Treasury Manager - Back Office in Woking

Nomad Foods is a leading frozen foods company with annual revenues of approximately ₠3 billion. The Group has built a global portfolio of best-in-class food companies and iconic brands within the frozen food category. Our well-known brands include Birdseye, Findus, igloo, Aunt Bessie's and Goodfella's. The Group's Head Office is located in Woking.

The Group Treasury Team operates through a clearly defined front-office and back-office structure, supported by a dedicated treasury accounting and reporting function. The treasury team embraces a flexible Hybrid working model, typically attending the office 2-3 days per week to promote effective collaboration, face-to-face interaction with other team members, other Head Office functions, banking relationship meetings or on an 'as needs' basis.

The Treasury Manager Back Office plays a critical role within the Treasury function, with primary responsibilities for managing risk and compliance. The role focuses on operational controls, KYC and AML requirements and robust oversight of daily activities, accesses and records across the group based on the Treasury Governance & Control Framework. The role ensures that all transactional activity, banking arrangements, payments, mandates and credit facilities are timely organised and executed to support smooth efficient day-to-day treasury operations in line with best-practice standards.

Strong investigative skills, attention to detail and the ability to question, problem-solve and elevate issues accordingly, are key attributes required for this role to ensure clarity, consistency, and full compliance with the Group's control framework. This is a hands-on role that requires a proactive, solution-driven approach and strong 'can do' attitude. The successful individual will be encouraged to contribute to the refinement and continuous improvements of back-office processes and operational practices. The position offers the opportunity to serve as a key participant and contributor on several ongoing and upcoming treasury transformation projects, providing valuable exposure to systems, automation and process-enhancement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary administrator for all banking portals and Treasury systems
• Ensure timely payment approvals and accuracy of settlement instructions across all systems
• Manage all Treasury Vendors, including oversight of contracts, renewal, budget and POs creation in Ariba
• Maintain and update bank mandates and authorized signatories for all group bank accounts
• Oversee the issuance, administration, and renewal of Bank guarantees
• Support the annual SWIFT Attestation process
• Coordinate and respond to banks KYC and AML requirements
• Manage the bank accounts lifecycle, including opening, closures, structural oversight and related controls documentation
• Conduct bank fee analysis and reconciliation to ensure accuracy and cost efficiency
• Support the execution of 'one off' manual payments supporting other functions
• Administer Nomad Groups global cash pooling arrangements, including margins review
• Act as a key contributor to banking related projects and relevant documentation
• Lead the review, design, implementation and migration of liquidity structures across banking partners
• Support the Nomad loans administration, including loan drawdowns and principal, interest and fee payments
• Manage FX dealing mandates, settlements, confirmations and trade book information for appropriate treasury reporting
• Oversee the effective operation of banking payment platforms, including templates governance, user access management, audit reports, and process automation initiatives
• Assist or develop into supporting counterparty credit risk management analysis and reporting
• Management and support on credit card programs within the business

Qualifications

Essential

• Minimum of 3/4 years Treasury experience
• Very competent skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Experienced in banking systems, both from an input and administrator perspective
• Broad knowledge and experience in most aspects of back-office control and risk management
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to work with large data sets/excel models
• Comfortable with deadlines and organising workload
• Intra-day operational treasury
• Team player
• Good communication skills

Desirable

• Degree Educated
• CertICM
• SOX back-office reporting experience
• S4 Hannah Bank platforms administration
• Salmon Swift
• Ariba
• 360T trading platform
• ICD platform
• Bloomberg
• Refinitiv
• ION