Assistant Group Treasury Manager – Projects – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract in Bristol

At IVC Evidensia, we are a leading veterinary services provider in Europe and North America with more than 2,500 clinics and hospitals across 19 countries and around 42,000 employees. We aim to have an extraordinary impact on animal lives, supporting in the region of 25,000 animals every single day across our international network. IVC Evidensia exists to champion the long‑term health and welfare of animals and deliver our purpose of Healthy Animals, Happy Owners.

We are seeking a highly capable, autonomous Treasury professional to join our team on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. Acting as the operational engine for the Group Treasury Manager – Projects, you will be instrumental in transitioning our banking operations processes to a “best‑in‑class” controlled environment, ensuring our control environment is matured in line with a group of our size and complexity. As the Group continues to grow through acquisitions, this programme is focused on building a banking control environment that is scalable, consistent and repeatable, enabling faster onboarding of new businesses while reducing operational risk across a complex, multi‑country footprint.

In this role you will provide the dedicated, hands‑on capacity needed to stabilise the Group’s banking foundations. Reporting to the Group Treasury Manager – Projects, you will take ownership of specific project workstream delivery, driving comprehensive assessment and remediation, and operational oversight. By autonomously executing these tasks you will help reinforce Group Treasury as a commercially focused function supported by its Treasury Management System (TMS), payment and liquidity architecture and control frameworks. You will also play a key operational role in ensuring that our rapid acquisition pipeline is supported by a scalable, secure, and transparent banking infrastructure.

Through a Finance, People, Process and Platform lens, you will help embed clear governance, control ownership and repeatable ways of working—so the Group can onboard, integrate and govern banking operations quickly and safely as it scales. This role is initially being offered on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract basis.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Project Execution. Governance & AI Integration
  • Manage day‑to‑day project milestones, and deliverables for assigned workstreams, proactively navigating roadblocks to ensure consistent progress.
  • Maintain workstream plans, develop RAID logs and dependencies, producing clear updates for senior stakeholders—focusing on what enables quicker, safer integration of new entities.
  • Support the drafting and rollout of a comprehensive Group Banking Policy, helping to embed preventative and detective controls for mandates and direct debits.
  • Translate policy into practical “how we do it here” playbooks and templates that local teams and newly acquired businesses can adopt with minimal friction.
  • Where feasible, leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to process fragmented data, draft procedural documentation, automate the categorisation of banking records, and develop advanced queries to identify anomalies within large datasets.
  • Help embed a clear RACI matrix across the Group eliminating fragmented accountabilities.
  • Define control owners, handoffs and escalation routes so controls remain effective during change (e.g., acquisitions, restructures, system migrations).
• Operational Excellence & Oversight
  • Provide first‑level review supporting data collection and remediation efforts.
  • Execute formal periodic access reviews and ensure system‑embedded dual‑authorisation protocols are functioning for all electronic banking portals.
  • Standardise reconciliation and control routines (frequency, ownership, ageing and break resolution) so newly acquired entities can be brought onto a common rhythm rapidly.
• Bank Account Rationalisation & M&A Integration
  • Apply strict closure criteria to drive the deactivation of legacy bank accounts, tracking and reporting progress across the global portfolio of approximately 1,600 accounts.
  • Actively support the onboarding of newly acquired businesses. You will actively engage with historically resistant subsidiaries to gather data to support the seamless integration of operational bank accounts into the Group’s control framework.
  • Implement repeatable onboarding templates (data pack, access model, mandate standards, reconciliation expectations) to reduce time‑to‑control for new acquisitions.
  • Conduct the initial review, benchmarking, and validation of global bank fees to support cost and service optimisation negotiations with strategic banking partners.

Experience/Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in a Corporate Treasury or Banking Operations environment, featuring management, supervisory, or dedicated project execution experience.
• Practical experience implementing or remediating financial control frameworks within a complex, multi‑country organization.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience configuring access controls within a TMS and/or electronic banking platforms, with a working knowledge of systems like Kyriba.
• Ideally, practical experience of using AI tooling and prompt engineering to process large datasets, structure information, and accelerate administrative project tasks.
• Ideally, exposure to acquisition integration, decentralised operating models, or bringing local teams onto a common standard.

Desirable

• Someone who excels at working independently to identify process gaps and implement structured, sustainable solutions.
• Strong interpersonal skills to influence cross‑functional teams and drive proactive engagement across decentralised subsidiaries.
• Ability to interpret complex financial data and translate it into actionable reporting to support the Group Treasury Manager – Projects and wider Treasury team.

Following receipt of your application, you will be contacted by one of our experienced hire recruitment team.

Equal Opportunity

As a BAME and LGBTQ+ inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long‑term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

What We Offer

At IVC Evidensia we recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from:

• Work‑life balance
• 26 days annual leave
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
• Pension
• Discretionary Bonus
• Discounted staff pet care
• Dog Friendly office
• Free Parking available at Head Office

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgement. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.