Cash & Banking Operations Lead

Location – Warrington (WA3 6UT).

The Finance Team Manager role is a is a key position in the Control & Risk team and is key to delivering a Finance Centre of Excellence based in one location in Warrington.

You will play a key role in a Finance Centre of Excellence (CoE) because you’ll sit at the intersection of liquidity management, financial control, operational efficiency, and risk management. While many finance programmes focus on reporting and analytics, cash remains the lifeblood of the organisation, making effective banking and cash operations critical to business performance.

You will lead and manage all banking and cash operation activities, ensuring optimal liquidity management, accurate cash reporting, robust financial controls, and effective relationships with banking partners. The role also supports the organisation's working capital objectives and provides strategic oversight of cash flow, treasury operations, and banking services.

What you will be doing:

Cash Management & Liquidity

• Oversee daily cash positioning across all bank accounts.


• Monitor liquidity requirements and ensure sufficient funding is available to meet operational needs.


• Identify opportunities to improve cash utilisation and reduce borrowing costs.

Banking Operations

• Manage relationships with banking partners and financial institutions.


• Lead bank account administration, including opening, closing, and maintenance of accounts.


• Oversee electronic banking platforms and payment systems.


• Negotiate banking services, fees, and contractual agreements.


• Ensure efficient execution of payment, collection, and reconciliation processes.

Financial Controls & Risk Management

• Implement and maintain robust controls over cash and banking activities.


• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and audit standards.


• Monitor bank mandates, user access rights, and segregation of duties.


• Manage fraud prevention controls and investigate unusual transactions.


• Support internal and external audit activities.

Treasury & Payment Operations

• Oversee payment processing, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.


• Manage domestic and international payment activities.


• Coordinate funding transfers and intercompany cash movements.


• Support foreign exchange and treasury activity where applicable.


• Ensure reconciliation of bank accounts and resolution of outstanding items.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Drive automation and digitisation of cash management processes.


• Implement treasury management systems and banking technologies.


• Standardise banking and cash management procedures.


• Identify efficiency opportunities and reduce manual intervention.


• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across cash operations.

Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop banking and cash operations team members.


• Establish performance objectives and monitor service delivery.

What do I need to be successful?

If you have the following skills and experience, we want to hear from you:

• Strong treasury, cash management, or banking operations experience.


• Knowledge of cash forecasting, liquidity management, and working capital.


• Experience with banking platforms, ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, etc.), and Treasury Management Systems.


• Strong understanding of financial controls and risk management.


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.


• Advanced analytical and problem-solving capability.


• Experience leading operational teams and transformation initiatives.

We are RS Integrated Supply.

Across the industrial design, manufacturing and maintenance worlds, we’re the digital destination for product and service solutions to help our customers with the maintenance, repair and operation of their businesses.

RS Integrated Supply is one of the world’s leading providers of Integrated Supply Solutions to manufacturing industries for the provision of MRO (indirect) products. Our portfolio consists of Procurement Services, Transactional Processing, Stores Management and Inventory Optimisation enabled by industry leading digital platforms. We deliver world class results to world class companies in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Foods, Beverage, Automotive and Aerospace.

We are one team. We deliver brilliantly. We do the right thing. We make every day better. These are our values. They unite our c.9,000 global colleagues and differentiate us from our competition. They are a mix of how we work today and how we must step up for the future. Most importantly, it is one set of values shaped by our people, for our people.

Together, we can make great things happen. Aim for amazing and beyond.