Treasury Manager - Accounting & Tax in London

Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for a Treasury Manager - Accounting & Tax to be based in London, UK. The Treasury Manager will lead and optimise Red Bull’s transactional finance and cash operations across the UK & Ireland, with the role sitting at the heart of the Accounting & Tax team, ensuring liquidity, cash discipline, banking efficiency, and world‑class transactional controls in a high‑volume, fast‑moving FMCG environment.

You will be responsible for daily cash management, local banking oversight, payment governance, working capital optimisation, and treasury‑related process transformation. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong cross‑functional leadership, working across all aspects of the business. You will take ownership of the strategic and tactical direction of the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Risk functions, working closely with Accounting & Tax managers to ensure operational excellence, whilst partnering with key internal stakeholders across Marketing, Operations and Commercial activities. The role will drive and execute Red Bull’s overall working capital strategy in line with Red Bull’s Global Accounting & Treasury policies.

You will do this by maintaining and developing a best-in-class team of finance professionals that bring transactional finance to life through a philosophy of active business partnering and personal development. The role is also required engagement in initiatives and projects outside of the traditional Transactional Finance environment, that challenge the status quo, supporting Sales Controlling, Net Revenue Manager and Financial Accounting functions with value add activities and analysis.

Accounts Receivable & Credit Risk

• Define the strategic landscape for the AR team to support working‑capital improvement through DSO reduction, dispute resolution, customer term optimisation, and proactive reduction of any credit risk exposure across our customer portfolio.
• Connect the AR team to key stakeholders across Sales, Operations and NRM to influence a right-first-time mindset, promoting a AR to senior stakeholders and the commercial decision making process.
• Support the resource requirements of the team to develop a high‑performing AR function, embedding accountability, continuous improvement, and customer‑centric behaviours, challenging the status quo to deliver value across the OTC cycle.
• Partner with senior Sales, Commercial Finance, and Operations stakeholders to influence customer terms, ways of working and CPM invoice handling processes, highlighting and communicating risks and opportunities across the Commercial functions.
• Working with the Accounting team to maintain strong financial controls, governance, and audit compliance across all AR processes, ensuring accurate month‑end close and value adding reporting.
• Support in the creation of key reporting outputs that support senior level decision making.

Accounts Payable

• Define the strategic landscape for the AP team to support working‑capital efficiency and compliant payment processes, in line with HQ guidelines and local accounting requirements.
• Shape the AP operating model across multiple entities, ensuring clarity of roles, department operating plan and service level expectations across key partners in Beverage, Media House, Distribution Partner Market and Corporate Projects.
• Lead the roadmap for automation, standardisation, and process simplification, partnering with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to influence process efficiency across the full P2P lifecycle.
• Along with the AP Manager, embrace HQ led initiatives supporting local implementation of key value driving efficiencies, such as CRM management, process mining, and regulatory monitoring and screening.
• Own the AP control framework, ensuring robust governance, audit readiness, and compliance with financial, tax, and regulatory requirements, overseeing master data governance, fraud prevention controls and workflow integrity.
• Ensuring appropriate documentation is in place and visible.
• Support in the creation of key reporting outputs that support senior level decision making.

People Management, Stakeholders & Collaboration

• Be the figurehead of Transactional Finance, joining the dots across business units, bringing key teams and partners together.
• Create and champion a positive, inclusive, high‑performance culture where people feel supported, trusted, and motivated.
• Lead, coach, and develop the AP and AR managers, ensuring clear expectations, strong performance management, and meaningful career development opportunities.
• Build a Transactional Finance environment where teams are centered on accountability, service excellence, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Develop succession plans, talent pipelines, and capability frameworks to support long‑term functional maturity, ensuring the team is well structured and resourced to support business growth.

Operational DP Management Richmond Marketing

• Utilize local relationships across Accounting, Operations and Legal to ensure compliance to global DP Guidelines with respect to annual audits (preferably on site in Ireland), VAT and PE evaluation.
• Build credibility with local, HQ and Irish stakeholders as the point contact for all transactional aspects of the Distribution Partner relationship.
• Own the monthly GSVA, Actuals and Accruals review processes, ensuring compliance and accurate accounting records according to DP guidelines.
• Establish effective relationship with DP team in HQ supporting process and reporting enhancements to simplify the monthly accounting and operations processes.

Continuous Improvement & Projects

• Build and embed a continuous improvement culture where the team proactively identifies inefficiencies and owns solutions through available process mining initiatives.
• Develop and deliver a structured continuous improvement roadmap covering areas for improvement, optimisation, automation, and standardisation.
• Use data driven insights, KPIs, and process analytics to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements in cycle time, accuracy, and service quality.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate has strong experience leading AP, AR, and Credit teams in a fast-paced environment, with a clear track record of improving billing, collections, supplier management, and payment processes. You should understand transactional finance’s performance affects Financial Accounting and drives effective cashflow and working capital and can turn operational data into meaningful insight for the business. Experience of Treasury controls, audit readiness, fraud prevention, and financial governance, along with hands‑on experience using ERP systems (preferably SAP) and automation tools. Experience of delivering process implementations or continuous improvement initiatives and can operate confidently in a subsidiary business. Strong people leadership is essential, with the ability to build high‑performing teams and influence stakeholders across Finance, Commercial, Operations, and Procurement.

At Red Bull, we exist to give people wiiings. To achieve that, we recognise the value that comes from having a highly diverse workforce that has the freedom and responsibility to realise their ideas and seize opportunities. We make recruiting decisions based on experience, skills, potential and talent: everyone is welcome here.