What You’ll Do
- Values-driven leadership: You take end-to-end ownership of Treasury, acting as a high-trust role model who leads with humility and radical honesty
- Operational excellence through accountability: You oversee day-to-day operations with a relentless focus on collective results, ensuring accuracy and efficiency are team benchmarks
- Curious & Data-Driven: You possess a genuine hunger to understand the "why" behind the numbers, diving deep into behavioral data to ensure our liquidity strategy is built on solid foundations
- Architect of transparent governance: You design KPIs and Risk Frameworks that provide the clarity and "buy-in" necessary for the firm to progress with complete confidence
- Strategic automation driver: You utilize technology to eliminate manual friction, driving the functional tech strategy and holding the function accountable for delivering
- Collaborative relationship builder: You cultivate banking and counterparty relationships through authentic connection, ensuring external partners are aligned with our mission
- Cross-functional partner: You work seamlessly cross-functionally, breaking down silos to ensure operational excellence and positive commercial outcomes are a shared victory
- Accountable regulatory guardian: You take full ownership of critical reporting (ICARA, MIF), ensuring our regulatory standing is beyond reproach through meticulous attention to detail
- Commercially sharp strategic advisor: You translate complex financial data into actionable insights for senior management, driving high-stakes outcomes like M&A, funding plans, and IPO readiness
- Voice of healthy conflict: As a key member of the Treasury Management Committee, you lean into challenging debates to ensure the best decisions are made for the company
Being a Head of at Moneybox doesn’t just mean you own and manage your function, it means you play a vital role in helping define company strategy through cross-functional steering committees, quarterly planning meetings, and management committees. Moneybox has thrived owing to its strong culture; as a Head of, you are core in helping maintain this culture through living and promoting the Moneybox values.
The role is a trusted advisor to the VP Finance, but also has direct exposure to our Chief Executive Officers and Chief Operating Officer. You’re expected to deliver in the role:
Who you are
- Results-first leader: You possess an ego-less approach to success, instinctively prioritizing collective company outcomes over personal or functional ambition
- Cross-functional catalyst: You thrive in shared-goal environments, understanding that true accountability means bridging silos to ensure the entire team wins, not just your department.
- Hungry & intellectually curious: You bring an exceptional work ethic and a "thirst for knowledge" that drives you to constantly improve yourself and the systems around you
- Action-Oriented: You have the acumen to translate high-level strategy into tangible outputs, ensuring that "commitment" isn't just a word, but a measurable result
- Collaborative Communicator: You build trust by being radically honest—admitting mistakes and asking for help—and you prefer healthy debate to reach the best outcomes
Experience and Skills
- Credentialed Excellence: You hold a professional qualification that proves your technical rigour—whether it’s an ACA, CFA, or ACT.
- Liquidity Mastery: Beyond just managing cash, you’ve mastered the art of strategically deploying significant capital to balance safety with return.
- Data Translation: As a natural "data translator," you turn complex datasets into sharp, commercially savvy moves that drive the business forward.
- Regulatory Navigation: Having successfully navigated high-stakes landscapes, you bring deep familiarity with ICARA, ICAAP, or ILAAP frameworks.
- CASS Stewardship: With a robust understanding of CASS compliance, you ensure the integrity and protection of client assets is never compromised.
- People-First Leadership: You bring a proven track record of mentoring high-performing teams and fostering long-term professional growth.
- Thriving Under Pressure: You excel in high-velocity settings, staying calm, focused, and effective when the pace picks up.
- Strategic Communication: Distilling complex financial truths for C-suite stakeholders comes naturally to you; you are an excellent communicator who can command a room.
What’s In It For You?
- Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious company
- Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals
- Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact
- Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture
- Company pension scheme
- Company bonus scheme
- Hybrid working environment – by the Oxo Tower
- Home office furniture allowance
- Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Cash Plan – cashback on everyday healthcare like dental and opticians
- Cycle to work scheme – spread the cost of a new bike and accessories
- CycleSaver – save on bike-share subscriptions and have a more sustainable commute
- Wellhub subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
- Enhanced parental pay & leave
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.
Skills Required
- Professional qualification (ACA, CFA, or ACT)
- Proven experience managing liquidity and strategically deploying significant capital
- Familiarity with ICARA, ICAAP or ILAAP regulatory frameworks
- Experience owning regulatory reporting (ICARA, MIF) and ensuring compliance
- Robust understanding of CASS compliance and client asset protection
- Track record of leading, mentoring and growing high-performing teams
- Experience building KPIs, risk frameworks and governance for treasury
- Ability to drive treasury automation and use technology to remove manual processes
- Experience managing banking and counterparty relationships
- Ability to translate financial data into strategic advice for senior management (M&A, funding, IPO readiness)
What We Do
At Moneybox, we help you turn your money into something greater. Millions of us want to achieve more with our money. But whether we’re looking to save for a rainy day, grow our money, buy a home, or even build a retirement fund, we leave it at the bottom of our to-do lists because we're not sure how to get started. This isn’t surprising. We aren’t taught about financial planning at school, the wealth industry was built to serve a minority, and it often feels like banks don’t care about helping us achieve outcomes. To top it off, the financial services industry is fragmented and confusing. This means that our money often isn’t working hard enough and our goals are much harder to achieve. So, we made a solution. We've brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services together into one simple app. So people can reach their goals and build wealth with confidence, whatever their starting point. We want to help people build wealth, but our mission goes beyond that. We believe that building wealth isn’t simply about accumulating more money. It’s about going after the life you want and enjoying it to the fullest, today and tomorrow. This is what it means to turn your money into something greater.
