Financial Services Manager - Cash and Banking

BAM UK & Ireland; Hemel Hempstead; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Company car or allowance

Pension contributions (8% matched)

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Wellbeing days & volunteering day

Personal and professional development

Job summary

BAM UK & Ireland is hiring a Financial Services Manager – Cash and Banking to lead the back-office treasury function across the UK&I Division, based from Farnborough, Hemel Hempstead, or Kildare with minimum three days in the office and travel between locations.

Reporting to the Financial Services Director, you will drive cash management, liquidity planning, banking administration and governance, whilst delivering improvements, digitisation, and enhanced reporting across treasury processes.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of accounting principles and practices
• Proven experience in cash management, liquidity planning, and treasury operations
• Understanding of financial controls, governance, risk management, internal controls and compliance requirements
• Ability to leverage data, analytics, and business insights to support decision-making and drive performance
• Digital capability with confidence in using technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Experience in working capital management and optimising financial performance
• Proven resource and capacity management skills, ensuring effective planning and utilisation of people and resources
• Results-driven with strong decision-making skills and a focus on continuous improvement
• Customer-focused with excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Strong situational awareness, commercial judgement and adaptability
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate vision into action
• Proven leadership experience, including developing and motivating high-performing teams

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Treasury and Cash Function within the UK&I Division
• Lead and coach a team to process cash and treasury transactions accurately and timely
• Mentor, train and develop team members to ensure high performance
• Coordinate treasury function, cash management, and cash-flow forecasting
• Ensure governance, compliance and accurate reporting across banking and treasury processes
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to manage banking relationships
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation of End-to-End treasury processes
• Deliver treasury reporting and insights for senior management
• Act as Centre of Excellence for processes and systems in treasury
• Maintain documentation for audits and ensure quality controls

Job description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

BAM UK & Ireland is recruiting a Financial Services Manager – Cash and Banking . This position can be based across our Farnborough, Hemel Hempstead, or Kildare offices, with office attendance required a minimum of three days each week and frequent travel between locations.

This is a high-profile and impactful role at the heart of BAM UK & Ireland’s Financial Services function, reporting to the Financial Services Director. As a senior member of the Financial Services (FS) team, you will lead the back-office treasury function across the UK&I Division, ensuring effective cash management, liquidity planning, banking administration, and treasury governance, acting as the operational lead for treasury activities, driving continuous improvement, digitisation, reporting enhancements, and best practice across all treasury processes.

Making Possible

• Supporting an evolving Financial Services function for the UK&I Division, by owning and managing the Treasury and Cash Function within UK&I Division.
• Lead and coach a team to ensure all financial transactions relating to cash and treasury are processed correctly, completely and in a timely manner to ensure stakeholder requirements are met for both internal and external stakeholders, and to provide insightful management information to enable business decisions to be made on.
• Responsible for optimal and motivated staffing, ensuring an emphasis on workforce planning, both qualitatively and quantitatively, within the immediate team, to ensure all work is done as efficiently and effectively as possible. Taking responsibility for the mentoring, training and development of the team.
• Coordinate, plan and take responsibility for the quality and efficiency of the Treasury Function and cash management for the Division, including supporting cash-flow forecasting. Liquidity planning and optimising working capital across the Division.
• Ensure a high level of predictability and quality of the figures that the team reports, where the same assumptions and processes are used across Segments to achieve as much standardisation and consistency as possible, whilst ensuring compliance with all banking and treasury reporting obligations.
• Align with internal and external stakeholders (business colleagues, clients and suppliers) in a timely manner on financial transactions to enable a high quality of information processing and to support business processes, including managing the banking relationships on behalf of the Division and act as the primary contact for all banking partners. Acting as point of contact for the internal client. Building strong relationships with internal and external business stakeholders to achieve quality insights of needs and priorities and to create a platform for change.
• Ensure and support the introduction of a way of working where continuous improvement holds a central role. Recognise and identify process bottlenecks and work with the team to ensure these are ratified. Sharing End to End insights with stakeholders based on observations to make sure that root causes of issues are resolved and not just symptoms (process driven work).
• Drive improvements in treasury reporting, controls, governance and compliance across the Division.
• Deliver results and trends reporting to ensure senior management has insight into key information and developments therein. Review consolidated figures. Ensure correct and timely internal and external reporting.
• Acts, with the team, as Centre of Excellence for processes and systems.
• Ensure correct and complete documentation for internal and external audits.
• Strive for standardisation and a high quality of working. Lead and/or participate in working groups to improve End to End processes and systems.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to an attractive salary we offer a significant benefits package which could include:

• Competitive salary
• Company Car or Car allowance
• A wide range of family friendly policies
• 8% matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development
• Flexible benefit pot

What do you bring to the role?

• Accountant with a solid understanding of accounting principles and practices
• Proven experience in cash management, liquidity planning, and treasury operations.
• Understanding of financial controls, governance, risk management, internal controls, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to leverage data, analytics, and business insights to support decision-making and drive performance.
• Digital capability, with confidence in using technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Experience in working capital management and optimising financial performance.
• Proven resource and capacity management skills, ensuring effective planning and utilisation of people and resources.
• Results-driven with strong decision-making skills and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Customer-focused, with excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Strong situational awareness, commercial judgement, and adaptability in a changing environment.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate vision into action.
• Proven leadership experience, including developing and motivating high-performing teams.

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you. "Join us in Making Possible"