The Role

Our professional service teams play a vital role in supporting businesses by providing specialised expertise and assistance for our brands. Our Cash Management team is a key part of our Finance function and offers business support in both Cash Management and Treasury services. If you have high attention to detail, thrive in a customer centric and deadline driven environment, and want to develop your career within finance this could be a great opportunity for you.

Saint Gobain Professional Services are part of Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland who are worldwide leaders in sustainable construction.

This role can be worked on a hybrid basis with a minimum of two days in the office required per week

What we're looking for:

This is a vital service for our businesses and relies on a dedicated team to process, record and reconcile bank transactions and payment ensuring the accuracy and timely measures are met. Some experience in finance whether through education or industry would be an advantage but the most important success factors for the role are your attributes:

• Strong communication skills communication skills.
• High level of accuracy & strong numeric skills. The ability to identify and resolve problems.
• Strong adherence and awareness of internal controls.
• Results oriented with the ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines.
• Customer focused approach.
• Resilience, energy and enthusiasm to achieve goals.

What you will be doing:

Day to day you will support your aligned customer with a range of payment tasks from complex, ad hoc and scheduled payments to payroll and overseas transactions. You will make sure the bank reconciles on a daily basis and assure that all reporting is accurate and timely to promote system integrity. You will also get involved in reports and hedging analysis as well as more in depth month end reporting and reconciling. On top of your day to day duties it will be important to collaborate with other departments and provide an excellent service to our internal clients adding value with your support.

• Accurate daily recording of all bank transactions into the cash book for reconciliation.
• Adequate daily FX analysis.
• Overall responsibility for the preparation of domestic, overseas and intercompany payments.
• Actively follow internal controls, promoting best practice and critical eye within the function, SSC and to all SSC customers.
• Accurately record all the intergroup current account movements.
• Preparation of monthly reconciliations and reporting.

Are Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we're always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments.

Our standard working hours are 36.25 per week, with the option to work from home 3 days a week after training. If you need more flexibility- we'll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can't promise to meet every request when we're recruiting. But we do promise to listen.

If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you!