Cash & Banking Manager

Centrica; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrica is seeking a Cash & Banking Manager to lead a critical financial control function within a major UK energy group. You will manage governance, reporting and customer payment flows, driving automation and standardisation across onshore and offshore teams.

You will partner with Finance, Treasury and external banks to deliver robust controls, regulatory reporting and impactful improvements in efficiency and risk management. Hybrid UK work with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent.
• Significant experience in Cash & Banking, Financial Control, Shared Services or a similar finance environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Cash & Banking activities across the Group, ensuring accurate accounting, reconciliations and financial reporting at an Enterprise-wide level.
• Oversee the control and reconciliation of customer payment and refund accounts, maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and compliance.
• Drive process standardisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives in support of the wider Finance transformation agenda.
• Deliver month-end, statutory, audit and regulatory reporting requirements to agreed deadlines.
• Maintain a strong financial control environment, identifying and mitigating financial, operational and fraud risks.
• Partner with Finance, Treasury, banking providers and outsourced teams to ensure effective service delivery, governance and operational performance.
• Support the implementation of new payment channels, banking processes and system enhancements, ensuring appropriate controls are in place.
• Lead, coach and develop onshore and offshore teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Skills

ACA/ACCA/CIMA

Qualified accountant

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Automation experience

Financial controls

Process improvement

Problem solving

Offshore service delivery

Banking operations knowledge

Job description

Cash & Banking Manager

Join us, be part of more.

We're more than an energy company. We're a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 22,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn't rely on fossil fuels whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That's why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently-we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team

At Centrica, Group Finance is a core driver of how we deliver our strategy. You'll join a team transforming financial insight, performance management and decision-making across the organisation, bringing together finance professionals, data specialists and technology experts to deliver meaningful outcomes at pace.

We're scaling automation, analytics and AI from isolated solutions into enterprise-wide capabilities - improving reporting quality, strengthening financial control, accelerating decision-making, reducing manual effort and creating the digital foundations that underpin everything from energy trading and investment appraisal to business performance and regulatory reporting.

If you want to work on complex, high-impact challenges using modern finance, data and technology practices, and help build the capabilities that will shape how Centrica makes decisions over the next decade, this is the place to do it.

Location

UK-based hybrid role with occasional travel to Centrica offices.

About your role

Cash & Banking is a critical function that supports the accurate management of customer payments, cash reporting and financial control across Centrica.

As Cash & Banking Manager, you'll lead a business-critical team responsible for the governance, control and reporting of significant cash balances and customer payment flows across the Group. You'll play a key role in ensuring robust financial controls, operational excellence and regulatory compliance while driving automation, process improvement and standardisation.

Working closely with Finance, Treasury, Operations, external banking partners and offshore delivery teams, you'll help shape the future of Cash & Banking at Centrica, delivering improvements that enhance efficiency, strengthen controls and support better business outcomes. You will support the design and delivery of a new service delivery model which will provide centralised, standardised and automated accounting for banking transactions and you will manage on-shore and off-shore teams to deliver Cash & Banking operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine leadership, financial control and transformation experience while influencing how a major UK organisation manages one of its most important financial processes.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the delivery of Cash & Banking activities across the Group, ensuring accurate accounting, reconciliations and financial reporting at an Enterprise-wide level.

• Oversee the control and reconciliation of customer payment and refund accounts, maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and compliance.

• Drive process standardisation, automation and continuous improvement initiatives in support of the wider Finance transformation agenda.

• Deliver month-end, statutory, audit and regulatory reporting requirements to agreed deadlines.

• Maintain a strong financial control environment, identifying and mitigating financial, operational and fraud risks.

• Partner with Finance, Treasury, banking providers and outsourced teams to ensure effective service delivery, governance and operational performance.

• Support the implementation of new payment channels, banking processes and system enhancements, ensuring appropriate controls are in place.

• Lead, coach and develop onshore and offshore teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.

Here's what we're looking for

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

• Significant experience in Cash & Banking, Financial Control, Shared Services or a similar finance environment.

• Strong understanding of reconciliations, financial controls and reporting processes.

• Proven experience leading teams and driving operational performance in a complex organisation.

• Experience delivering process improvement, automation or transformation initiatives.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex financial information and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience working with outsourced or offshore service delivery models is desirable.

• Knowledge of banking operations, customer payment processes and associated controls is advantageous.

This role offers the opportunity to lead a key financial control function within one of the UK's leading energy companies. You'll have the chance to drive meaningful change, influence senior stakeholders and play an important role in improving how Cash & Banking operates across the business.

Why should you apply

We're not a perfect place, we're a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That's why we've designed our total rewards to give you the flexiblity to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we're a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

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