Treasury Operations Lead in London

The Treasury Operations Lead role supports the Treasury Manager by facilitating the effective day-to-day execution of Treasury activities across the group. The role is responsible for operational delivery, control integrity, and day-to-day oversight of Treasury processes, ensuring resilience, consistency, and segregation of duties. The role complements the Treasury Manager’s strategic, policy, and risk ownership, and technical responsibilities by translating direction into controlled execution and by supervising operational activity.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 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 and 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.