Financial Accountant (Treasury)

Swindon Support Office & Home Working

About the Pets at Home Vet Group

Pets at Home Vet Group has 440 practices, approximately 400 of which are operated as individual Joint Venture businesses. Over 400 practices operate under the Vet4Pets brand and the remainder are Companion Care. Our Joint Venture model is unique to the UK vet market and it offers ambitious vets an early route to practice ownership with professional support on financing, IT, People, Marketing and supplier relations. Each partner has full clinical freedom to do whatever they believe to be right for each individual patient, including using the products of their choice. The owner mentality drives superior performance compared to the typical company-owned model.

About the role

As a key member of the Finance team, reporting into the Head of Treasury, you will be the point of contact for the business regarding cash management, ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely services to our Joint Venture Companies and the Support Office as well as overseeing all accounting matters relating to Treasury. The position also offers the potential to play a significant role in the implementation and development of the new SAP accounting system.

Principal Accountabilities

• Manage liquidity across Support Office and Partnership bank accounts to ensure funds are available to meet day-to-day obligations and reporting to the parent company on a daily basis.

• Maintain and develop the cash flow forecasting model to provide short and medium term forecasts, working closely with the Financial Planning Department to ensure the forecasts are in line with the Business Plan.

• Development and the re-engineering of key Treasury related processes as part of the SAP rollout.

• Identifying process risks and ensuring adequate controls are in place to mitigate them.

• Oversee reconciliations on all bank accounts and ensuring all cash transactions have been recorded in accordance with the relevant accounting standard and Group accounting policy.

• Play a key role in the refinancing of our Joint Venture Companies following joint venture partner share sales.

• Manage the reporting and development of all Treasury KPIs.

• Provide analysis and support to the Head of Treasury in various ad hoc projects as required.

This role requires a qualified accountant (CIMA or equivalent) who can demonstrate post qualified experience working within a large organisation. Whilst experience of working within Treasury, or holding a relevant qualification would be a distinct advantage, an interest in Treasury will also be considered.

An enthusiastic and proactive approach is really important. This role involves working with over 400 practices in addition to collaborating with other teams. Getting to the right information quickly will require you to build successful working relationships, therefore strong communication and influencing skills are required. You will be able to demonstrate a track record of working across a wide range of stakeholders, offering support, guidance and coaching. A desire to learn and progress your career will come naturally to you.

This role will require both patience and resilience, working with a large number of practices can sometimes to be challenging, but in return, youll get to work in a great team with brilliant support. Change is pretty much a constant, so youre likely to enjoy managing change and working to tight deadlines. An ability to work with excel to an advanced level is also required.