UK Cashier

Job description

UK Cashier

Salary - £24,000 – £31,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Location - Slough

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Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES® and UNCLE BEN’S®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

This opportunity has arisen in The UK Treasury Team due to associate retiring. The role is part of the UK Treasury Team managing and reports to the UK Tax and Treasury Director.

The role:

The role owns the daily and periodic operations of the cashier function for Mars UK entities including related accounting and controls. To support the Treasury Manager in continuous improvement of the cashier function.

The cashier manages the different processes and systems that allow payments/receipts to leave/enter the business. As all transactions ultimately end up within the bank, this is a business critical role. The associate must work within strict daily and periodic deadlines while ensuring all areas adhere to strict guidelines. The associate must work at a high-level of accuracy, whilst prioritising their tasks within the specific guidelines of the job. The associate will also have to be comfortable with a rapidly changing departmental environment and be willing to adjust working-practices, in order to continually improve on existing processes.

Controls are extremely important in a department that processes transactions at this level. The job holder must work with the Manager to monitor processes, flag issues and implement process improvements both within the department and with external contacts as necessary.

The role will involve:

·  Managing the Mars UK group bank accounts including ensuring all bank accounts are up to date, reconciled and in transit accounts are kept clear. This involves acting as a first point of contact for all queries and liaising with key contacts at the banks and units to resolve these.
·  Also transmitting daily payments instructions to bank from different sources of the business ensuring these are processed correctly and on time.
·  Owning the internal controls framework for this area, updating the documentation annually and ensuring the Open Pages controls documentation is up to date.
·  Key user for banking systems and payments processes, e.g. PT-X, MATCH, Cash Pro and Lloyds Link. This includes owning the catastrophe planning process – monitoring and testing this regularly.
·  UK Cash Management – daily, weekly and periodic cash forecasting to manage the UK cash consolidation process and cleared cash position, as well as daily reporting of the UK cash.
·  Support units performing their own cashiering with the banking relationship and best practice.
·  Providing support and assistance to European Treasury Centre for ongoing treasury projects including implementing new banking software, MATCH implementation across the UK, integration of new units to the UK banking system, and providing centre of expertise in transferring UK business across to key strategic banking partners.

To do this role you’ll need:

·  Educated to degree level or significant relevant financial experience
·  Highly numerate with excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise tasks accordingly.
·  Good basic accounting knowledge and a good understanding of the functioning of general ledgers and the SAP accounting system.
·  Experience demonstrating analytical and numerical skills, the ability to drive processes and to manage data and strong attention to detail.

In return we offer:

• Great career progression

• Range of in-house training opportunities

• Competitive salary, bonus and range of large company benefits

We know it’s important to you to find out as much about us as possible, so following a review of your CV the first stage will be a telephone interview with the hiring manager and a chance for you to ask lots of questions. If successful you will be invited to an interview day in front of our panel. Don’t worry you’ll have plenty of time to prepare.

Closing date: 30 th October

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