This is an exciting new Senior Treasury Manager role based just outside of London, in Hertfordshire (but offering hybrid working flexibility). This person will own Group treasury operations end to end — cash and liquidity, banking relationships, funding and covenant compliance — and build out the Group's treasury structure, including cash pooling, across the UK, Europe, Middle East and India.
Key Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day administration of the Group's bond and guarantee facilities and covenant / leverage monitoring
- Own leverage calculations, including forecasts, ensuring compliance within agreed limits
- Manage intercompany loans and trading balances, including intercompany interest calculations and month-end cash settlements
- Manage the transfer pricing policy, ensuring intercompany invoices are raised and cash flow moves effectively around the Group
- Assess currency hedging needs for contracts with material foreign currency exposure, per the Accounting Manual's foreign currency policy
- Establish and streamline treasury-specific operations, processes and procedures across the UK, Europe, ME and India
- Implement cash pooling across Group entities, including structure design, bank implementation and ongoing operation
- Lead treasury control structure projects, including the implementation and enhancement of a treasury management / banking and payments solution
- Manage cash and liquidity through cash flow analysis, planning and forecasting
- Manage FX and interest rate risk across the Group
- Ensure the timely execution of payments, adhering to strict cut-off times
- Manage banking relationships: act as main point of contact, open and close bank accounts, review access and signatory rights, manage corporate credit cards, and map, improve and manage bank costs
- Coordinate and evaluate new banking counterparties
- Work closely with the business to minimise financial risk, including responsibility for bank guarantees and letters of credit
- Oversee treasury-related reporting as a contribution to the month-end close
- Use understanding of the balance sheet and P&L to track and report on treasury and cash movements
- Collate and present projected efficiency savings to improve covenant test metrics
- Interact with internal stakeholders on deliverables and issue resolution, and drive ad hoc projects delivering proactive treasury solutions
Key Experience required
- 10–15+ years' experience in finance and treasury, with a successful track record of creating an international treasury centre
- Experience leading treasury control structure projects
- Experience implementing a banking and payments solution (treasury management system) and cash pooling structures
- Experience in modelling financial risk and cash forecasting