Contract: 9 months fixed-term contract, full time


Location:
London (hybrid-working)
Closing Date: 19 August 2024

About the role

As a Treasury and Tax Assistant, you will provide assistance on cash management, internal controls, risk management, and related analysis and recommendations. Assisting indirect tax compliance for the team, including preparing and submitting tax returns, is a key part of the role. You will also provide assistance with banking issues and forecasting, as well as e-commerce setup, banking administration, and bank KYC management. You will be a key player in developing new ways of managing tax compliance as the group continues to grow.

• Experience with preparing and maintaining a weekly group cash forecast.
• Ability to liaise with other Finance colleagues and the wider business to make sure that inflows and outflows are tracked and support the preparation of the budget.
• Experience with daily reporting on cash balances and feeding this into relevant internal reports.
• Daily tracking of currency exchange rates and trends.
• Weekly/monthly bank reconciliations for all accounts.
• Assisting on KYC management with our banks and helping to maintain good banking relationships.
• Reviewing FX variances at month end, posting FX gains and losses and providing commentary in relation to month end cash balances.

About you

• Qualified or part-qualified in ACA, CIMA or ACCA
• Proactivity and desire to learn and strive for continuous improvement
• Excellent reasoning skills along with strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to operate effectively and prioritise in a busy corporate role
• Ability to communicate with and work closely with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong analysing and problem-solving skills
• Being an Associate (or working towards a qualification) of the Association of Corporate Treasurers is desirable

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation.

As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including generous annual leave, private health insurance, pension scheme, regular social events, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, free access to Trinity examinations and continuous training and development, plus more.

Our commitment

Trinity College London is an equal opportunities employer and our talented people come from all walks of life. Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse. We encourage all applicants to let us know if you need a little extra help with your application, want an alternative way to put in an application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK.

We are committed to the safeguarding and protection of the children and young people that we work with. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the organisation. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check.

Trinity promotes equality of opportunity and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), w e select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge.

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