Assistant Treasury Accountant

Your Role

As an Assistant Treasury Accountant, you will be part of a highly dedicated and professional team, which is responsible for delivering the highest quality of service to an internationally dedicated client base. The main purpose of your role will be to provide assistance to the Group Treasury Accountant in the administration, reporting and compliance of both departmental and company functional related undertakings.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the Group Treasury Accountant on updating daily bank balances, monitoring and actioning treasury emails, dealing with operational and finance department queries, and cash flow ‘actuals’.
• Coordinating with contacts at our joint venture company to ensure timely payment of haulage costs.
• Processing bank charge invoices and matching on Accounts Payable ledger.
• Downloading bank statements and uploading to Unit 4, reconciling and chasing for un-reconciled items.
• Providing support with weekly payment runs, including posting manual payments, direct debits, cross currency and cross company journals.
• Providing support during auditing and year-end, gathering payment evidence and approval support.
• Maintaining a weekly task list, listing open projects and weekly progress made.
• Providing monthly balance sheet reconciliation for Treasury related control accounts.
• Providing cover for the Group Treasury Accountant to gather receipt forecast data from the Credit Controllers, collate and update the cash flow forecast.

You will be a professional and pro-active Assistant Treasury Accountant who understands the crucial importance of effective communication and is willing to assist others who may not have the level of specialised knowledge in this field.

• Experience within a multi currency finance department required, preferably within the Transport industry
• Good knowledge and understanding of MS Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel
• Ability to problem solve
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, and able to work as an effective team member
• Ability to organise work well under pressure and prioritise a demanding workload.

Who are we?

We are P&O Ferrymasters, and we work with some of the largest companies in the world to make sure that their goods get to where they need to on time and efficiently. We have locations across Europe and the Northern Mediterranean and our routes cover road, rail, and sea.
We operate from over 20 locations in 13 countries and work with some of the best-known global household names. We are a part of DP World who are one of the largest global logistics companies in the world; at any one time 10% of all shipping containers in the world are being shipped by DP World. We are proud to lead the future of logistics to help enable global trade in the 21st century and beyond.

We offer

P&O Ferrymasters offers a competitive package in line with the seniority of the position. Salary will be dependent on experience of the successful candidate.

Other benefits include Company pension, P&O Ferries travel discounts, and an Employee Assistance Scheme, backed by a wellbeing programme along with opportunities for personal and professional training and development. We also offer a benefits platform including a range of voluntary health insurances, cycle to work, and retail discounts.

Time to act!

Do you have what we’re looking for? And does this sound like the perfect opportunity for you? 
We hope so – in which case, now’s the time to let us know! Please apply with your CV and covering letter as soon as possible to recruitment@pofm.com. We look forward to hearing from you….