Group Treasurer

We are currently recruiting for a Group Treasurer to join our Treasury team in London.

Department purpose

To provide high quality advice and relevant information to the decision makers in A&O Shearman, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations and delivering our service efficiently.

Role purpose

To provide a world class Treasury and Insurance service.

Role and responsibilities

Liquidity and Cash Management:

• Managing the day-to-day relationships with our relationship banks


• Managing our bank facilities, including origination, renewals, drawdowns and headroom


• Forecasting cash flow positions, related borrowing needs, and available funds for investment, ensuring that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements


• Advising management on the liquidity aspects of its short and long-term planning


• Managing the firm's global cash resources to ensure that we optimise our use and location of funds in all major operating currencies


• Maximising efficiency of the firm's cash resources by pooling currencies to avoid conversion


Risk Management and Compliance:

• Responsibility for treasury policies and their implementation, maintaining systems and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over treasury activities


• Oversee the client money team to deliver compliance with Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Standards and Regulations


Foreign Exchange Management:

• Reviewing the firm's natural currency hedge and balance sheet exposures, taking action to correct any imbalance, recommending hedges and other financial derivatives where appropriate


Insurance:

• Overseeing the management of the firm's portfolio of global insurance policies (including P.I.) and London insurance policies (excluding HR). Providing input on appropriate coverage levels, monitoring claims and managing relationships with brokers


• Focal point for insurance and risk management queries


Management Responsibilities:

• Directing and managing the activities of the Treasury & Client Money team, including planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods


• 2 direct reports - Treasury Manager and Client Money & Insurance Manager


• Hiring and developing a strong team to support the firm's objectives and strategy


Other:

• Work with management to develop and improve strategies and increase net profit by performing effective treasury management


• Develop strategy for treasury operations including evaluating treasury systems to improve efficiencies, rationalising bank accounts, developing a strategy for managing bank ancillary business requests


• Assume other special projects and responsibilities as required
  
  Significant experience in Treasury functions, ideally in large international environment, with previous change-management / integration experience desirable


• Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation is ideal


• Must be prepared to be hands on in role as well as taking leadership responsibilities


• Should have a thorough understanding of bank account management, international funds flows and cash management systems


• Experience with foreign exchange and intercompany cash management and structuring


• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to communicate complex financial issues in simple, understandable terms


• Strong organisation and project management skills; able to meet tight deadlines and handle multiple tasks/ projects


• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and strong problem-solving skills (agility); able to elicit and comprehend quantitative and qualitative information


• Self-starter, with the demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision


• Strong interpersonal skills. Demonstrated team-leadership skills and ability to influence firm-wide


• Strong knowledge of accounting processes and internal controls


• Must possess strong analytical and critical thinking skills and be detail-oriented
  
  A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.


We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success., A&O Shearman is global industry-leading law firm with 48 offices in 29 countries. We are a partner and trusted advisor to some of the world's most sophisticated companies, governments and financial institutions. With the combined strengths of our legacy firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling, we offer unmatched global breadth and depth, a forward-thinking perspective on the future and a one-firm culture of excellence to achieve unparallelled outcomes for our clients and for each other.

We're at the start of an exciting journey, and this offers exceptional opportunities for our people. Whether you're helping clients solve their most complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel - whether you're starting out, or taking the next step in your career.

We work to attract and retain the very best people - and we support them to build their future with us. As part of our high-performance culture, we have high expectations of one another in everything we do. We foster a working environment based on collaboration and mutual respect, where everyone is trusted to do their very best work in the way they see fit, to a standard we all share.

With us, you will constantly be learning and growing. We invest in you by offering exceptional professional and personal development - providing training, mentoring and practical support. And we nurture an environment and ways of working that promote positive wellbeing.

We have a powerful commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Your unique perspective, attributes and experiences are valued here and we invite you to bring your whole self to work.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best, we ask for the best of you, and we support you to achieve your potential. And together we excel.

We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services encompassing an onsite gym, wellbeing centre and GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, season ticket loans and online discounts and lifestyle management services.

We recognise the value of flexible working and embraces hybrid working, allowing our people to work from home up to 40% of their working time. We do however remain committed to working together in person for the remaining 60% of time so that we can learn, grow and succeed together.