Senior Treasury Manager

Kantar Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Treasury Manager to enhance their global treasury function. This pivotal role involves overseeing cash management and treasury operations, ensuring compliance with regulations, and driving process improvements. The successful candidate will collaborate with regional teams to identify risks and develop solutions, while also supporting cash forecasting initiatives. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the transformation of financial operations within a dynamic organization committed to diversity and inclusion. Join a forward-thinking team and make a significant impact on business growth.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in global corporate treasury operations.
• In-depth knowledge of risk management principles related to treasury.

Responsibilities

• Support global treasury activities and cash management.
• Lead management of dividend and loan payments.

Skills

Global Corporate Treasury Operations

Risk Management Principles

Financial Instruments

Regulatory Compliance

Treasury Management Systems

Verbal and Written Communication

Tools

Treasury Management Systems

Financial Software Tools

Job description

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Job Title: Senior Treasury Manager
Location: London, Grays Inn Road
Full time/Permanent/Hybrid

About the Project/Role

In this key position, you will be directly accountable to the Director of Tax & Treasury, playing a crucial role in our dynamic finance organization that is undergoing significant transformation. The role encompasses supporting global treasury activities, cash management, cash forecasting activities and ongoing treasury projects as we work to create a new Treasury function within Kantar Media.

Your responsibilities will be central to the Group Treasury team, working to guarantee the integrity of our liquidity management, cash flow forecasting and supporting our global finance teams with their treasury requirements. As an integral part of our team, you will contribute significantly to the evolution of our financial operations and the overall success of our business.

Job Role Requirements

• Support the global Treasury and wider finance team on all treasury related matters and support the growth of this new global function
• Propose solutions for the extraction of cash from the regions including improvements to bank account structures and banking partners
• Support the Group Treasury team as required on projects, including M&A, banking reorganisation or systems implementation

Accountabilities & responsibilities

• Drive cash centralisation actions and ensure they are appropriately captured in the cash forecasting system.
• Support regions on all treasury related matters.
• Lead the management of dividend, loan and transfer pricing payments to the centre across your allocated region.
• Review and manage cash balances against cash targets and work with local teams to repatriate cash to the centre to meet targets
• Develop and improve central Treasury processes
• Work with local teams to identify treasury risks and solutions to manage those risks.
• Support in planning the future state of the Treasury function
• Support cash forecasting process improvements
• Support regional teams in the use of the newly implemented cash forecasting process
• Support the wider team on day-to-day treasury issues and projects as required

Role Requirements

• Significant experience in global corporate treasury operations, with a proven track record of progressively responsible roles and an understanding of the accounting impact of Treasury
• Ability to work across time zones and global regions to influence and implement decisions
• In-depth knowledge of risk management principles and practices related to treasury operations, including the ability to assess and mitigate financial risks effectively through the use of financial instruments
• Thorough understanding of regulatory requirements related to treasury operations and the ability to ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations
• Familiarity with treasury management systems (and other financial software tools; ability to leverage technology to enhance efficiency and accuracy in treasury operations
• Ability to work collaboratively in a high-performance work environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex financial concepts to various stakeholders

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

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