Treasury Accounts Assistant

Quintain Overview:

Quintain is an award-winning mixed-use property developer and most famous for Wembley Park, one of Europe’s largest and most exciting transformation projects, where we have already delivered 6,000 homes, shops, offices, restaurants, hotels and cultural venues as well as supporting a growing community of residents and workers.

This world-famous north west London neighbourhood will be the UK’s largest single site of Build to Rent homes on completion and now boasts over 3,600 apartments operated by Quintain Living. Our exceptional Build to Rent homes span eight unique developments. The benefits of renting with Quintain Living includes utilities set up and ready to go, lifestyle-led amenity spaces, app-based tenancy management, resident events and a 24-hour service.

At Quintain we operate in accordance with our five company values:
Creative, People-First, Pioneering, Sustainable and Proud and the associated behaviours foster a sense of respect, awareness and belonging across the business.

A central member of the Treasury function, with responsibility for ensuring payments are made accurately and on time, whilst providing an efficient and responsive administrative service for all banking and finance interactions. The group processes thousands of payments every year, which need to be managed both accurately and efficiently. The role will act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day banking matters, ensuring that transactions are processed accurately, controls are maintained, and banking records remain up to date.

The candidate will be an integral member of the Treasury team alongside the Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury and the Assistant Treasurer, helping to manage cash resources (debt, equity and income), ensuring all debt facilities are compliant and maintaining good financial risk management. Quintain has £1.1bn total debt facilities and this role will provide the opportunity to be involved across our financing transactions.

The individual will also work closely with the Investment and Corporate Finance team (particularly for new lending, loan reporting and business plan forecasting) as well as the wider group finance function.

• Review all banking platforms daily, prepare bank reconciliations for all bank accounts, and ensure cash transactions are accurately recorded and posted to the accounting system in a timely manner.
• Working with the Accounts Payable team to process all Faster payments, CHAPS payments, international payments, Inter Account Transfers, BACS Direct and Domestic Bacs payments through online banking platforms (Bank of Scotland and Barclays) by close of business, ensuring sufficient supporting documentation is saved for payment approvers and audit trail purposes.
• Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day banking queries and requests, investigating and resolving issues promptly and efficiently.
• Monitoring of bank mandates to ensure an up-to-date position is maintained.
• Provide bank account administration support, including the opening of new bank accounts, setup of new users on banking platforms, coordination of account closures, and management of account amendments as required.
• Maintain interest accrual schedules, prepare and post quarterly interest accrual journals and prepare interest accrual balance sheet reconciliations for the quarterly group management accounts.
• Maintain and update the summary schedule of Quintain’s debt facilities across the group.
• Assist with ad-hoc information requests from the wider business and external auditors.
• Assist with treasury projects, process improvements, and other treasury-related activities as required.
• Assist in the preparation of lender compliance reporting, including the Quarterly Management Report preparation.
• Assist with the monthly cashflow report
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• Undertake additional relevant duties which fall under the general scope of the role, as directed by your Manager, raising any issues with capacity so they can be properly managed.
• Participate in the full year and half year Performance Development Review process as reviewer and reviewee, meeting the…