Assistant Treasury Accountant in London

Our Head Office department is in the heart of Piccadilly and occupies the 5th & 6th floor of our beautiful flagship store. This central London location offers so much to explore including restaurants, bars, cultural sites, shopping and more, and only a short walk from the Green Park Tube Station and plenty of bus stops.

To maintain appropriate accounting records and controls to ensure all treasury activity is accounted for and sales are correctly stated. Ensure cash shrinkage is appropriately identified, challenged and mitigated. Understand and assist report creation on our cashflow activity/requirements, continually drive improvements in liquidity and returns on cash held.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support and reconcile daily cash and credit card transactions across retail and hospitality sites, including monitoring and reporting cash and card variances, shrinkage, shortages, and chargebacks, while maintaining robust financial controls.
• Assist with cash and card position reporting, cash flow forecasting, and foreign exchange updates.
• Review bank, cash, and card postings to ensure reconciliations are accurately completed within the financial system for Treasury Accountant approval.
• Maintain account holder records and ensure timely clearance of related customer accounts.
• Manage credit card commission postings, reporting, and forecasting, with the ability to analyse and explain site-level variances.
• Deputise for the Treasury Accountant by supporting, developing, and coaching the Cash Office team and key stakeholders as required.
• Provide support for ad hoc treasury activities, reporting requirements, and audit processes.

Role Specific Criteria (Experience/Behaviours/Technical Ability)

We expect the successful candidate to have the following skills and experience:

• ACCA, CIMA or ACA part qualified or AAT qualified
• Prior treasury/cash management experience in retail
• Intermediate Excel skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to drive change across departments.
• Experience of leading a team / staff management
• Use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience desirable but not essential.
• You are expected to have a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Impact

• Demonstrates good stakeholder relationships which builds stronger trust and two-way conversation.
• Questions and listens to understand the interactions between stakeholders and themselves, before providing recommendations for changes.
• Makes sense of complex situations and provides clear communication, training material, presentations and plans.
• Actively demonstrates curiosity about the business, its goals, and operational challenges.
• Pragmatic problem solver and innovator who is prepared to be hands-on and deliver solutions with gravitas and offer and identify opportunities for improvements.

Effectiveness

• Excellent personal and project organization skills, with an ability to work to agreed timeframes and at pace, highlighting risks, priorities, and solutions.
• Experience in Treasury systems and an ability to track costs and spends against budgets and reconciliations.
• Experience and ability to deliver key communication and structured updates to a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience of working in an agile and dynamic working environment.
• Familiar with the urgency/importance matrix, and impact/effort matrix, and be able to plot projects on both to help justify prioritization.

Why Work For Us:

• Competitive salary
• A generous store and restaurant discount of up to 40%
• 25 days holidays (excluded bank holidays) and an extra day off for your birthday
• A fantastic subsidised staff restaurant which uses Fortnum's ingredients
• A range of opportunities to develop and grow personally and professionally
• Excellent pension scheme

We are committed to developing your career and nurturing your talent, regardless of age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation. We respect and embrace each other's differences, to create a truly inclusive environment. In the last year alone, our people have been recognised and celebrated, winning awards for their outstanding contributions to Retail, Technology, Global Hospitality & Tourism, Visual Merchandising & Display, Customer Service and Local Community Awards.