Cash & Liquidity Manager

BAE Systems.; Abergele; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

BAE Systems is seeking a Cash and Liquidity Manager to oversee cash management processes, ensuring compliance and driving improvements. This hybrid role involves leading a team to manage daily cash and payment operations while facilitating investments and maintaining operational finance efficiency.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cash management or treasury operations.
• Significant understanding of financial accounting systems.
• Excellent leadership skills with a focus on team development.

Responsibilities

• Manage cash resources to meet business commitments.
• Oversee daily payment runs and maintain balance sheet reconciliations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives in cash management.

Skills

Cash Management

Financial Accounting Systems

Leadership

Continuous Improvement

Excel Skills

Education

ACCA/ACA/CIMA Qualified

Tools

Natwest Banking Platform

Citibank Banking Platform

Job description

Job title: Cash and Liquidity Manager

Location: Glascoed

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £55k per annum, dependant on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• Manage cash resources to meet business commitments through effective cash management
• Manage the daily payment runs across the ERPs, ensuring compliance with PPPR and Fair Payment Code
• Lead the month-end close process while maintaining a robust month-end timetable
• Ensure all cash transactions are accurately recorded in the ERPs and maintain the integrity of balance sheet reconciliations
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Robotic Process Automation, to enhance cash and liquidity processes and procedures

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Proven experience in cash management or treasury operations within a corporate setting
• Significant understanding of financial accounting systems and ERP configuration
• Excellent leadership skills with a focus on team recruitment, training, and development
• Ability to identify and implement continuous improvement processes effectively
• Intermediate level Excel skills

Desirable:

• ACCA/ACA/CIMA fully qualified - qualified by experience will be considered
• Experience of Natwest and Citibank banking platforms
• Coaching skills

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Finance Operations Team:

The role will require you to manage a team of circa 20 people to facilitate the reporting of an accurate cash positions to Group Treasury, ensuring all available surplus funds are invested on a daily basis and all payment requirements are met. The overarching objective is to ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements and to facilitate any investment opportunities.

In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing cash management processes, leading the recruitment and development of your team, and driving continuous improvement initiatives within our financial operations. Your expertise will ensure that we maintain compliance with external requirements and enhance our financial control framework.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 9th July 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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