Head of Treasury, EMEA New London

KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Head of Treasury, EMEA role is based in London and sits within a rapidly evolving global Treasury function, leading treasury activities across the Firm’s European Asset Management, Insurance, Credit & Markets, and Private Markets businesses. Reporting to the Global Head of Treasury, the role is critical to driving treasury strategy, operating model evolution, and best practices across EMEA and cross-regionally. The role supports complex, multi-stakeholder deal execution, including deal funding, liquidity and cash management, while driving a commercial and scalable treasury playbook. It requires close partnership with investment teams, business operations, and global treasury, with a strong focus on innovation, technology, and effective governance, risk, and controls.

Responsibilities

• Oversee deal funding activity and day-to-day execution.
• Partner closely with investment teams across the transaction lifecycle, embedding treasury early and ensuring efficient, well-controlled execution.
• Own and continuously refine treasury deal-closing playbooks, ensuring a highly commercial and flexible approach that adapts to changing market, business, and regulatory conditions.
• Provide leadership on liquidity, funding, and cash management, including tracking and optimizing the full cash lifecycle across EMEA.
• Lead and evolve the EMEA treasury strategy, ensuring alignment with global objectives while remaining responsive to regional and cross-regional business needs.
• Act as a senior contributor to global treasury strategy and future-state operating model design, driving thought leadership and innovation to enhance processes, controls, data, and execution in support of scale, growth, and increasing business complexity.
• Capture and share lessons learned from transactions and treasury initiatives to strengthen global best practices.
• Lead and develop a high-performing EMEA treasury team, fostering accountability and continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted treasury partner to investment teams, deal teams, finance, legal, tax, operations, and technology across EMEA and globally.
• Lead EMEA Treasury commercialization strategy.
• Build strong, proactive relationships with senior internal stakeholders, balancing commercial outcomes with risk and control considerations.
• Maintain close connectivity with global treasury leadership, ensuring alignment, consistency, and effective knowledge sharing across regions.
• Manage relationships with external banks, custodians, payment providers, and service partners, representing KKR at a senior level.
• Communicate complex treasury matters clearly and effectively to senior management and non-treasury audiences.
• Maintain a strong risk and controls mindset, ensuring treasury activities meet the highest standards of governance and compliance.
• Lead and continuously strengthen payment security and fraud prevention frameworks.
• Ensure treasury policies, controls, and procedures are robust, well-documented, and consistently applied across EMEA.
• Proactively identify and mitigate emerging risks related to liquidity, counterparties, payments, custody, and operating models.
• Balance fast-paced deal execution with disciplined risk management and control integrity.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• 10+ years of relevant experience, ideally within Alternative Asset Management, Treasury Services, Operations, Consulting, or similarly complex financial environments.
• Strong expertise in treasury, liquidity management, funding, and cash operations across multi-jurisdictional structures.
• Experience supporting complex, multi-stakeholder deal closings, including payments, custody, and securities settlement across asset classes.
• Knowledge of Private Markets, Corporate Bonds, Mortgage‑Backed Securities, and Equities.
• Experience working with complex alternative asset fund structures.
• Strong understanding of Treasury Management Systems and modern payment solutions.
• Experience managing outsourced service providers, banks, and custodians.
• Demonstrated change management capability, with a track record of driving process, technology, or operating model transformation.
• High level of attention to detail, particularly in relation to payment controls and fraud prevention.
• Strong organizational, communication, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment, with comfort operating under ambiguity.
• Exposure to banking markets and regulatory environments.
• Undergraduate and/or postgraduate level education with a strong academic record.

Critical Competencies for Success

• Accountable, with a strong sense of professionalism and integrity.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for innovation.
• A proven change agent, willing to roll up sleeves while also demonstrating strategic leadership.
• Highly organized, efficient, and able to deliver in a high‑pressure environment.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills across the firm.
• Strong appreciation of brand, reputation, and communication of value creation.
• Process‑ and technology‑oriented, with a focus on scalable, future‑ready operating models.