Treasury Finance Accountant

Business Unit: Finance, Financial Control.
Salary Range: up to circa £46,000 depending on experience
Location: Remote –work from anywhere within the UK
Contract type: Fixed term for 12 months (mat leave cover)

Your life more Virgin starts here

A fantastic opportunity exists within our Treasury Finance Team right now. You’ll work closely with Finance and Treasury, to ensure accurate provision of management and statutory reporting for the Group’s special purpose vehicles.

Here’s what it means for YOU:

• 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• A 35-hour working week
• 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And you get these Red-Hot Rewards from day one!

The Role in a nutshell…

• Producing timely and accurate management accounts for securitisation special purpose vehicles, including preparation of monthly ‘Control files’, preparation and posting of journals, completion of reconciliations
• Where appropriate, supporting the CB PLC and VMUK PLC securitisation reporting
• Working closely with Structured Funding Treasury team to review mid-month distribution files
• Producing IFRS compliant statutory accounts for special purpose vehicles
• Liaising with external and internal auditors in relation to statutory accounts
• Investigating ad hoc queries and helping to assist broader Management Reporting project goals

There are a few essentials you need to bring…

• ICAS or equivalent qualification (or working towards)
• IFRS accounting knowledge
• Knowledge and experience of the design and operation of internal controls in financial services organisations
• Experience in management reporting and journal posting
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to investigate data issues

The following would be brilliant...but not essential…

• Financial / Treasury product knowledge
• Experience preparing statutory accounts and liaising with auditors
• Experience in source system booking models and system investigation

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the ‘There are a few essentials you need to bring’ section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live A Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Inclusion at Virgin Money

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It’s good for you, it’s good for us and it’s amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We’d love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at careers@virginmoney.com.

Now the legal bit…
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we’ll need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If you’re successful securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. This includes a credit and criminal record check, as well 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.

If the role is part of the Senior Manager and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we’ll ask for 6 years' of regulatory references and once in role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.