Treasury Accountant – Milton Keynes

Treasury Accountant – Milton Keynes

About The Role

SALARY: From £49,354 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full time, permanent – Working 35 hours per week

CLOSING DATE: 13/07/26 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

We’re looking for a Treasury Accountant to manage cash flow, liquidity, and treasury risks while ensuring strong financial controls and compliance.

This analytical, compliance‑focused role will be instrumental in delivering accurate cash reporting, optimising liquidity, and supporting sound financial decision‑making.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead daily treasury operations, ensuring timely cash reconciliations, payments and transaction monitoring.
• Manage the organisation’s short‑term liquidity position, optimising internal and external funding and maximising efficient cash utilisation.
• Review and approve daily trading activity, ensuring compliance with policies, risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Treasury, Controlling and Accounting teams to validate and challenge cash flow forecasts.
• Own the integrity of the “cost of money” P&L, maintaining accurate and up‑to‑date funding and interest inputs.
• Lead month‑end treasury accounting and reporting, delivering journals, accruals, variance analysis and clear commentary to stakeholders.
• Drive balance sheet integrity through preparation and review of reconciliations, ensuring issues are identified and resolved promptly.

What you’ll bring:

You’ll be a qualified accountant with strong treasury experience and a track record of operating in a controlled, fast‑paced environment.

You’ll have a delivery mindset, with a focus on accuracy, continuous improvement and driving effective financial and liquidity management.

Essential experience & skills

• Qualified accountant or working towards a UK qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACT or AAT).
• Experience within treasury or finance, ideally in financial services or banking.
• Strong understanding of cash management, treasury controls, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, with working knowledge of SAP or similar systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to support junior colleagues and work collaboratively.
• Analytical, detail‑oriented, and confident in problem solving.
• Solid knowledge of treasury operations, including cash management and bank file processing.

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
• Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance
• Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
• We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Equal Opportunities

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.

This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.