Treasury Accountant

Join a dynamic corporate treasury team at an exciting time as the NATS treasury function evolves in support of our growth strategy to 2040. We are introducing a dedicated Treasury Accountant role to strengthen transparency, accuracy, and governance across our operations. This position will play a pivotal part in shaping the future of our treasury processes, ensuring robust risk management and compliance while driving innovation in reporting standards.

By embedding best‑in‑class controls and leveraging data‑driven insights, the role will support strategic decision‑making and enable the team to adapt to a rapidly changing financial landscape. With a debt portfolio of over £1bn and public profile as an issuer of corporate bonds, NATS has a number of high‑profile reporting and disclosure obligations. The role of Treasury Accountant will take responsibility for the production of high‑quality treasury reporting, both external and internal where relevant across the NATS group, to meet expectations of a wide variety of institutional and executive stakeholders.

The role will also handle all aspects of treasury's operational control environment. Robust controls are pivotal to the department's objective in managing financial risk and ensuring the group's available liquidity. Therefore in being accountable for treasury controls, the role will be expected to capture relevant data, monitor and review control effectiveness and develop a framework – in collaboration with the stakeholders across finance and the business – for continuous operational improvement to enhance the performance of the function.

The holder of this role will be the prime reporting interface between NATS Treasury and Group Financial Control, as well as providing significant input to stakeholders ranging from bondholders to the business planning team.

Given the nature of these relationships and deliverables, the role requires a high level of diligence, analytical and technical capability, appreciation of wider accounting and governance topics and effective communication skills. They will be expected to embody trusted business partner principles focussed on efficiency, collaboration and innovation, adopting core values associated with growth, control and challenge. Given the broad nature of this role, the holder of this position will also be expected to provide cover for back‑office activity and enquiries into transactional postings as required.

It will also contribute to ad hoc treasury projects, including the cost of capital workstream for each regulatory price control. This is an important role, the holder of which will be provided with opportunity for growth and broadening of experience, which could facilitate promotion to more senior roles within NATS Treasury.

Other responsibilities include:

• Annual report and accounts (and reporting) – Prepare and deliver high quality borrowings and financial instruments disclosure notes for the interim and annual report and accounts in line with the group reporting timetable, along with associated analysis and reporting, including submission of covenant compliance certification documentation to lenders, the annual presentation of results to investors and preparation of bank and credit rating annual results review materials.
• Audit delivery and oversight – Responsible for liaising with group auditors to coordinate accurate and timely delivery of all year‑end audit deliverables related to the treasury scope within the annual report and accounts, as well as with internal auditors (plus the wider NATS risk and assurance team) to ensure successful completion of internal audit reviews, recording and investigation of any findings and implementation of any recommended actions required.
• Cash flow reporting and forecasting – Responsible for group cash‑flow forecasting and reporting in line with monthly close timetable, ensuring completeness and accuracy of forecasting, collaborating with other areas of Finance as appropriate to assure data and apply critical challenge to forecasting assumptions. This remit includes the continuous improvement and evolution of upstream liquidity reporting,…