Group Treasury Senior Manager, Systems & Processes
About Flutter Entertainment:
Flutter is a FTSE 30 global leader in sports betting and gaming with annual revenues of c. £8bn. Its strong and diverse portfolio of market-leading brands and best-in-class products provides its 18 million customers excitement and entertainment in a safe and responsible way. Brands include Paddy Power, Sky Betting & Gaming, Betfair, Tombola, Sportsbet, BetEasy, FoxBet, FanDuel, PokerStars and SISAL.
The group, built on a proven track record and brand leadership, is the largest online betting and gaming operator globally. This highly diversified business benefits from proven cross-selling capabilities and leading technology platforms that enables it to build a strong core business and accelerate its international growth.
Our strategy is to deliver and defend gold medal positions in existing businesses as well as ensuring continued cultivation of an innovative mindset to capitalise on future potential opportunities. Our priorities are set out across four pillars and recognise the role Flutter plays as a responsible global leader by placing sustainability at the heart of everything we do with a sustainability strategy, our Positive Impact Plan.
Our four-pillar strategy will drive the growth of a more diversified and sustainable business:
- Grow our gold medal positions in core markets - focus on growing our recreational customer base efficiently, using local scale to unlock synergistic benefits across our core markets.
- Invest to win in the US - building on the gold medal FanDuel has won in the US we will extend our leadership position and continue to win as new states regulate.
- Build on our network and invest for leadership positions across international markets - buying and building podium positions across our international markets, we will combine global scale with local presence to deliver sustainable growth and maximise the network benefits of our poker and exchange products.
- Future – to create the future we will take early positions to realise the potential of future opportunities.
Role purpose:
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Reporting to the Group Treasurer, this key role has strategic responsibility for treasury technology on a global basis. - Systems play a key role in our treasury transformation project, and the role has full responsibility for enhancing existing treasury systems and processes on Flutter Treasury’s journey of continual improvement to be best in class. The group is implementing an in-house bank based on a liquidity structure with virtual accounts and will leverage this to further centralise treasury cash management and operations across the group.
- The role requires working closely with treasury and finance colleagues to understand the needs of the organisation and has specific focus on the latest trends/developments and offers from our banking and other core technology partners.
- The role is suited to individuals with strong project management & technical ability, and demonstrable interpersonal, communication and networking skills. Extensive experience of treasury and banking systems for a large multinational company is essential.
Accountabilities will include:
- Lead on transformational systems & process enhancements, including the implementation of an in-house bank structure and a payment transaction monitoring system, working closely with banks, system vendors, consultants and treasury and finance colleagues.
- Leverage treasury technology to further rationalise the group’s underlying banking infrastructure, utilising the group‘s most capable banking partners and enable the centralisation of the group’s cash management and payments processes.
- Review and analyse the effectiveness & efficiency of group treasury systems, interfaces & associated controls, seeking the opportunity to automate & reduce manual processing wherever possible.
- Evaluate, configure & deploy new systems and application modules, enhancements to existing systems & applications, to introduce efficiencies & strengthen controls.
- Liaise closely with the Group Finance Systems team to ensure alignment of priorities during a global Oracle ERP roll-out.
- Oversee & manage the network of existing systems & interfaces that the support daily operations of the treasury function (including FIS Integrity, Bottomline Swift Service Bureau, Bloomberg, FX All, SWIFT, banking platforms).
- Cultivate and develop relationships with the group’s banking partners & software suppliers, particularly in respect of matters pertaining to treasury systems & technology offerings.
- Collaborate with members of the Treasury team, the Finance Systems team, the IT Architecture team and software suppliers in respect of treasury systems & interfaces.
- Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of application-usage best practices.
- Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users and team members.
- Develop TMS reporting in line with user requirements.
- Lead and develop two treasury professionals & contribute to a high-performance culture across the team.
- Any other duties as assigned.
Key Requirements/Experience:
- Treasury / banking professional, with at least 5 years of relevant treasury and/or banking experience. Accountancy qualification an advantage.
- Proven experience in overseeing the strategic direction, development, and implementation of treasury software solutions.
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modelling/mapping, methodology development, and data mapping.
- At least 3 years proven people management experience.
- Ability to build strong networks and relationships with internal and external parties.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, and ability to convey ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
- Flexible, enjoying a frequently changing environment with a positive attitude and desire to constantly improve.
- Proactivity and innovation – highly self-motivated and directed.
- Strong time management, organisational and multi-tasking skills.
- High level of attention to detail.
