Job Description

The role

The team’s common goal of managing accounting volatility for the Group involves numerous and varied tasks. A new joiner to the team would learn these as part of their career progression within the team.

•             Building partnering across Treasury to understand upcoming business and any accounting volatility implications

•             Managing volatility through an understanding of available risk and available hedge accounting approaches

•             Successfully perform hedge accounting through identification, documentation, effectiveness testing and accounting for tailored hedge accounting packages

•             Bringing to life the hedge accounting impact in GCT management reporting and the Group’s statutory reporting

•             Demonstrating compliance with the required accounting and risk frameworks and to other interested parties (e.g. external audit)

•             Be able to continuously challenge processes and implement efficiency initiatives

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Crucial skills and qualifications to succeed in the role

•             Ability to work and communicate well in a team

•             Good knowledge of risk, banking products and the accounting for financial instruments

•             Technical understanding of hedging accounting under IAS 39, and other elements

•             Qualified accountant

•             Intermediate/Advanced Excel