Treasury Officer at Britam

Job Purpose:
Responsible for Cashflow management, Treasury dealings, Asset and Custody reconciliations, Regulatory Reporting and Compliance (IRA), timely and accurate bank reconciliation, treasury accounting and maintaining financial records The job holder also ensures all requirements by internal and external auditors are met in a timely and accurate manner.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for cash flow analysis and management;

• Daily cash flow & liquidity management.
• Seeking investment opportunities for free cash through deposit placements & uplifts.
• Management of relationships with treasury departments of financial institutions in relation to term deposits.
• Foreign currency dealings as needs arise.
• Circulating cash flow data as per lines of businesses for clear decision making with regard to available cash and near cash instruments.

Asset and Custody Reconciliations;

• Update of records and investment schedules in line with the approved tactical asset allocation decisions in relation to business funds in line with value optimization objectives.
• Participate in the monthly closing of the books of accounts through transactional & accrual accounting.
• Carry out monthly bank reconciliations ensure all Investment transactions are correctly accounted for in the systems.
• Ensures that all income from investments is received fully and in time. This includes; Dividends, coupons and Interests and carry out monthly accounts analysis for investments and incomes as required by the Finance reporting guidelines and ensure all deadlines are met.
• Carry out investment asset and custody reconciliations to ensure they reconcile to the fund manager and the custodian.
• Monitoring fund manager and custodian activity to ensure they are in line with strategy.
• The job holder is also expected to ensure payment of fund manager invoices in line with set guidelines and agreements.

Regulatory Reporting and Compliance:

• Ensures that IRA reporting is done within the timeliness.
• Ensures efficient and effective handling of all internal and external customer queries. Handling queries by both external and internal auditors intelligently as assigned from time to time.
• Ensure protection and availability of company and departmental data according to existing policy.
• Deliver on performance requirements as defined in the departments’ strategy map, balanced scorecard and Personal Scorecard.

Knowledge, Qualifications & Experience:

• A Business oriented degree from a recognized university.
• Professional qualification or pursuing Professional Qualification in CPA, CFA and or CISA.
• Team player with ability to establish understanding and create rapport with various internal and external customers.
• Excellent computer knowledge and thorough understanding of application of the Microsoft Office suite.
• Working knowledge in Online payment systems and ERP Oracle system.