Treasury Manager - Accounting & Tax

We are currently recruiting for a Treasury Manager - Accounting & Tax to be based in London, UK. The successful candidate will lead and optimise Red Bull's transactional finance and cash operations across the UK & Ireland, with the role sitting at the heart of the Accounting & Tax team.

The Treasury Manager will be responsible for daily cash management, local banking oversight, payment governance, working capital optimisation, and treasury-related process transformation. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong cross-functional leadership, working across all aspects of the business.

The successful candidate will take ownership of the strategic and tactical direction of the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Risk functions, working closely with Accounting & Tax managers to ensure operational excellence, whilst partnering with key internal stakeholders across Marketing, Operations and Commercial activities. The role will drive and execute Red Bull's overall working capital strategy in line with Red Bull's Global Accounting & Treasury policies.

The role involves leading a team of finance professionals, with a focus on active business partnering and personal development. The successful candidate will also engage in initiatives and projects outside of the traditional Transactional Finance environment, that challenge the status quo, supporting Sales Controlling, Net Revenue Manager and Financial Accounting functions with value add activities and analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Define the strategic landscape for the AR team to support working-capital improvement through DSO reduction, dispute resolution, customer term optimisation, and proactive reduction of any credit risk exposure across our customer portfolio.
• Connect the AR team to key stakeholders across Sales, Operations and NRM to influence a right-first-time mindset, promoting a AR to senior stakeholders and the commercial decision making process.
• Support the resource requirements of the team to develop a high-performing AR function, embedding accountability, continuous improvement, and customer-centric behaviours, challenging the status quo to deliver value across the OTC cycle.
• Partner with senior Sales, Commercial Finance, and Operations stakeholders to influence customer terms, ways of working and CPM invoice handling processes, highlighting and communicating risks and opportunities across the Commercial functions.
• Working with the Accounting team to maintain strong financial controls, governance, and audit compliance across all AR processes, ensuring accurate month-end close and value adding reporting.
• Support in the creation of key reporting outputs that support senior level decision making.

• Define the strategic landscape for the AP team to support working-capital efficiency and compliant payment processes, in line with HQ guidelines and local accounting requirements.
• Shape the AP operating model across multiple entities, ensuring clarity of roles, department operating plan and service level expectations across key partners in Beverage, Media House, Distribution Partner Market and Corporate Projects.
• Lead the roadmap for automation, standardisation, and process simplification, partnering with Procurement, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to influence process efficiency across the full P2P lifecycle.
• Along with the AP Manager, embrace HQ led initiatives supporting local implementation of key value driving efficiencies, such as CRM management, process mining, and regulatory monitoring and screening.
• Own the AP control framework, ensuring robust governance, audit readiness, and compliance with financial, tax, and regulatory requirements, overseeing master data governance, fraud prevention controls and workflow integrity. Ensuring appropriate documentation is in place and visible.
• Support in the creation of key reporting outputs that support senior level decision making.

• Be the figurehead of Transactional Finance, joining the dots across business units, bringing key teams and partners together.
• Create and champion a positive, inclusive, high-performance culture where people feel supported, trusted, and motivated
• Lead, coach, and develop the AP and AR managers, ensuring clear expectations, strong performance management, and meaningful career development opportunities.
• Build a Transactional Finance environment where teams are centered on accountability, service excellence, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Develop succession plans, talent pipelines, and capability frameworks to support long-term functional maturity, ensuring the team is well structured and resourced to support business growth.

• Utilize local relationships across Accounting, Operations and Legal to ensure compliance to global DP Guidelines with respect to annual audits (preferably on site in Ireland), VAT and PE evaluation.
• Build credibility with local, HQ and Irish stakeholders as the point contact for all transactional aspects of the Distribution Partner relationship.
• Own the monthly GSVA, Actuals and Accruals review processes, ensuring compliance and accurate accounting records according to DP guidelines
• Establish effective relationship with DP team in HQ supporting process and reporting enhancements to simplify the monthly accounting and operations processes.

• Build and embed a continuous improvement culture where the team proactively identifies inefficiencies and owns solutions through available process mining initiatives.
• Develop and deliver a structured continuous improvement roadmap covering areas for improvement, optimisation, automation, and standardisation
• Use data-driven insights, KPIs, and process analytics to identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements in cycle time, accuracy, and service quality.