About Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor is a leading global provider of professional services and technology solutions to the insurance industry.  We are a profitable, growing organisation that is highly regarded in the insurance industry, employing some of the industry’s ‘best in class’ professionals and technical experts.  Our services and solutions support every stage of the insurance lifecycle and every aspect of the insurance operating model, across all major commercial insurance lines as well as technical areas of personal insurance. We serve a diversified blue-chip international customer base that includes national and international insurance companies, mutuals, captives, MGAs, Lloyd's syndicates and reinsurers, along with brokers, distributors and corporate insureds.

Charles Taylor is PE-backed, following a majority investment by Lovell Minnick Partners in January 2020.

Our delivery of high quality, tailored services and solutions to our clients is backed by our core values of support, excellence in people, client partnership, quality of work, entrepreneurship and positive change.   We look for employees who exemplify these values to join us and help drive our growth.

For more information, please visit www.charlestaylor.com

Overall purpose of the job

The Senior Treasury Manager will manage and improve our day-to-day liquidity management, cash forecasting and day-to day operational treasury activities. This position would suit someone who is seeking a step-up role towards Head of Treasury as part of their career growth.  

This role will be responsible for ensuring all relevant group treasury activities of the group are performed effectively (cashflow forecasting process, liquidity management, foreign exchange management, maximizing cashflow in the key geographies internal controls and day-to day treasury).

This role will be based in London, and the expectation is that it will operate largely remotely, with a requirement to be in the office no more than 3-4 times a month.

Key responsibilities

The Senior Treasury Manager is responsible for

• Managing and providing insight to the Group’s 13-week short term cash flow forecast process and reporting and ensuring the output is produced accurately and on a timely basis
• Working effectively with finance teams across the Group to ensure there is sufficient cash in each jurisdiction to meet day to day and ongoing operating needs and that repatriations to Group are maximized
• Managing and minimizing foreign exchange risk and ensure strategies are in place within key geographies to maximize cash opportunities and minimize risks
• Managing and developing the Group Treasury Assistant
• Manage strategic and day-to-day banking relationships across the Group
• Monitoring the Group’s loan facilities and ensure that covenants are complied with according to the loan agreements
• Designing Group treasury policies and procedures and ensuring that internal controls relating to Treasury -are in place and operating effectively

Values

Our values define who we are, what we stand for and how we behave. They guide how we work with our colleagues and our clients, today and in the future. By living our values every day when we come to work, we deliver better results for the world of insurance.

Demonstrate and role model the Charles Taylor six Values by acting with responsibility and respect (Integrity), work better together (Collaboration), anticipate, prepare for, and adapt to change (Agility), are compassionate and human (Care) and take ownership (Accountability).

Ad hoc duties

As requested by your Line Manager or overall Director, the Job Holder will perform reasonable ad hoc duties within the Job Holder’s capabilities.

Person specification

• Qualified treasury (ACT) professional  having at least 5 years prior experience in treasury manager positions a focus on cash forecasting & liquidity management
• Experience of private equity and of working in a multi-currency environment with cash pooling experience and where systems and processes are not optimized
• Strong excel knowledge and an affinity with pulling data from systems
• High levels of resilience and used to working in a fast-paced organisation undergoing significant levels of change
• Demonstrable experience in driving process improvement and overseeing process and systems change in Treasury functions
• Robust knowledge of good practice in cash flow reporting and forecasting
• Ability and confidence in influencing key internal stakeholders at all levels of seniority across multiple geographies
• Experience in management of (particularly UK) banking relationships and loan facilities

Equal opportunity employer

At Charles Taylor, we are proud to be an Inclusive Employer. We provide an environment of mutual respect with zero tolerance to discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

Our external partnerships and the dedicated work we do in promoting a transparent and fair recruitment and selection process all contribute to the successful, inclusive and diverse culture and environment which we are proud to be a part of at Charles Taylor.

Contact information

Ankur Chowdhury