- Provide accountancy services to the Staff Pensions Finance Department, managing daily banking transactions, balancing statements and providing monthly and quarterly financial reports.
- Monitors liquidity requirements to ensure that adequate funds are retained to meet pension payments and other outgoings
- Prepares month cash flows for the Schemes. Ensure regulatory and legislative requirements are met.
- Ensures all transactions are processed through the accounting systems to ensure financial data is available when required for reporting purposes.
- Reviews expense payments to ensure they are line with scheme budgets and governance controls
- Performs daily, monthly and quarterly reconciliations for all Schemes' bank accounts, in line with statutory requirements.
- Prepares/reviews regular and year end accruals for benefit payments and scheme expenses.
- Ensuring risks are defined and managed appropriately.
- This role has no direct reports.
- There are daily requirements involved in the role ensuring that the Trustee's main goal of ensuring member payments are made when requested is met.
- Working with the Finance Team and broader Trustee Executive team along with service providers/advisers/auditors, sharing knowledge and providing support where required in a timely and efficient manner.
- Highly organised with attention to detail, to ensure accuracy of outputs and maintenance of records and persistence to resolve queries.
- HND or equivalent in Finance/Business/Accountancy or be qualified by experience
- Must be able to use their initiative to solve problems, through their technical knowledge and experience, but also understand where queries must be escalated appropriately.
- Good interpersonal skills including the ability to develop strong working relationships and collaboration with other team members and key contacts.