Managing the day to day running of the Treasury Department with the assistance of two Treasury Assistants

• Consolidated management accounts reporting – Responsible for consolidating the group management accounts packs from subsidiaries ready for the Group Accountant to write the board report. This also was reliant on building working relationships with the management accountants across the South Staffordshire group to ensure the reporting deadlines were being met. This included consolidated reporting on profit & loss, statutory cash flows, debt ageing profiles and capital expenditure requirements;• Reconciling the holding company monthly management accounts and balance sheet;• Statutory Accounts – Responsible for reconciling and compiling the first draft of subsidiary accounts for review by the Internal Audit Manager. This also included assisting with audit queries when required; • Group Interest – Reconciling the group’s finance charge obligations (c.£20m per annum), including producing the updated full-year cash and p&l forecasts for the current financial period. The reconciliation would be utilised in the consolidated group management accountants;• VAT Reconciliation – Compiling the VAT return for 2 separate VAT groups. Producing a monthly VAT return for the Regulated water company group (£0.5m - £1m reclaim per month) and for the Non-Regulated support services group (£2m - £4m VAT payable per quarter).

Facilitating the daily borrowings process and banking portfolioReconciling the holding company cashbooksDetermining the daily investment / borrowing channelsBe the main point of contact for all banking related queries in the GroupCash and working capital managementManagement of group-wide bank accountsFX dealingPurchasing Card scheme processingAssistant with Payroll and Accounts Payable requirementsOccasional ad hoc project requirements