Treasury Operations Lead Analyst - Private Assets

Who we're looking for
We're looking for Treasury Analyst to join our Private Assets Operations team. 

The position will offer a fast-paced and intellectually challenging work environment that offers accelerated exposure to private markets and increasing responsibility. 

The successful candidate will have demonstrated strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to learn new skills and knowledge within the private market space.

 
About Schroders
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
  
We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
  
The base
You'll be based at our Broadlands Business Campus near Horsham in West Sussex. It's home to our EMEA Operations and Technology Operations hub. 
   
What you'll do
Daily Cash Management
•    Ensure daily cash management activities.
•    Check Treasury inbox and disseminate when and where appropriate.
•    Investigate payment issues where appropriate (recalls, cancellations of payments, dups, missing incoming funds) in close collaboration with banks and Fund Operations Team.
•    Approve new bank accounts in eFront.
•    Ensure all payments have been processed successfully. Raise flag where anomalies identified (with relevant stake holders).
•    Assisting Treasury Team in establishing/closing off bank accounts in the treasury management system, processing monthly manual payments on an ad hoc basis.

 
Facility Mailbox
•    Main contact person for facility requests.
•    Check facility mailbox on a daily basis and liaise with bank/Fund Operations Team on new loan requests, maturing loans, interest payments, repayments.
•    Keep covenant file update at all times (roll-overs, new, repayments).
•    Ensure all loans (new and roll-overs) are entered in the treasury management system in due time.
•    Do weekly reconciliation covenant file and the treasury management system.

 
Additional administrative duties
•    Assist Treasury team in all daily administrative duties relating to bank account openings, due diligence updates requested from various banks.
•    Assist with various reports and audits throughout the year.

  
The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

•    Prior experience in a treasury function (corporate or bank)
•    Strong analytical skills
•    Experience in treasury management systems 
•    Excellent knowledge of MS excel. 
•    Proactive and independent working style
•    Flexibility to adapt to changing day-to-day priorities

  
The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
•     Experience using Coupa TM5
  
What you'll be like
•     An expert in your field 
•    Good at analysing and solving problems
•    Open to feedback, receptive to change, challenges status quo and continually looks out for team and self improvement opportunities on self and on the team;
•    Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills;
•    A strong team player able to develop and manage strong working relationships with global internal departments and external counterparties; and
•    Able to adapt to changes quickly and be an advocator of an innovative culture within the team.
  
We're looking for the best, whoever they are

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics.