Manager - Accounting Advisory Services, Treasury

Location: London

Capability: Audit

Experience Level: Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: AAS

Contract type: Permanent

We have an exciting opportunity for a Manager to join our rapidly expanding Accounting Advisory Services (AAS), Treasury team. Our team is focused on serving the world's leading Corporate Treasuries with their most complex business challenges. The team offer deep treasury expertise in financial products and markets, risk management, systems, governance, valuation and accounting. We work closely with other high impact functions within KPMG such as Audit, Risk Consulting and Management Consulting to provide a wide range of treasury advisory services.

As a Manager, you will liaise directly with your clients responding to a range of technical queries, drawing both on your own expertise and identifying when additional input is required from more senior colleagues. Your role will also include business development activities, contributing to the team’s growth and success. You will lead teams and supervise the work of junior staff. You will also have performance management responsibilities for a small number of employees.

We are firmly committed to supporting your career development and will provide you with the breadth and depth of experience to facilitate this and support you in identifying areas of specialism.

• Undertaking reviews and implementations of Treasury strategies, policies, target operating models, cash management processes, and technology and systems.

• Conducting risk management assessments including foreign exchange, interest rate, credit and commodities.

• Providing specialist support to external audit teams, including derivative valuations, hedge accounting, and financial instrument classifications.

• Conducting internal audits on treasury functions ranging from FTSE100 to Housing Associations and Charities, including benchmarking.

• Providing technical support on accounting and regulatory change projects such as IFRS 9, new UK GAAP, EMIR and Basel III.

• Assisting with delivering Treasury advisory projects, ranging from strategy reviews, target operating models, and audit support, including providing input to larger, multi-disciplinary teams.

• Assisting senior management in providing clients with advice on technical treasury and accounting issues.

• Assisting in the preparation of presentations, thought leadership collateral and marketing material.

• Supporting the business development of KPMG’s IFRS 9 client proposition/offering, including responses to IFRS 9 client proposals, with a primary focus on Corporates, Listed and Regulatory.

• Performance managing junior team members, ensuring that you are having rich development conversations that supports their growth and career progression.

Technical core competencies required for the role

Our Global Technical core competencies provide clarity and consistency of expectations to ensure the minimum technical requirements are being met by level to drive quality, which is fundamental to achieving our ambition to become the most trusted and trustworthy firm. The relevant competencies for this role are:

• Technical knowledge: Understands relevant technical accounting and financial reporting standards, regulations and accounting literature. Exhibits and stays current on appropriate industry and specialised knowledge.

• Technology skills: Uses firm-approved tools and innovative technology solutions to increase quality, productivity, and data insights.

• Engagement management: Manages and executes the engagement, including project management, team management and remediation of deviations from the plan and timeline.

• Documentation: Completes documentation demonstrating an unwavering focus on quality.

People & Culture

• Embrace and embed our culture ambition of high challenge, high support which is grounded in Our Values.

• Operate with a curious and sceptical mindset ensuring that this is embedded in your everyday work.

• Actively lead and embed a coaching culture to get the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropriate.

• Be accountable, professional and act in the public interest, working for the benefit of shareholders and wider society.

• Be inclusive and embrace the opportunity to work with other teams across the firm in an integrated way. Have a sense of community, purpose and fun.

Experience and Knowledge Requirements

• Experience working within an accounting advisory function of a professional services firm/corporate business sector. (E)

• Experience working in a Corporate Treasury function with good technical knowledge of financial instruments, risk management, treasury strategies, systems, governance and controls. (E)

• Sound technical knowledge of IAS 39 and IFRS 9 standards, and their practical application. (E)

• Strong knowledge of accounting for financial instruments under IFRS, and UK GAAP. (E)

• Knowledge and experience of US GAAP. (D)

• Experience of managing teams, coaching and mentoring junior staff. (E)

• Proven track record of managing and delivering high quality, complex projects with stakeholder deliverables. (E)

• Business development experience with new and existing clients. (E)

Behavioural Attributes and Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication, and presentation skills; able to communicate complex matters in a clear and compelling manner.

• Highly effective stakeholder management and relationship building skills; credible and confident with stakeholders at all levels.

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail; able to analyse and interpret complex technical information.

• Effective problem solver; makes pragmatic and logical decisions, drawing on own and others’ technical accounting expertise to provide high quality solutions.

• Self-driven and resilient; able to thrive in a high-pressure environment.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification from a recognised accountancy body. (E)

E - Essential, D - Desirable

Audit is the largest of our UK practices. Some of the world’s biggest companies rely on us to provide independent insight, challenge and expertise, so the work we undertake affects investment decisions, inspires confidence in public sector expenditure and supports our economic growth. Today, more than ever in disruptive times, audit is a function needed by society, and in the future, so we can capitalise, and grow. As part of the Audit team, you’ll be helping to build the confidence and trust that business and society need to thrive. We want to lead the conversation when it comes to shaping the future of the profession. And given the scale and variety of our audit engagements in both the UK and globally, we are well placed to create change. If you share our commitment to achieving excellence and working to the highest audit standards, are a natural collaborator who values different perspectives and relishes the opportunity to develop and progress - then KPMG could be the place where you can thrive.