AddressCash and Banking Manager
£56,500 to £74,500 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5) Temporary role, 12 month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment
Manchester city centre, hybrid working 2 days a week in the office
We’re looking for a Cash and Banking Manager to join Co-op Business Services (CBS) and provide crucial financial assistance for our colleagues across the business. You’ll be guiding the Cash and Banking team through large-scale transformation projects and making sure our colleagues always deliver a great service. Over the next two years we’re upgrading our business to make it fit for the future. It’s a big job. But when we get it right, it’s got even bigger benefits for our colleagues, members and customers.
As a Cash and Banking Manager, you’ll be recognised as an expert in your field and have a key role to play in defining the CBS banking and treasury strategy. If you can inspire a team, meet challenging deadlines, and have experience working in a shared services environment, we can offer you the chance to build a career with a business that always puts people at the heart of its strategy.
- Lead a large team, through a significant period of change, verifying reconciliation and control of all Cash and Banking across Co-op Funeralcare Services
- Make sure that queries from our senior leaders are resolved quickly and accurately by the team, reporting on key trends and escalating issues if necessary
- Work towards agreed timescales and cash optimisation targets agreed with our senior business leaders
- Support successful internal and external audits
- Build strong working relationships with senior leaders across the different business areas
- Mentor, guide and inspire the team, identifying areas of improvement and encouraging personal development
- An accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), which is essential
- Proven leadership experience, with great people skills and the ability to inspire a team, whilst delivering change programmes within a large organisation
- Previous banking experience within a shared services environment and a strong financial control background
- Experience defining and delivering financial strategy
- Strong relationship building skills with the ability to operate with senior leaders across the business, challenging and influencing where necessary
Why Co-op?
Here you’ll do work that matters. We’re a commercial organisation with a purpose beyond profit, you’ll have an opportunity to help us build a stronger Co-op and stronger communities. You’ll also get a package that includes:
- Competitive salary
- Coaching, training and support to help you develop
- Pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Annual incentive scheme
- Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service)
- Discounts on Co-op products and services
Building an inclusive work environment
At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.
Please note that we may close applications for this role early.
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