Financial Services Advisory Senior Manager - Treasury

BDO UK; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UK is seeking a Senior Manager in Financial Services Advisory to lead treasury advisory and internal audit engagements for FS and corporate clients in the UK.

The role focuses on benchmarking, process improvements, and delivering complex assignments while building strong client relationships and leading junior team members.

Qualifications

• Experience leading treasury management for Financial Services and corporates.
• Knowledge of FS sector, governance, and UK regulatory environment.
• Experience in advisory and internal audit engagements with planning, fieldwork, and reporting.
• Relevant professional qualifications or memberships such as ACT, ICAEW, CIMA, CIIA, ACCA.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to influence and manage stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead treasury advisory reviews, benchmarking and process improvements.
• Manage engagements, plan and deliver, supervising junior staff.
• Develop and maintain deep client relationships to grow the practice.
• Identify opportunities and contribute to business development.

Skills

Treasury management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Advisory & internal audit

Qualifications & memberships

Communication skills

Business development

Education

Professional qualifications (ACT, ICAEW, CIMA, CIIA, ACCA)

Job description

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Advisory team provide a wide variety of services that deliver value‑led advice and outcomes. They have an in‑depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of our clients’ affairs. The team work across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. From technology to risk advisory, they’re experts in following through on top‑level instructions and resolving the finer details – all in one straight‑forward package. When you join them, you’ll work on some of the world's most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry.

We’ll help you succeed

Our clients trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with clients and building long‑lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who can work pro‑actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

Overview

As a Senior Manager in the Financial Services Advisory team, you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of Financial Services and Corporate clients providing treasury advisory and internal audit services. It is expected that you will get involved in treasury advisory reviews such as benchmarking, process improvement and treasury system implementations. The role will play an active part in business development, will lead the planning and delivery of engagements supervising more junior members of the team and sometimes directly involved in more complex assignments. You will play an important role in identifying opportunities, developing and maintaining deep client relationships and in developing members of the BDO team to facilitate the future growth of this business area. You will be seen as a subject matter expert in treasury management with a proven track record and experience that allows you to provide insight and add value.

You’ll be someone with:

• Strong experience in treasury management in Financial Services and / or Corporates, including experience of leading teams and delivering treasury process and system improvements. Ideally this will be combined with prior experience in professional services.
• Strong knowledge of the Financial Services sector, corporate governance, and the UK regulatory environment
• Ideally, you will have experience in delivering advisory and internal audit engagements and the associated methodology and techniques including planning, fieldwork and reporting
• Recognised treasury, accountancy or internal audit professional qualifications and/or memberships i.e. ACT, ICAEW, CIMA, CIIA, ACCA etc.
• Strong written / communication skills, ability to influence, lead, engage, and manage stakeholders
• Strong leadership skills
• Experience of business development

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people‑centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested instate-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in them. Across the UK thousands of unique minds coming together to help our clients reach their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.