Treasury Supervisor

A leading organisation in Manchester is seeking a Treasury Team Leader to guide their Transactional Treasury team through the complexities of cash and banking activities across a multi-entity environment.

This role offers you the opportunity to become the subject matter expert for operational treasury issues, collaborating with Finance, As a Treasury Team Leader based in Manchester, your day-to-day responsibilities will centre on guiding your team through complex cash management tasks while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. You will oversee all aspects of daily cash operations-ensuring payments are processed accurately across numerous bank accounts in various currencies-and take ownership of prompt reconciliations.

Key duties include:
Lead, coach, and nurture a team of four by setting clear objectives, conducting regular one-to-one meetings, facilitating team discussions, and offering timely feedback to support professional development. Oversee daily cash and banking operations across multiple entities, ensuring all payments, receipts, transfers, and bank postings are processed accurately and within required time frames. Ensure prompt reconciliation of bank accounts and relevant balance sheet accounts by investigating cash discrepancies, unmatched items, and aged reconciling items to resolve issues effectively.

Act as the subject matter expert for operational treasury and cash-management issues by providing guidance to colleagues, resolving escalations swiftly, and coordinating dispute resolution processes. Complete monthly treasury controls in accordance with the Finance control framework by evidencing reviews, escalating exceptions when necessary, and driving corrective actions to maintain compliance. Produce and analyse Treasury KPIs, management information reports, and ad hoc analyses to highlight service performance trends, control issues, cash exceptions, and opportunities for improvement.

Collaborate with transformation teams and process stakeholders to design new business processes or systems by testing solutions thoroughly and ensuring adoption across the team for sustained change. Build strong collaborative relationships across Finance departments and the wider business to enhance data quality, strengthen internal controls, standardise procedures, and deliver exceptional service. Prioritise team capacity and daily Treasury activities by balancing competing deadlines across payment cycles, entities, bank accounts, and currencies to ensure operational continuity.

Evaluate proposed process or system changes by assessing operational risks involved so that critical Treasury services remain uninterrupted during transitions. The ideal candidate for the Treasury Team Leader position brings substantial experience from operational Treasury roles within complex organisations. Your proven ability to lead teams through coaching sessions-setting objectives-offering developmental feedback-will be crucial in nurturing talent. You possess deep knowledge of cash positioning techniques: payment processing protocols;

bank account administration; foreign-currency transactions; plus reconciliation methods. Ideally you will have experience in the following areas:
Significant experience within operational Treasury or cash management in a medium-sized or large multi-entity organisation is essential for this role. Proven track record of leading teams effectively through coaching sessions, performance management practices such as objective setting or development planning. Strong understanding of daily cash positioning techniques including payment processing protocols; bank account administration; foreign-currency transactions; plus bank/balance sheet reconciliations.

A controls-focused mindset demonstrated by experience investigating exceptions or resolving complex discrepancies while supporting both internal/external audit requirements. Ability to operate as a credible subject matter expert who communicates clear recommendations to senior stakeholders including Finance colleagues or banking partners. Experience producing/interpreting KPIs alongside management information/ad hoc analysis that supports performance monitoring/decision-making processes. Demonstrable experience driving process improvements such as standardisation/automation/embedding change collaboratively with operational/transformation stakeholders.

Working knowledge of SAP systems/banking platforms combined with strong Microsoft Excel…