Treasury Operations Lead

Cash and Liquidity Operations

• Own and oversee execution readiness for time-critical Treasury activity including urgent payments, payroll funding cycles, and value-date dependent FX/payment execution.
• Oversee the controlled execution of Treasury payments and standard FX transactions in line with Treasury policy and approved workflows.
• Monitor execution quality and ensure issues are resolved without compromising control standards.
• Act as escalation point for liquidity execution issues, including cut-off, holiday, or settlement challenges.

Banking Operations

• Lead bank administration activities across the Group, including account opening and closure coordination, mandate and signatory updates, and banking documentation management.
• Coordinate and execute mandate and signatory updates in accordance with approved governance and delegation frameworks.
• Support online banking governance including entitlements and access processes in line with internal control attributes.
• Act as day-to-day operational contact with banks and service providers for execution, investigations, and administrative matters ensuring communications with banks are accurate, timely, and aligned with approved Treasury positions.
• Maintain accurate records and audit ready evidence relating to bank mandates, authorities and access.
• Support the Treasury Manager by preparing information, coordinating responses, and ensuring operational follow-through on banking initiatives.
• Oversee and provide cover for the issuance, maintenance, and preparation of letters of credit, guarantees, bid bonds and performance bonds, and maintain associated records.

Control, Risk, Procedures and Audit

• Support the execution of Treasury risk management activities (e.g. FX settlement, payment timing, operational risk mitigation) in line with approved policies.
• Ensure operational controls around risk execution are followed and exceptions are escalated appropriately.
• Build and maintain Treasury SOPs and process documentation, ensuring critical processes are written, controlled, trainable and auditable.
• Facilitate execution of key Treasury control activities, including access reviews, evidence retention, and audit preparation.
• Support Internal Controls, Audit, and Compliance teams with timely, accurate documentation.

Process, Digitalisation and Automation

• Drive process standardisation, automation, and efficiency improvements in line with Treasury Manager strategy and priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying and implementing efficiency opportunities through treasury technologies and system integrations (e.g., banking connectivity, reporting automation, workflow optimisation, and responsible Gen-AI enablement) in line with Treasury Manager strategy and priorities to reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve scalability.

Team Oversight and Development

• Provide day-to-day guidance and oversight to the Treasury Analyst.  Act as a second line reviewer for critical execution steps through knowledge sharing.  Drive standardisation through trackers, templates, and evidence packs to reduce key-person dependency.

Service Model, Prioritisation and Stakeholder Management

• Implement Treasury service discipline: manage inbound requests through prioritisation rules, maintain clarity on what Treasury will deliver and by when, and support establishment of service levels.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Proven experience in similar treasury, accounting, or financial operations role.
• Strong control mindset- evidence, auditability, segregation of duties, procedure discipline.
• Preference for experience from stock exchange listed company and offshore related environment, banking or finance is an advantage.
• Confident stakeholder management with banks and internal teams; able to drive closure ad maintain standards.
• Solid IT knowledge and advanced MS working knowledge.
• Familiarity with SOX compliance and external audit processes.
• IFS knowledge an advantage.
• Excellent English verbal and written communications skills.