Cash Management Manager - BPL

Role Overview

Cash Management Manager – lead the design, build, and operation of the firm’s end‑to‑end cash management capability within a UK‑regulated Electronic Money Institution (EMI). Responsible for daily cash flows exceeding £1billion, develop a robust framework, oversee forecasting, positioning, tools, controls, and collaborate with banking partners to optimise liquidity and achieve an efficient cash position.

• Develop and implement funding and liquidity strategies meeting regulatory requirements and risk appetite.
• Analyse and quantify regulatory and behavioural liquidity risk impact of transactions undertaken by business units.
• Maintain strong relationships with key business units to manage liquidity within constraints.
• Monitor liquidity metrics and trends, and advise actions to maintain funding and liquidity levels within tolerance.
• Ensure intra‑group funding arrangements keep subsidiaries adequately funded while adhering to balance sheet exposure and capital constraints.
• Design and implement stress‑testing methodologies for liquidity resilience and develop mitigation strategies.
• Develop new tools, models, and data analysis to support and enhance funding and liquidity management capabilities.
• Manage daily cash flows over £1billion, establishing a scalable framework from the ground up.
• Oversee cash forecasting, positioning, and the implementation of controls.
• Coordinate with banking partners to optimise liquidity arrangements, maintain connectivity, and implement intraday liquidity facilities.
• Maximise interest income, minimise funding and operational costs, and maintain efficient cash positions.
• Oversee banking administration, support bank relationship management, and coordinate KYC and due‑diligence requests.
• Lead cross‑functional collaboration to ensure alignment with business strategies.

The role requires a clear set of leadership behaviours:
Listen and be authentic
, Energise and inspire
, Align across the enterprise
, and Develop others
. The manager may oversee a team, define responsibilities, plan resources and budgets, and deliver continuous improvements.

• Experience with in payments, especially cash management, treasury operations or liquidity management.
• Deep understanding of cash flow management, liquidity and funding in a high‑volume, time‑critical environment.
• Proven ability to design and implement processes, controls and strategy, building capabilities from scratch.
• Commercial mindset balancing interest revenue, cost and risk.
• Experience with in an EMI, payment institution or other FCA‑regulated payments business.
• Knowledge of UK and EU payment schemes (Bacs, Faster Payments, CHAPS, SEPA) and intra‑day liquidity mechanisms.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, influencing and negotiating skills.

Position is within Barclaycard Payments, part of Barclays’ growing payments acceptance business. The role offers a dynamic, high‑visibility environment and opportunities to shape critical capabilities.