Role Purpose:

The Back Office Senior Manager will lead and optimise all back-office operations, ensuring accurate transaction processing, strong financial controls, regulatory compliance, and high-quality reporting to support effective treasury and business decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead all back-office operations, including payments, settlements, reconciliations, and bank account administration.

- Drive the optimisation and centralisation of the Back-office activities, including centralisation of Bank accounts and effective management of bank mandates.

- Design and maintain robust internal controls and governance frameworks.

- Manage operational, financial, and fraud risk, including segregation of duties.

- Lead internal and external audit engagements.

- Oversee daily cash positioning, liquidity reporting, and cash forecasting.

- Support FX, debt, and investment settlements in close partnership with Treasury.

- Good understanding of debt related documentation.

- Help to develop TMS system driving automation and straight-through processing.

- Lead system implementations for back-office processes, integrations, and data quality improvements.

- Deliver accurate operational and financial reporting, providing insight into liquidity and working capital.

- Manage Bank reconciliation activities.

- Manage KYC.

- Lead, develop, and mentor the back-office team, setting clear roles, KPIs, and performance expectations.

- Act as a key stakeholder interface with banks, auditors, Finance, and senior leadership.

Skills & Experience:

- Strong background in treasury operations, payments, settlements, and cash management.

- Experience with TMS and ERP platforms (e.g. Kyriba, SAP, Workday).

- Deep understanding of financial controls, audit, and compliance frameworks.

- Proven experience leading teams and driving process improvement.

- Comfortable operating in complex, multi-entity environments.

Personal Attributes:

- Highly detail-oriented and process-driven.

- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.

- Confident problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset.

- Resilient and effective in fast-changing environments.