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 in the region of 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 be instrumental in transitioning our banking operations processes to a "best-in-class" controlled environment, ensuring our control environment is matured 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. You will also play a key operational role in ensuring that our rapid acquisition pipeline is supported by a scalable, secure, and transparent banking infrastructure.

Through a Finance, People, Process and Platform lens, you will help embed clear governance, control ownership and repeatable ways of working-so the Group can onboard, integrate and govern banking operations quickly and safely as it scales.

This role is initially being offered on a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract basis.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

Project Execution, Governance & AI Integration

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-focusing on what enables quicker, safer integration of new entities

Policy Implementation: support the drafting and rollout of a comprehensive Group Banking Policy, helping to embed preventative and detective controls for mandates and direct debits

Standardised Playbooks: translate policy into practical "how we do it here" playbooks and templates that local teams and newly acquired businesses can adopt with minimal friction

AI-Driven Efficiency: where feasible, leverage artificial intelligence to process fragmented data, draft procedural documentation, automate the categorisation of banking records, and develop advanced queries to identify anomalies within large datasets

Help embed a clear RACI matrix across the Group, eliminating fragmented accountabilities

Control Ownership: define control owners, handoffs and escalation routes so controls remain effective during change, such as acquisitions, restructures and 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, including 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 to support the seamless integration of operational bank accounts into the Group's control framework

Acquisition Onboarding Toolkit: implement repeatable onboarding templates, including data pack, access model, mandate standards and 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-related financial, compliance and operational risks, and implement effective mitigation plans

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 Fluent: advanced Excel skills and experience configuring access controls within a TMS and/or electronic banking platforms, with a working knowledge of systems like Kyriba

AI Literacy: ideally, practical experience of 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: someone who 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<