Treasury Accountant

Nomad Foods is a leading frozen foods company with annual revenues of approximately €3 billion. The Group has built a global portfolio of best-in-class food companies and iconic brands within the frozen food category. Our well-known brands include Birdseye, Findus, igloo, Aunt Bessie’s and Goodfella’s. The Group’s Head Office is located in Woking.

The Group Treasury Team operates through a clearly defined front-office and back-office structure, supported by a dedicated treasury accounting and reporting function. The treasury team embraces a flexible Hybrid working model, typically attending the office 2-3 days per week to promote effective collaboration and face-to-face interaction with other team members.

The role will be responsible for the financial accounting and reporting of all Treasury activities including debt, CCIRS, IRS, cash, FX and related areas. Its purpose is to enhance visibility and understanding of the financial impact arising from Treasury operations at a Group Level, while centralising and improving efficiency of all technical treasury accounting processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ownership of both forecast and actual accounting processes, alongside the delivery of insightful variance analysis.
• Developing recommendations to mitigate financial volatility and unlock further financial value.
• Providing greater level of understanding and reporting (including forecast vs actual variance analysis) of financial impacts at a Nomad group (and individual entity level) resulting from Treasury activities.
• Helping to drive financial benefit for Nomad via clear treasury and derivative accounting process and policy (including cash flow hedge reserve and hedge accounting).
• Primary contact point/treasury lead for PwC relationship in relation to all treasury activity.
• Ownership and implementation of all changes to treasury activities as a result of regulatory change.
• Clear leadership and clarity to the Nomad Group on all treasury accounting activities.
• Ensure compliance with Group Treasury (and accounting) policies.
• Analysis of the treasury monthly P&L including the drivers of interest charge, foreign exchange gains and losses.
• Preparation of Group Interest Budget and forecasts and reporting on variance analysis.
• Ownership of all treasury related external reporting, including periodic disclosures and year end process.
• Co-responsibility for Treasury SOX RACM (with treasury manager).
• Provide accounting support and advice to Assistant Group Treasurer on all treasury activities.
• Preparation of all month and periodic derivative valuations / hedge effectiveness calculations.
• Understanding and alignment of accounting for all FX exposures of the Nomad Group.
• Ownership of Group hedge accounting policy (and associated hedge effectiveness documentation).
• Support for debt transfer pricing policy and other ad hoc modelling.
• Ownership of several aspects of process change and driving improvements within the Treasury function.
• Ownership of the off-market CCIRS model and liaison with external audit advisers.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Graduate AMCT qualified or studying.
• +3 years Post qualified ACA/ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent).
• Good knowledge and understanding of IFRS and hedge accounting.
• Working knowledge of SEC reporting and SOX control environment.
• Experience of SAP or other consolidation reporting system.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to take on additional tasks and projects.
• Team focused.

Desirable:

• Bloomberg ION/Reval Refinitiv ION/Reval S4 Hannah360T trading platform.