Treasury Project Accountant

Project Accountant
Location: Milton Keynes (hybrid 2 days per week on site)
Rate: 350 to 400 per day via umbrella company
Length: 6 months

This role takes responsibility for the Treasury function in Finance for defining business requirements, assessing how system/process changes impact downstream processes and business readiness activities.
As new code and functionality is delivered, the person in this role will gain a full understanding of the operational tasks performed within the new application for their related functional team.
A large part of the role will be cross functional working within the programmes, including our new contract management platform suppliers as well as our colleagues in the Finance Department and other workstreams within the programme.
Note: this is not an operational role. This role takes experience and knowledge from operational experience and applies it to working in a cross functional programme delivery team.

This role will work closely with the Treasury Team and have a good understanding of all tasks as follows:

• Treasury Middle Office - Daily Liquidity planning, payment processing, maintaining working schedules, and SWAP reconciliations.
• Accounting - Month End journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations process and HQ reporting.
• SAP TRM - Understanding of SAP TRM and how it interacts with SAP FI / S4 Hana on a daily basis, and how month end journals are processed.
• Cashbook - ensuring all bank transactions are accounted for in the SAP ledger in a timely and accurate manner.

• Cross functional working with Finance Operations and the wider Finance team to support and deliver the Finance business strategy and objectives.
• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business and ensuring the transactional data flow through internal systems is carried out with quality, accuracy and on time which is paramount to the integrity and performance of the business and customer satisfaction.
• Attending project meetings as required, managing diary and meeting conflicts.
• Understand the interaction and impact of subsidiary systems on the main accounting systems to ensure system integrity, particularly in relation to specific Balance Sheet and Profit & loss accounts, highlighting issues as necessary.
• Support in the writing of business requirements, clarifying accounting treatment and process with the functional Team.
• Collaborating with the Business Analysts, Developers and Testers in the delivery of the requirements.
• Understand the impact of operational changes to procedures and core business systems.
• Learn the key features of the new applications.
• Input into migration and reconciliation activity.
• Drafting the process maps and procedures relating to the new processes/tasks to be performed by the functional Team.
• Support colleagues within the Finance workstreams as required.
• Provide regular updates to the Treasury Team on programme progress and secure decisions/escalation where required.
• Perform/Support UAT where appropriate to ensure that key controls are included within testing to deliver a robust solution.
• Contribute to training material and subsequent training roll outs to impacted colleagues.

Desirable

• Treasury Operations knowledge - understanding of cash management, banking and intercompany loans.
• Part or fully Qualified Accountant (ACCA, CIMA or ACA) or equivalent
• Prior involvement in ERP upgrades or system integrations (especially S/4HANA or booking systems)
• Demonstrable knowledge of SAP R/3 and or S/4 Hana, SAP TRM, Banking modules and General Ledger management.
• A competent understanding of commercial, regulatory and compliance legislation.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to clearly define and investigate business process issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with both Finance and non-Finance staff at all levels.
• Good self-organisation with a proven methodical and disciplined approach to work.
• Highly motivated, able to work flexibly under pressure, apply own initiative without supervision in order to meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to react effectively to resolve problems.
• Experience of managing relationships and the ability to work collaboratively to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Self-motivated and a strong team player.
• Up to date awareness of regulatory and compliance legislation as it impacts on the role.
• Creative thinker with the ability to produce original ideas to automate processes and deliver operational excellence.