Cash & Banking Accountant

Who are we? 

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked. 

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet. 

The role  

Within the Finance Reporting Centre, Operations team, a small team of accountants currently provides subject matter expertise and support to delivery of the many change programmes across the company. The team supports projects which have requirements to change or establish new cash and banking operations for Phoenix (whether that is internally or at outsource partners and banking partners). The role sits within the team. 

You'll support or take the lead on banking workstreams for large change programmes, supporting projects from discovery phase and impact assessment through to delivery and ensuring changes land safely and successfully in the business and at external partners (outsourced service providers and banks). You'll work with and manage key internal and external stakeholders (banks and outsource partners) and will be responsible for managing your deliverables, demand and priorities across multiple project workstreams.

What are we looking for?

• Experience of working within a strong financial controls environment
• Experience of working in an operational banking or treasury function with a good knowledge of the UK payments landscape and transactional banking is essential.
• Experience of working on large scale change programmes. 
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A strong communicator with the ability to build excellent working relationships
• Experience of working with retail banks and other payments-service-providers to deliver payments and banking change would be highly desirable.

Location: This role could be based in either our Wythall or Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: Thursday 5th Decemeber 

Salary and benefits: up to £57,000 per annum DOE plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.