Assistant Group Treasury Manager – Projects (12‑Month Fixed Term Contract)
At IVC Evidensia, we are a leading veterinary services provider in Europe and North America with more than 2,500 clinics and hospitals across 19 countries and around 42,000 employees. We aim to have an extraordinary impact on animal lives, supporting around 25,000 animals every single day across our international network. IVC Evidensia exists to champion the long‑term health and welfare of animals and deliver our purpose of Healthy Animals, Happy Owners.
We are seeking a highly capable, autonomous Treasury professional to join our team on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract. Acting as the operational engine for the Group Treasury Manager – Projects, you will drive the transition of our banking operations processes to a best‑in‑class controlled environment, maturing the control environment in line with a group of our size and complexity.
As the Group continues to grow through acquisitions, this programme is focused on building a banking control environment that is scalable, consistent and repeatable, enabling faster onboarding of new businesses while reducing operational risk across a complex, multi‑country footprint.
In this role you will provide the dedicated, hands‑on capacity needed to stabilise the Group's banking foundations. Reporting to the Group Treasury Manager – Projects, you will take ownership of specific project workstream delivery, driving comprehensive assessment and remediation, and operational oversight. By autonomously executing these tasks you will help reinforce Group Treasury as a commercially focused function supported by its Treasury Management System (TMS), payment and liquidity architecture and control frameworks.
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities
* Project Execution: Manage day‑to‑day project milestones and deliverables for assigned workstreams, proactively navigating roadblocks to ensure consistent progress.
* Programme Governance: Maintain workstream plans, develop RAID logs and dependencies, producing clear updates for senior stakeholders to enable quicker, safer integration of new entities.
* Policy Implementation: Support the drafting and rollout of a comprehensive Group Banking Policy, embedding preventative and detective controls for mandates and direct debits.
* Standardised Playbooks: Translate policy into practical “playbooks” and templates that local teams and newly acquired businesses can adopt with minimal friction.
* AI‑Driven Efficiency: Leverage artificial intelligence (AI) where feasible to process fragmented data, draft procedural documentation, automate the categorisation of banking records, and develop advanced queries to identify anomalies within large datasets.
* Embed a clear RACI matrix across the Group, eliminating fragmented accountabilities.
* Define control owners, handoffs and escalation routes so controls remain effective during change (e.g., acquisitions, restructures, system migrations).
Operational Excellence & Oversight
* Supervisory Oversight: Provide first‑level review supporting data collection and remediation efforts.
* Access & Security Controls: Execute formal periodic access reviews and ensure system‑embedded dual‑authorisation protocols are functioning for all electronic banking portals.
* Operational Standardisation: Standardise reconciliation and control routines (frequency, ownership, ageing and break resolution) so newly acquired entities can be brought onto a common rhythm rapidly.
Bank Account Rationalisation & M&A Integration
* Account Rationalisation: Apply strict closure criteria to drive the deactivation of legacy bank accounts, tracking and reporting progress across the global portfolio of approximately 1,600 accounts.
* Subsidiary Engagement & Acquisitions: Actively support the onboarding of newly acquired businesses and engage with historically resistant subsidiaries to gather data for seamless integration of operational bank accounts into the Group's control framework.
* Acquisition Onboarding Toolkit: Implement repeatable onboarding templates (data pack, access model, mandate standards, reconciliation expectations) to reduce time‑to‑control for new acquisitions.
* Fee Standardisation: Conduct the initial review, benchmarking and validation of global bank fees to support cost and service optimisation negotiations with strategic banking partners, mitigating related financial, compliance and operational risks.
Experience / Qualifications
Essential
* Minimum 3+ years of experience in a Corporate Treasury or Banking Operations environment, featuring management, supervisory or dedicated project execution experience.
* Control Mindset: Practical experience implementing or remediating financial control frameworks within a complex, multi‑country organisation.
* Systems Fluency: Advanced Excel skills and experience configuring access controls within a TMS and/or electronic banking platforms, with working knowledge of systems like Kyriba.
* AI Literacy: Ideally, practical experience using AI tooling and prompt engineering to process large datasets, structure information and accelerate administrative project tasks.
* Integration Experience: Ideally, exposure to acquisition integration, decentralised operating models or bringing local teams onto a common standard.
Desirable
* Autonomous "Fixer" Mentality: Excels at working independently to identify process gaps and implement structured, sustainable solutions.
* Stakeholder Management: Strong interpersonal skills to influence cross‑functional teams and drive proactive engagement across decentralised subsidiaries.
* Commercial Acumen: Ability to interpret complex financial data and translate it into actionable reporting to support the Group Treasury Manager – Projects and wider Treasury team.
As a BAME, LGBTQ+ and Disability‑Confident inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups and will discuss reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
What We Offer
* Competitive base salary
* Work‑life balance support
* 26 days annual leave
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Employee well‑being initiatives
* Pension scheme
* Discretionary bonus
* Discounted staff pet care
* Dog‑friendly office
* Free parking available at Head Office
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