Treasury Dealer in Cheshire, Warrington

United Utilities’ (UU) purpose is to deliver great water for a stronger, greener, and healthier Northwest. To achieve this, we need to carefully manage our financial resources and that’s where you come in. We’re looking for a motivated finance professional to join our Treasury team, helping us to make efficient investment and borrowing decisions to ensure we maintain appropriate levels of liquidity, whilst managing financial risk so we can keep investing in essential services for our customers and communities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Training on our daily cash dealing process, a critical business role managing multiple cash pools, in close contact with the group’s banks ensuring the UU Group stays liquid and makes essential payments to avoid default.
• Ensuring compliance with financial contracts, regulatory obligations, internal governance and treasury policies.
• Supporting debt issuance, hedging activity, and the group’s broader financing strategy, including opportunities to get involved in electricity and interest rate hedging.
• Conducting detailed financial risk analysis in areas such as liquidity and credit risk, preparing monthly and quarterly treasury management information packs and writing accurate, clear and concise reports for the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Treasury Committee and Audit & Risk Committee.
• Supporting management of relationships with the group’s insurance brokers, insurers and various bankers / money transmission providers.
• Learning to use and manage the various IT systems and applications used by the treasury team for cash management purposes and to support the wider treasury function.
• Supporting ad hoc treasury projects and investor relations activities.
• Following detailed, process-driven procedures within a well-controlled and monitored environment, with a focus on continuous improvement, efficiency, and innovation.

You will undertake a 3 month training programme when you first start, which will be predominantly office based, with lots of support to build your expertise and confidence. This role offers strong development opportunities to explore different areas of treasury and finance, fostering business wide collaboration and personal growth.

What we’re looking for:

• Motivated, analytical finance professional with the below essential requirements:
• Educated to degree level.
• A UK accountancy qualification (CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
• UK experience within a top performing accountancy firm.
• Strong mathematical skills, excellent attention to detail, and a high level of accuracy.
• Good IT skills, with proven Excel experience (knowledge of macros and Power Query are a real advantage).
• The ability to analyse data insightfully and logically, telling a compelling financial story.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence and build credibility at senior levels.
• Resilience under pressure and strong prioritization skills to deliver high-quality results.
• A collaborative approach, balanced with the initiative to work independently.
• A keen interest in bringing efficiencies and innovation to existing processes.
• A willingness to study towards the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) exams – funding and support will be provided.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme (7% employee 14% employer contribution).
• Annual performance-related bonus of up to 10.5%.
• 26 days’ holiday rising to 30 with service, plus bank holidays.
• A wide range of private healthcare and wellbeing benefits.
• Opportunities for professional development.
• Hybrid working model: typically 3 days per week in the office, with more days in the office at first to support your initial embedment into the role.

Join us and help shape the financial strength that underpins our mission to deliver great water, for the long term, to our communities across the North West. Apply now to be part of a stronger, greener, healthier North West.