Senior Finance Assistant

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Job description

Would you enjoy helping create a dynamic culture focussed on client service?

Could you help us build our business as we endeavour to shape the future of Financial Planning?

The role

You'll provide analysis, insight and control to effectively deliver liquidity and cash management responsibilities whilst ensuring that financial controls are developed and maintained to meet internal and regulatory requirements.

In addition, you'll support the production of external disclosures including both the annual Pillar 3 disclosure and Responsible Business Report.

The role is ideally suited to someone studying for a professional qualification (ACCA/CIMA) and can demonstrate that they have the necessary technical, literate and numerical skills and experience.

What you'll be doing

• Supporting the management of SPW's Capital Management Framework

• Supporting with the production and annual update of the ICARA in accordance with the Investment Firms Prudential Regime ("IFPR")

• Delivering planning and forecasting activities related to the cash management function, ensuring supply of inputs are proactively managed and outputs produced to a high standard in a timely manner

• Reviewing and monitoring regulatory rules to ensure that the internal control framework is fully compliant, and that associated documentation and processes are updated to reflect changes.

• Managing and monitoring cash balances and report on the firm's liquidity position (intra-day and daily) and production of cash flow forecasting

• Producing monthly capital and liquidity management information for presentation to internal committees, including monitoring of early warning indicators and key performance indicators

• Producing FCA regulatory returns

• Supporting various ad hoc projects as and when required

• Producing the responsible Business greenhouse emission data for external publication.

Your qualifications & experience

• Knowledge of FCA capital and liquidity regime applicable to investment firms i.e. IFPR, is desirable

• Highly numerate with experience in a financial / analytical discipline

• Excellent planning and organisational skills, specifically the ability to prioritise and process numerous tasks simultaneously and deliver at pace to meet tight deadlines and with a high degree of accuracy

• Ability to use own initiative, whilst also being a valuable team player.

• Ability to produce accurate work within agreed timescales/deadlines.

• Personal drive and resilience to deal with work volumes efficiently

You belong here

At Schroders Personal Wealth, we welcome all. All colours, cultures, genders, beliefs, religions, ages, people.

We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us meet our ambitions.

We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Schroders Personal Wealth is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact and reach their potential.

Work in a way that works for you

When it comes to flexible working, we'll do our best to accommodate your needs with our flexible working policy. Please enquire in your interview.

What we'll give you

You can expect a career that's full of opportunity and support to help you develop. We offer a competitive total reward package, which means you share in the success you help create.

• A market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

• An additional 4% of your annual salary in a Flexible benefits package that you can select and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction or take as cash.

• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays.

• An incentive scheme, based on the company's performance and your contribution to it.

About us

Schroders Personal Wealth combines over 400 years of expertise from Lloyds Banking Group and Schroders plc, two leading British companies partnering to bring financial planning services to more people in the UK.

Our focus is on the personal relationship we develop with our customers, underpinned by leading edge technology, multi-channel customer reach and global investment expertise.

We aim to become a top UK financial planning business within five years. Would you like to be part of making this possible?

Join us

Does this sound like a role that you'd like to know more about? If like us, you're more motivated by customers than by targets, and you'd thrive in a culture that is values and client led - then we'd love to hear from you.