Group Treasury Manager

Role overview:

The Group Treasury Manager role is a key member of the Group Treasury function which is a new role that has arisen due to continued global expansion and internal promotion.

As Group Treasury Manager your responsibilities will include managing the Groups liquidity portfolio to enhance return at an appropriate level of risk. You will build strong working relationships with senior management and stakeholders internal and external across the Group. 

The Treasury Manager will support the Finance Transformation team on strategic projects to drive the efficiency and continuous improvement of Treasury.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the Groups liquidity to enhance return at an appropriate level of risk
• Management of the Group exposures to identify, review and optimise existing hedging strategies within the Group on currency and interest rate risk
• Establish and manage relationships with Group finance, tax, legal and other commercial departments as well as other stakeholders
• Assisting the Director of Group Treasury in maintaining and developing financial institution relationships for the Group.
• Work with local and international Treasury teams to ensure the Group Treasury policy is adhered to
• Supporting internal controls and process development
• Assist with ongoing improvements and technology solutions in treasury
• Reviewing Group wide consolidated cashflows and working capital analysis
• Support the production of the monthly Treasury Board report and quarterly Treasury Management Committee papers
• Support on financing projects in the Group

Skills/ Experience/ Knowledge needed:

• An AMCT qualification or similar
• Proven experience in treasury role in a large corporate
• Experience of using a TMS desirable
• Experience with working alongside and influencing senior stakeholders;
• Strong analytical skills required in order to identify and remediate risks
• Ability to investigate, understand and explain variances
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal required
• Ability to prioritise workloads to meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work under your own initiative
• Proficient in Microsoft Office – Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• A positive, flexible, enthusiastic and driven attitude

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

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