business at a fantastic time of growth, with a transformational investment in our systems, people and processes to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.
Job Purpose & Scope
To support the Treasury and Financial Planning & Analysis function of the Society in their duty to manage the balance sheet and the relevant risks. This role will perform detailed reporting and analysis on the liquidity, interest rate risk and capital position while also assisting in financial analysis.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
Regular reporting:
* Prepare daily and weekly liquidity position reporting of the Society for circulation to relevant colleagues.
* Prepare a weekly analysis of the liquidity and cash flow position for reporting to regular forums, working with the wider team and other stakeholders to ensure all relevant future projections are taken into account.
* Perform analysis of usage of cash and liquidity throughout the day.
* Manage the upload of data to the Society's ALM system, ensuring processes are robust, streamlined where possible and well controlled.
Committee reporting:
* Be responsible for collation of the management information pack for the Asset and Liability Committee, working with the wider Finance team to ensure it is delivered within the required timescales.
* Collate and distribute responses for ad-hoc committee reporting/
* Collate and distribute requests from other parties, including the regulator, for onward review.
Treasury
* Own the process for updating of data in relation to tranche management, working with the Products team and Finance colleagues to ensure it is up to date, accurate and produced efficiently.
* Uphold compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards, ensuring robust treasury operations.
* Promote and represent the Treasury and Financial Planning team, fostering a proactive spirit of change and continuous improvement.
* Assist the Senior Treasury Analyst in their responsibilities for:
o Capital stress testing
o Liquidity stress testing
o IRRBB reporting
o Behavioural analysis
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
* Demonstrable IT skills with good knowledge of MS Excel
Desirable
* Working knowledge of the product offerings and balance sheet of a Building Society
* Achieved or partially achieved a relevant accounting or treasury qualification
* A bachelor's degree in a relevant subject
Experience
* Experience of working in a financial services organisation would be advantageous but is not a requirement
Skills & Abilities
* Strong team player
* An ability to problem solve and develop solutions
* Excellent communicator
Other Requirements
* Travel to other business locations when required
* A Basic DBS check will be undertaken upon an offer of employment.
What benefits are on offer:
* Competitive salary rates
* 35 hour working week (full-time)
* Contributory Stakeholder Pension Scheme
* Free health screening
* Minimum of 23 days paid holiday per annum plus bank and public holidays
* Parental Schemes
* Sick Pay guaranteed for 6 months for major illnesses
* Holiday purchase/sale scheme
* Life assurance of 4 times your annual salary
* Employee assistance programme
* Continuous development opportunities
* We're open to discussing working flexibly
* Onsite gym available to employees
If the above sounds like something you'd thrive at, we'd love to hear from you #J-18808-Ljbffr