Head of Financial & Treasury Operations

Head of Financial & Treasury Operations
Hybrid full-time role
 

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Alfa is looking to recruit a Head of Financial & Treasury Operations as a Senior member of Alfa’s  Group Finance team. The successful applicant will hold overall responsibility for providing oversight and ownership of the day-to-day key financial controls and transactional processes across Alfa Finance globally.
Leading communication to the business in relation to back-office Finance activities. An agent of change, driving process improvement and efficiency across Finance.

Managing & controlling the financial and treasury operations across the Group. Ensuring the accurate and efficient production of both financial and non-financial information for both external and internal reporting. Safeguarding the companies assets through efficient management of working capital 

Key responsibilities/activities:
 

Controls framework:

• Implementing a strong controls framework across the Group, including US and APAC, and providing assurance to the Board on the effectiveness of those controls (Provision 29 of the Corporate Governance Code)

Treasury:

• Liaison with banks

• Ensuring sufficient liquidity to maintain operations

• Placing money on deposit to maximise interest returns

• Monitoring foreign currency exposure and making recommendations for reducing

• Executing foreign exchange transactions, spot and forwards

Process & Continuous Improvement:

• Leadership of projects which require operational guidance and system implementation rollout (working with Finance Information Systems)

• Acts as an agent of change, playing a key role in improving business processes

• Drive updates and improvements to accounting systems and processes

Workday - Effectiveness & Efficiency:

• Responsible for ensuring Workday is operating effectively and efficiently, and fit for business needs

• Owning the implementation of any necessary Workday process changes in conjunction with Finance Information Systems

Audit process:

• Liaison with the internal and external auditors as required

• Close liaison with the Group Reporting team throughout the half-year and year-end external reporting processes

Transactional Accounting:

• Sales invoicing process from contract creation in Workday through to generation of the invoice

• Accounts Receivable & cash collections

• Responsible for Cash Management aspects of Treasury, including Daily cash reporting

• Accounts Payable and related Procurement process

• Payment practice reporting

• Assist the Head of Tax with VAT returns, preparation of other corporate and payroll related tax calculations as required

Month-end process:

• Cost accruals

• Fixed assets

• Responsibility for processing month-end transactions and reconciliations

• Working with the Head of Group Reporting in presenting financial and non-financial reports to the CFO, other directors, stakeholders and board members

• Intercompany Accounting including reviewing of financial information provided by overseas finance teams

• Ownership of the balance sheet including understanding movements and forecasts and ensuring timely reconciliations

• Time recording oversight and completeness review on behalf of the business

• Ownership of and strong coordination across the month-end close procedures, ensuring timely completion and that the information produced is high quality

Cost control:

• Managing and monitoring finance cost centres and providing accurate forecasts of spend

• Responsible for London Office lease, Service Charge and Business rates

Other:

• Comply with the information security roles and responsibilities as set out in Finance roles

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Qualified Accountant with at least 5-8 years post qualification experience largely in industry

• Experience of managing a team, including those overseas/remote

• A sound understanding of accounting principles, the ability to carry out tasks collaboratively and autonomously and be highly organised with a keen eye for details

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities

• Track record of process improvement driven through strong utilisation of system capabilities

The following experience would be ideal, but not critical:

• Working for a professional services firm

• Working in the tech sector

• Working for a publicly listed company

• Exposure to Workday

• Exposure to Treasury operations

What we’ll do for you

• Support you in flexible hybrid

• 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible cultural days

• Pension contribution match up to 6%

• Provide private health insurance and access to private 24/7 online GP

• Support you with enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with family-friendly policies

• Provide Income protection

• Provide Life, disability and worldwide travel insurance

• Offer interest free loans of up to £10,000 after probation period

• Offer Gympass given access to a range of health and wellbeing gyms, classes and apps

About Alfa 

We bring our industry-leading software platform to the likes of Mercedes-Benz and CarMax, so they can do business globally. Supporting all types of auto, equipment and wholesale finance business, our software platform uses a modern technology stack to deliver proven functionality and performance. Our customers use Alfa Systems for the full lifecycle, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages complex leases and loans, in any region, language and currency in a highly available, high-throughput system.

Culture

Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building. We all enjoy the work-life balance and the great culture, with plenty of social activities organised by the company.