Job Description
Senior Accountant - Treasury Finance team
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Salary:
£45,000-£55,000
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 role 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 one of our offices in Swindon or London, travelling monthly to Swindon, if you're based in London. 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 hybrid working here.
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 doing
You 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 hedge accounting including hedge documentation, analysis and monthly reporting. 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 you
You may have an accounting qualification but this is not essential if you have significant career experience gained within a treasury reporting environment including working with hedge accounting models and processes.
Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with experience of technical accounting under IFRS – in particular IAS 39 and IFRS 9 would be advantageous.
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 distill 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.
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The extras you’ll get
There 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 different
Nationwide 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.