Job Description

You will assist the Deputy Group Treasurer in the delivery of the Group's funding strategy. You will be accountable for delivering support in the management of external banking, investor and credit relationships, responsible for the annual ratings review process and the delivery of timely and accurate management information on Treasury activities.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the Deputy Group Treasurer in the development and delivery of the funding plan. Specific responsibility for the preparation of debt prospectuses, the annual MTN program update, the finalization of bank loan facilities, and ensuring that all compliance reporting occurs on schedule.
• Support discussions with banks and investors to agree appropriate terms, structures and pricing for potential bank loans and debt capital market activity, analyzing proposals and producing counterproposals.
• Monitoring of the ancillary business revenue streams to relationship banks as well as the quality of service received for both the production of relationship review materials and to ensure that the group receives best value from these relationships.
• Analysis of alternative funding solutions including hedging strategies, solvency capital, IFRS and liquidity impacts.
• Monitor and report on developments in the bond and bank markets covering pricing, structure, term and bank performance indicators, providing recommendations for actions by Phoenix.
• Build investor relationships, planning marketing strategy and execution of fixed income road shows including responsibility for the production of Investor Relations market materials.
• Provide analyses of existing and potential bond investors and their objectives and concerns and investor trading patterns, recommending appropriate developments of the debt marketing strategy and its execution and ensuring that management is fully prepared for investor meetings.
• The production of Capital Market Investor Relations reports and bank relationship review materials.
• Support the management of credit rating relationships with responsibility for the planning of the annual ratings review process, ensuring the production of ratings review materials and ratings pack as well as preparation of ad-hoc ratings meetings and the financial and capital models.
• Preparation of papers and presentations for rating agencies and Boards, including peer comparisons.
• Transfer pricing policy updates and ensure that all new loans comply with the group transfer pricing policy.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• You will be an effective communicator both verbally and written, both external and internal, with the ability to recognize communication styles and adapt to enable delivery of objectives.
• You can balance competing priorities on different pieces of work and you are comfortable with defined and tight timescales.
• You have the ability to influence decisions across the organization teams where priorities and interests are often conflicting.
• You have a genuine work ethic with emphasis on professionalism and discipline.
• A proactive thinker who also has the ability to be operative in reactive situations.
• You are confident in your decision making ability and you provide flexible thinking and you are comfortable with multiple perspectives.
• You are a collaborator who isn’t afraid to question or challenge.
• In addition to quantitative analysis, you are a subjective thinker with analytical ability to pick out relevant information and draw conclusions and interpretations from generally qualitative data.
• You have the ability to not only produce reports but also to analyze data and draw conclusions.
• You are flexible in your approach, willing to adapt, and have ambition to learn.
• An approachable team player, particularly within a small team a “one team” attitude is important.