Senior Liquidity Analyst

Let’s grow together!

A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Liquidity analyst looking for an opportunity to grow in a fast-paced, friendly environment, we’re looking for you!

We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver monitoring and forecasting of liquidity metrics on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Reconcile actual ratios to prior periods and forecasts.
• Liaise with treasury, business areas and risk managers to ensure the appropriateness and accuracy of forecasts and liquidity metrics and the representation of liquidity risks.
• Develop and improve on existing forecasting methods, improving accuracy, speed and efficiency of the data. Aid in the development of new indicators and their reporting, especially with regards to aligning to the evolution of the ILAAP.
• Undertake analytical review, variance analysis and commentary on the liquidity metrics and forecasts. Support with oversight of the front-line liquidity stress trigger events and potential for liquidity stress.
• Actively promote skills and the desired mindset within the FP&A team to help achieve the team objectives.
• Develop and maintain trusted relationships across the Group whilst ensuring high quality deliverables ensuring the use of effective and confident stakeholder management to challenge ideas and decisions to get the best outcomes.
• Work on ad hoc projects where liquidity planning is required.
• Develop and maintain adequate documentation, ensuring that sufficient internal controls are in place.

What you’ll bring to the team

• You will be a qualified accountant or studying towards a relevant professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA preferred). You will be confident, possess strong financial & analytical skills as well as having a strong commercial acumen.
• You will be highly proficient in Excel. You will be able to work to tight deadlines, prioritise your own workload and also be able to delegate, assimilate and utilise new information quickly and adopt a logical and systematic approach to problem solving.
• You will be an excellent communicator both verbally and in the written form. You will be able to motivate and challenge those around you.
• You will be flexible and able to adapt within a changing environment. A team player who can work with stakeholders in other functions to achieve objectives.
• You will have the ability to work using own initiative.

Paragon perks

• Generous holiday allowance, with a day off for your birthday!
• Paid community volunteering
• Company-wide, profit-sharing bonus
• Pension plan - we’ll contribute up to 10% of your annual salary
• Life assurance and personal accident cover

Be flexible

We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. Most teams are hybrid working, splitting their week between the office and home. The exact details will be confirmed with you as part of your recruitment journey.

Be yourself

We welcome diversity and we care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Formed in 2020, our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse and inclusive business.

Be heard

We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.

Be well

We offer a range of support to help you care for your wellbeing, from our free Employee Assistance Programme to our qualified Wellbeing team who are on hand to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life.

Be better

We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.

Be a part of it!

Our employees tell us that the best thing about Paragon is the people! So, if you’re looking for an energetic, friendly team with a great set of values to help you take the next step in your career, apply now and let’s grow together!