Senior Manager - Treasury Operations - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Nationwide; Swindon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide is seeking a Senior Manager – Treasury Operations for a 12-month fixed-term contract role in Swindon. This leadership position will oversee the Treasury Operations team, ensuring operational risk is managed while focusing on member-centered objectives. The role offers a hybrid working approach and extensive employee benefits.

Benefits

A personal pension with a 16% employer contribution

Paid volunteering days

Life assurance 8x salary

Health and wellness options

Performance-related bonuses

Training for career development

30 days holiday

Individual healthcare cover

Qualifications

• Senior finance professional with significant experience leading a Treasury Operations team.
• In-depth knowledge of Treasury Settlements activities and controls.
• Experience with Treasury systems and regulatory understanding.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Treasury Operations team ensuring effective settlements.
• Oversee controls and monitor operational MI monthly.
• Collaborate with Treasury colleagues to develop solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Risk Management

Operational Excellence

Job description

As the Senior Manager – Treasury Operations, you will lead the Treasury Operations team and partner with stakeholders in Nationwide’s Treasury function to ensure that Treasury settlements, collateral management, derivatives and reconciliation processes run smoothly. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with key suppliers and agent banks for Treasury Operations.

You will be responsible for the control environment within Treasury Operations, ensuring that controls are effective and regulatory requirements are met, as well as contributing to second and third line processes. You will be the first point of escalation for the team and be responsible for incident management, and will play a lead role in delivering systems change and other process improvements in partnership with the wider Treasury team.

This 12 month Fixed Term Contract role is part of the Financial Reporting & Tax (FR&T) function, within Finance, and works alongside the Treasury function. You will engage regularly with the Treasury leadership team, and will communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

At Nationwide we openly put our members at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is member focused.

You will ensure we have the right resources to support Nationwide’s treasury activities, that in turn enable the Society’s day-to-day business with our members and customers. You will lead the team to achieve challenging objectives alongside supporting their career development.

Through your focus on maintaining high standards and robust controls, you will ensure that operational risk is appropriately managed, protecting the Society for the benefit of its members today and in the future.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at our Swindon office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be responsible for leadership of the Treasury Operations team, ensuring that the team are able to deliver smooth and effective settlements processes. You’ll oversee the teams planning, daily activity and key outputs.

You will ensure appropriate controls are in place and lead monitoring of controls and reporting of operational MI each month.

Working closely with colleagues in the Treasury function, you’ll understand challenges and support the development of appropriate solutions. As activities and systems within the treasury function evolve, you will engage and collaborate with key parties to ensure changes are embedded and accounting and reporting impacts are well-managed.

In this leadership role, you will role model the behaviours we want to see and contribute to wider leadership activities, to ensure we create a great culture and environment for our people.

About you

• A senior finance professional with significant experience of leading a Treasury Operations team.
• An in-depth knowledge and understanding of Treasury Settlements activities, processes and controls.
• A sound understanding of relevant regulations which impact Financial Services and Treasury activity.
• A sound understanding of treasury products, and ability to make the connections between commercial activity and operational impacts.
• Experience of working with Treasury systems.
• Demonstrable leadership skills, with experience of managing and developing operational teams.
• Excellent communications skills and personal impact to achieve credibility with and influence senior stakeholders.
• A team player who collaborates effectively with other teams and peers.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes.

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 30 days holiday, pro rata
• Individual healthcare cover

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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