Reconciliations Manager

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to deliver excellent customer service, use clear and confident communication to manage expectations and demonstrate a positive approach in supporting the team to deliver their objective? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

Finance Operations is part of the wider group Finance team, responsible for all transactional finance activities, including accounts payable and receivable, cash and bank administration, corporate and procurement cards and the corporate contracts that support colleagues across the whole HM Treasury Group.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

1. Line Management of the Reconciliations function, people and processes, ensuring work is prioritised to business need and report on monthly Key Performance Indicators for both internal and Central Government requests.
2. Completion and submission of the departmental Debt returns and the quarterly VAT returns for the HM Treasury Group.
3. Transmit the daily BACs payment runs for supplier payments and provide support in approving payment runs in line with the monthly schedule provided by the Accounts Payable Manager.
4. Maintain the groups Fixed Asset register, completing monthly reconciliation of the capital accounts and posting of depreciation costs.
5. Administration of the groups bank accounts, actioning change requests with our in-house administration team, our banking provider and the Government Banking service.

Qualification:

AAT Level 3 – fully/part qualified or equivalent experience and prepared to study to fully qualified.

Ideally you will have experience in a transactional finance environment, enjoy working as part of a team and feel passionate about customer facing support. You will also approach issues in a positive and methodical manner, making the best use of available resources and considering value for money.

The team offers a professional, encouraging and fun environment with a focus on problem solving and operational excellence, providing opportunities to develop technical and non-technical skills.

About You

The successful candidate will have the ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships for effective management of service delivery and improvement. You will think creatively to solve complex problems whilst meeting the needs of the customer and the business. You’ll be able to demonstrate an understanding of transactional and financial reporting standards and implementing process improvements. Lastly you will have experience of working with the Oracle ERP or similar financial system.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk