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In this newly created hire, the incoming Treasury Associate will assist the Treasury Manager implement the wider Cash Management and Treasury strategy.

Key Priorities

• Support the maintenance of a comprehensive knowledge base for Treasury operations, documenting best practices and specialized processes to assist the team with complex operational matters.
• Stay informed about industry regulations and best practices in the custodian sector, assisting in the identification and analysis of process improvements.
• Contribute to improving the efficiency of Treasury operations by supporting process enhancements, automation initiatives, and technological advancements.
• Assist in daily cash positioning and short-term liquidity forecasting to ensure accurate financial management and timely settlement of client transactions.
• Help manage the client payment process, ensuring payments are processed accurately and on time, while maintaining controls to minimise errors and delays.
• Support the identification and reporting of operational and financial risks within Treasury functions, contributing to the development of strategies to mitigate such risks.
• Assist with managing collateral and liquidity management processes to ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Participate in training activities, staying up to date with industry best practices and regulatory changes to help maintain operational excellence.
• Assist in maintaining relationships with external parties such as clients, auditors, counterparties, and banking providers, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Required Skills & Experience

• A basic understanding of Treasury operations, including cash management, liquidity forecasting, and securities lending.
• Familiarity with industry regulations and best practices in financial services.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to accurately process financial transactions.
• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• A proactive and eager approach to learning and development within Treasury operations.
• Proficiency with relevant financial systems and software tools is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work effectively within a team and with external stakeholders.
• A positive attitude towards problem-solving and process improvement.
• Relevant industry qualifications (e.g., CISI, IOC, or equivalent) are desirable but not essential

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus discretionary annual bonus & annual pay review
• Work Abroad Policy for up to 15 days per year
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional well-being day
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Pension scheme up to 10% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private health care via BUPA
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Variety of travel to work schemes

Company benefits are provided on completion of either six months service, or a successful probation period whichever is sooner.

Entitlement outlined above is in respect of full-time entitlement, and will be provided to part-time workers on a prorate basis in accordance with the relevant scheme rules.

All benefits are subject to rules of the scheme and associated provider. The Company in its sole and absolute discretion reserves the right to discontinue, vary or amend any of the aforementioned benefits.

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

We appreciate that from time to time, recruitment agencies will have speculative CVs that they may wish to submit to our Talent Acquisition team in relation to a specific role.

To avoid any ambiguity around fees, please note that speculative CVs received by Close Brothers, that have not been authorised in advance, by us, will be ineligible for an agency fee. Thank you.

Winterflood Business Services (WBS) is a business to business (B2B) platform provider whose award-winning service has seen us grow to over £15bn AUA with an expanding client list. Our highly skilled and experienced team is dedicated to providing the standards our clients rightly demand.

Our aim is to help solve client problems and ease their regulatory and administrative burden with secure, integrated, and bespoke end-to-end solutions to achieve their investment objectives. Execution quality and excellent service are at the core of our business, all set out in our service level agreements for full transparency.

The WBS service is provided through our EOS platform, which is a proprietary system developed by our in-house development team. EOS is built using the latest technologies and is based on micro-service architecture, making the platform easy to scale and deploy new functionality. We are also market innovators, capable of recognising unfilled needs and developing products to suit our customers’ needs and changing regulatory requirements.

We became a separate division of Winterflood Securities in 2010, in response to demand from clients who were looking for ‘whole of market access and ‘custody services’. Our strategy remains to continue to invest in people, process, and technology to allow us to scale for the growth in our existing business, as well as taking on new clients

Private medical

Discounted health checks

Stakeholder pension contribution

Gym discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Save As You Earn scheme

Purchase additional holiday

At Close Brothers, we are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our employees. Our donations continue to increase year on year thanks to our fundraising efforts and matched giving schemes to our employees’ favourite charities. We continue to seek out new ways to give as a group and to help employees who give their valuable time and money to causes close to them.

To find out more detail please follow the link below:

https://www.closebrothers.com/charity.

Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose, and we recognise that to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term, we also have a responsibility to help address the social, economic, and environmental challenges facing our business, employees, and customers, now and into the future.

To find out more detail please follow the link below:

https://www.closebrothers.com/sustainability.