Treasury Operations Manager

Vida Bank Limited; Greater London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Vida Bank Limited is seeking an experienced Treasury Operations professional to own core activities within the Treasury function. You will ensure accurate processing, control adherence and timely delivery across mortgage funding, retail savings and related back-office processes.

You will participate in process improvements, support AI adoption and collaborate with IT and BI teams to enhance the data landscape within Treasury while maintaining strong controls and deadlines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a banking Treasury Operations/back office function.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines and be able to prioritise workload.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent attention to detail and a willingness to learn.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, hands-on approach with the ability to operate effectively within a small, growing and collaborative Treasury team.
• Confident in challenging others, whilst at the same time maintaining and building professional relationships.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of treasury operations activities including mortgage funding and retail savings.
• Back-office processing of treasury transactions: bookings, confirmations, settlements and investigations.
• Collateral management and monitoring of market value and margin movements.
• Daily cash management with Front Office.
• Maintain Treasury Operations checklist and reconciliations.
• Manage Treasury Management System data, reports, testing and development.
• Develop procedures to align with new work streams and objectives.
• Support Treasury Risk in tracking limits, mandates and compliance metrics.
• Assist data analysis and reporting projects with IT/BI to enhance treasury data landscape.
• Identify process efficiency opportunities and support AI capability adoption.

Skills

Treasury operations

Analytical skills

Deadline management

Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Team collaboration

Stakeholder management

Tools

Quantum (TMS)

Swift Alliance

Python

SQL

Job description

About us

Vida Bank provides competitive savings products through Vida Savings and specialist mortgage solutions through Vida Homeloans.

Our mortgage business supports Buy to Let (BTL) and residential borrowers (ROO) who find themselves underserved elsewhere. Our mortgage customers range from Buy to Let investors, to the self-employed and customers with multiple jobs.

Our savings proposition is delivered online via our website, and is focussed on providing savers with fair, transparent and competitive rates. Our typical customers are active savers, who tend to look beyond their current account provider for savings accounts.

Our business model and strategy are underpinned by our core purpose to ‘Help More People Find a Place to call Home’.

We are here to help the under-served, especially those with more nuanced personal circumstances or borrowing needs who are not able to access a mortgage from a mainstream mortgage lender. Working exclusively with intermediary partners, we combine cutting‑edge technology with skilled and caring underwriting expertise to solve complex customer problems.

As a fully regulated UK based bank with ambitious growth aspirations, we recognise the importance of having a clearly articulated culture strategy and the need to actively manage how it embeds in the business together with the behaviours which exemplify it.

As a recognised Best Companies Top 100 mid‑sized company to work for in the UK and a finalist at the Financial Reporter Women’s Recognition Awards, we take pride in our diverse workforce, championing both ethic and gender diversity through our EDI commitments.

Having met the target set by being a member of the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter we have 50% of senior management roles filled by women.

With offices in London, Newcastle and Skipton, we bring our teams together regularly to collaborate and empower our colleagues to have more choice around when and where they work on the days they are not in the office, with colleagues working remotely in various locations across the UK.

Our Culture

We are proud to have built a culture founded on an ethos of caring, and that sits at the heart of our Vida Values, driving the way we run our business, support our customers and other stakeholders on a daily basis.

We genuinely care about delivering the right outcomes for all our stakeholders who we consider through the cultural framework as our customers, colleagues, company and communities that we operate in.

By Joining Vida you will have a sense of belonging in what is a diverse and collaborative environment, where you will be empowered to take responsibility for driving delivery.

We embrace a diversity of backgrounds and experiences in our people, in the deeply held belief that better outcomes are achieved for customers when our colleagues are better placed to empathise with and understand their unique circumstances. From application to interview, we place inclusion at the heart of all we do.

Role Overview:

The key focus of the role will be taking ownership of core Treasury Operations activities, ensuring all processes and controls are performed accurately, efficiently and in accordance with internal procedures and agreed timelines. The role holder will play a part in supporting the continued growth of Vida by helping to deliver and enhance operational processes and controls and.

The successful candidate will be supporting Treasury Operations in all day‑to‑day deliverables whilst ensuring that all key controls are performed in line with internal procedures and timelines. Alongside this, the role holder will participate in project work and process improvement to meet business requirements.

The role is designed for a motivated individual looking to be part of a dynamic and busy Treasury Operations team sitting within the Treasury function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Day‑to‑day management of both the mortgage funding process and retail savings
• Carrying out all back‑office aspects of Treasury transactions including bookings, confirmations, settlements and investigations.
• Collateral management daily activities and monitoring market value movements, margin movements and associated controls.
• Daily cash management working with Front Office
• Ownership of the daily Treasury Operations checklist including all reconciliations
• Maintenance of the Treasury Management System including accurate data, report building and system testing and development.
• Regular assessment and development of Treasury’s procedures to ensure they are aligned with new work streams and Treasury’s overall objectives whilst seeking to develop these further to adapt with the changing environment.
• Supporting the Treasury Risk team in tracking limits, mandates, and compliance metrics.
• Assisting with data analysis and reporting projects in collaboration with IT and BI teams to enhance the data landscape within Treasury.
• Identify process efficiency opportunities and assist in solutioning such opportunities to release resource capacity across the team.
• Proactively support the adoption of AI capabilities and collaborate with others to build and embed AI knowledge within the CFO team.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in a banking Treasury Operations/back office function
• Strong numerical and analytical skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines and be able to prioritise workload.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent attention to detail and a willingness to learn.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• A proactive, hands‑on approach with the ability to operate effectively within a small, growing and collaborative Treasury team.
• Confident in challenging others, whilst at the same time maintaining and building professional relationships.

Desirable:

• Experience with Quantum (TMS) is a plus but not required.
• Experience with Swift Alliance is a plus but not required.
• Experience with data tools or programming (e.g., Python, SQL) is a plus but not required.
• Mortgage settlement experience is a plus but not required.

Our Values

Our values are well established and recognised throughout our organisation. They provide a frame of reference for the behaviours expected from our colleagues every day.

We find ways to break old conventions, especially those which cause exclusion or customer harm. We look for these qualities when hiring new talent into the organisation, and they underpin our approach to personal development and performance management for all our people. At the heart of this is the fact we care about our Customers, Our Colleagues and our Communities. We are:

Visionary - We innovate and break old habits, thinking big and pushing boundaries together as one team

Inclusive - We value each other’s differences and work to see people for who they really are

Dynamic - We are flexible and fast, cutting through complexity and never accepting second best

Authentic - We are honest and genuine, what you see is what you get

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees’ professional and personal needs. Further details can be provided upon application.