Senior Treasury Analyst

Established in 2000, Octopus is a group of businesses investing in people, ideas and industries that change the world. You can learn more about us at octopusgroup.com.

At Octopus Investments, we’re experts in financial services and were also a certified B Corp, meaning we care as much about the impact of our investments as the returns they generate. Today we manage more than 12.4* billion on behalf of retail and institutional investors.

• Funds Under Management data includes undrawn commitments, funds under advisory mandates, funds monitored and the Octopus Cash service as of 31st December 2021

We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious Senior Treasury Analyst to join our growing finance team. The Treasury Team sits within the Finance Centre of Expertise and is responsible for the groups cash management (including payments and bank reconciliations) and banking relationships.

Reporting to the Treasury Manager, this role requires an individual who is highly organised, has good attention to detail, capable of both dealing with multiple workstreams and running defined processes efficiently and autonomously.

The team you will be working with are busy and diverse. To excel in this role, it is essential that you are proactive, keen to learn, focused, self-motivated, and able to work under deadlines.

The overall Finance team has around 60 people working across a diverse number of business areas. This role will offer terrific career development opportunities including the ability to improve your management skills for future progression.

What you will be doing

• Cash payments, ledger postings and bank reconciliations for key entities in the group.
• Day to day relationship management with core banking counterparts.
• Responsible for the opening and closing of all bank accounts within the group.
• Maintaining bank mandates and ensuring these are regularly updated, approved and communicated to the banks.
• Maintenance of group bank account masterfile and regular review to ensure changes and updates are reflected on a timely basis.
• Oversight of administrators control and review reports, ensuring they are aligned with the Octopus policies.
• Dealing with bank account queries from the business taking ownership of requests and dealing with stakeholders within agreed SLAs.
• Assist with due diligence on banking counterparts.
• Support on ad-hoc projects and audit requests.
• Suggest changes to, and where relevant implement, control improvements ensuring that Octopus operates in a robust financial control environment.

But its not just about responsibilities, its about how you operate and your behaviours.

• Embody the Octopus values being bold, straightforward and helpful.
• Energised and ready to roll up your sleeves.
• Needs to be able to listen, understand and collaborate across all levels of the organisation.
• Should have a bias to action be able to deal with high volumes of work and multiple workstreams.
• Progressive ideas, and resilience to implement them.

• Proven experience working within a Treasury Team
• Have built relationships with banking counterparts
• Ability to meet strict deadlines and work to teams SLAs
• Demonstrable track record of improving processes and controls
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management
• The successful candidate will need to demonstrate good interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build relationships within their team and across departments
• The successful candidate will need to have an understanding and willingness to get into the detail as required

Systems Experience

• Proficient in Excel (Vlookups)
• Kyriba (Desirable)
• Banking portals (HSBC, Natwest, Barclays) (Desirable)
• Competent IT Skills

Additional Information

What we offer

Our Values

At Octopus we dont just focus on what we do but also how we do it. Everyone shares our values of being straightforward, helpful and bold.

Were committed to creating a diverse and inclusive employee experience for all. We promote equal opportunities for growth and development regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or socio-economic background. We believe strongly that teams are at their best when every member of the team feels safe to bring their whole self to work.