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United Kingdom · Finance · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Treasury Analyst

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  • Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toSenior Treasury Analyst
  • UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as Mid-Level Treasury Associate · Cash Management Analyst · Finance Operations Analyst

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The qualifications matched to this job

iCQ Level 2 Certificate in Providing Financial Services (RQF) iCan Qualifications Limited · Level 2 · covers 1 of 3 standards
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Operating a multi-currency till iCQ Level 2 Certificate in Providing Financial Services (RQF)

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Data Fluency turning numbers into a decision

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3What this role really is

A treasury analyst tracks a business's cash, monitoring bank accounts, processing payments and working out the daily cash position. The role centres on making sure the business has the cash it needs, when it needs it.

4What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Excel (Power Query, XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables) Advanced

You'll be living in Excel, building and maintaining the daily cash position spreadsheet, performing variance analysis, and consolidating data. You'll follow existing models but also be able to build new ones from scratch.

Kyriba (Treasury Management System) Intermediate

You'll run daily reports, input manual wires, and perform basic reconciliations within Kyriba. You'll follow established procedures and know your way around the system for cash management and payments.

J.P. Morgan Access / CitiDirect BE / HSBCnet (Banking Portals) Intermediate

You'll pull daily bank statements (MT940s), initiate wire/ACH payments, and check balances across multiple accounts. You'll know the cut-off times like the back of your hand.

Power BI / Tableau Basic

You'll view and interact with pre-built dashboards to understand cash balances and forecast variances. You might even start to tweak some existing reports, but you won't be building complex new ones from scratch just yet.

SAP S/4HANA (ERP) Basic

You'll understand how Treasury data (cash, debt) flows into our corporate ERP and be able to pull basic reports from it. You won't be configuring it, but you'll know where to find the data you need.

5What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
Payment Authorisation No independent authorisation. All payments require approval from a manager. Authorise routine payments up to £10,000 within established templates. Any payment above this or outside standard process requires manager approval. Authorise payments up to £100,000. Approve new payment templates and beneficiary setups. Consult Director on high-value, non-routine payments.
Bank Account Management No authority to open/close accounts or change mandates. Inform manager of any bank communication. Manage routine bank account documentation updates (e.g., KYC renewals). Consult manager on any changes to account structures or mandates. Propose and implement minor bank account structure changes. Lead discussions with banks on service improvements. Authority to sign off on routine bank documentation.
Cash Flow Forecasting Methodology Follow existing forecast templates and data gathering processes. Propose minor improvements to forecast templates or data collection methods. Consult manager on any significant changes. Design and implement new cash flow forecast models. Recommend changes to underlying assumptions and scenario analysis parameters.
Issue Resolution (Operational) Escalate all operational issues (e.g., failed payments, bank discrepancies) to supervisor. Independently troubleshoot and resolve routine payment failures or bank statement discrepancies with banking partners. Escalate complex or high-impact issues. Lead the resolution of complex, cross-bank or cross-departmental operational issues. Define escalation protocols for the team.

6How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Daily Cash Position Accuracy
Variance between your reported opening cash balance and the actual bank statement opening balance.
Target · <0.1% variance daily

If the reported opening balance for a £10M account is £10,000,000 and the actual is £9,999,900, that's a £100 variance, which is 0.001% – well within target.

Payment Processing Error Rate
Number of payments processed with incorrect details (e.g., wrong amount, beneficiary, currency) or missed bank cut-off times.
Target · 99.9% of payments processed without error

Out of 1,000 payments processed in a month, you should have no more than one error or missed cut-off. Frankly, we aim for zero.

Cash Flow Forecast Variance (13-week)
The difference between your rolling 13-week cash flow forecast and the actual cash inflows/outflows for that period.
Target · <10% variance (forecast vs. actual) by week 4

If you forecast £5M in outflows for a given week and actuals come in at £5.4M, that's an 8% variance, which is acceptable. If it's £6M, we need to understand why.

Report Timeliness
Ensuring daily and weekly Treasury reports (like the cash position or debt summary) are distributed to relevant stakeholders by their agreed deadlines.
Target · 95% of reports delivered on time

The daily cash position needs to hit people's inboxes by 9:30 AM every morning. If it's late once or twice a month, we'll understand, but consistent delays are a problem.

Proactive Issue Resolution
How well you anticipate and resolve potential cash management issues before they become major problems, rather than just reacting.
  • You'll be the one flagging a potential short-term liquidity gap to your manager before it's a crisis, or noticing a recurring payment error pattern and suggesting a fix. We'd see this in your weekly check-ins and incident logs.
Stakeholder Communication Clarity
Your ability to explain complex Treasury concepts or issues (like a payment delay or FX impact) clearly and concisely to non-Treasury colleagues.
  • Feedback from Accounts Payable or FP&A that your explanations are easy to understand. You're not just sending data
  • you're providing context. People actually 'get' what you're talking about.
Process Adherence & Improvement
Your commitment to following established Treasury controls and procedures, whilst also identifying small improvements to make things more efficient or accurate.
  • Your audit trails are always spotless. You're not cutting corners. Plus, you've suggested a tweak to the cash forecast template that saves 15 minutes a day, or you've documented a workaround for a tricky bank portal issue.
Banking Relationship Support
How effectively you manage day-to-day interactions with our banking partners, ensuring queries are resolved promptly and professionally.
  • Bank relationship managers give positive feedback. You're not just forwarding emails
  • you're following up, escalating when needed, and building a good rapport. You're seen as a reliable point of contact.

7Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Impact and Responsibility

You'll feel a real sense of purpose knowing your daily work directly affects the company's ability to operate and grow. You're the one making sure the cash is there.

Successfully funding a large, unexpected payment request from the CEO at short notice, knowing the business couldn't have done it without your quick action.

Problem Solving and Analysis

You'll get to dig into data, figure out why discrepancies exist, and troubleshoot complex banking issues. Every day brings a new puzzle to solve.

Unravelling a tricky bank reconciliation issue that involves multiple currencies and accounts, finally getting everything to balance after a few hours of detective work.

Structure and Order

If you like processes, checklists, and ensuring everything is neat and tidy, Treasury offers plenty of that. There's a real satisfaction in maintaining financial integrity.

Building a new, more efficient spreadsheet for the daily cash position that automates several manual steps, making the process smoother and less error-prone.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Forecast Chase': Spending 30% of your week chasing business units for their cash flow forecast inputs, only to receive them late and often with questionable accuracy.
  • The 'Black Box' Bank System: When a payment fails for a cryptic reason like 'Error Code 51' and the bank's front-line support has no idea what it means, forcing a frantic escalation.
  • Manual Reconciliation Hell: Manually ticking and tying transactions from five different bank PDF statements because the automated feed from one specific bank in a small country has been 'temporarily' broken for six months.
  • Being the 'Department of No': Having to be the one who tells an excited project team they can't use a flashy new FinTech payment provider because it doesn't meet our security and compliance standards.
What this role does not give you
  • A purely strategic, high-level role from day one – you'll be in the weeds of daily operations.
  • An environment where every single project you work on makes it to production or gets fully implemented.
  • A role with minimal administrative or repetitive tasks – some of that is just part of the job.
  • Guaranteed 9-5 hours every single day, especially around bank cut-off times or month-end.

8Who you work with

This role directly supports the liquidity of the entire organisation. Get it right, and the business runs smoothly, pays its bills, and can invest in growth. Get it wrong, and you're looking at payment delays, missed opportunities, and potentially significant financial penalties. Your daily work underpins every single financial transaction the company makes, ensuring we're solvent and efficient.

Inside the business
  • Senior Treasury Analyst (your direct manager)
  • Accounts Payable team (for payment runs)
  • Accounts Receivable team (for incoming cash forecasts)
  • Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team (for overall budget alignment)
  • Legal team (for bank account documentation)
Outside the business
  • Our main banking partners (J.P. Morgan, Citi, HSBC)
  • External auditors (during year-end checks)
  • Payment service providers

9What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • At least 2-3 years of proven experience in a Treasury, Cash Management, or Finance Operations role, ideally within a corporate environment.
  • Demonstrable advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data manipulation (Power Query is a bonus).
  • A solid understanding of daily cash management processes and bank reconciliation principles.
  • Experience with at least one Treasury Management System (like Kyriba, FIS Quantum, or SAP Treasury) or major banking portal (e.g., J.P. Morgan Access, CitiDirect BE).
  • A strong track record of meticulous attention to detail and accuracy in financial data handling.

10What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Basic Python for Data Automation

Honestly, some of the manual data pulling and cleaning we do in Excel can be automated. Python, especially with libraries like pandas, is becoming the go-to for this. It'll save you hours and make your work more scalable and less prone to human error.

Pandas DataFrames · API Integration (Basic) · Scripting for Automation · Version Control (Git)

  • This week: Sign up for a free online Python for Finance course (Codecademy, Coursera, DataCamp have good ones).
  • This month: Focus on learning pandas. Try to load one of your daily Excel files into a pandas DataFrame.
  • Month 2: Write a simple script to perform a basic data cleaning task you currently do manually in Excel.
  • Month 3: Explore how to connect Python to one of our data sources, even if it's just pulling a CSV from a shared drive.

Quick win: Use Python to automate a simple, repetitive task you do weekly, like combining several small CSVs into one master file. It'll feel like magic.

11Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Attending industry webinars or virtual conferences on cash management and treasury technology.
  • Participating in internal finance training sessions on topics like financial modelling or regulatory updates.
  • Taking online courses to brush up on specific skills, like advanced Excel or an introduction to Python for finance.
  • Networking with other Treasury professionals, perhaps through the ACT or similar bodies.

12The rising capability

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Data Storytelling & Visualisation

It's no longer enough just to present numbers. People want to understand the story behind the data, especially when it comes to cash flow. Leadership needs quick, clear insights, not just raw figures. Plus, with more data sources, visualising it properly becomes essential.

  • Dashboard Design Principles
  • Narrative Building
  • Audience-Centric Communication
  • Interactive Reporting

13What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Cash Flow Forecasting & Modelling
  • Liquidity & Cash Management
  • FX & Interest Rate Risk Management (Basic)
  • Bank Relationship Management (Operational)
  • Treasury Controls & Compliance

14The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Finance Graduate Scheme

    2-3 years in a rotational programme, with a Treasury rotation.

    Skills to master

    • Understanding core financial processes, basic accounting principles, data entry accuracy, and exposure to various finance functions.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully completed a Treasury rotation, demonstrating a keen interest and aptitude.
    • Strong academic performance in finance-related modules.
    • Positive feedback from managers during rotations on attention to detail and analytical skills.
  2. 2

    Accounts Assistant / Junior Accountant

    2-4 years gaining experience in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or General Ledger.

    Skills to master

    • Reconciliation, payment processing, understanding of the general ledger, basic financial reporting, and working with ERP systems.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Demonstrated strong reconciliation skills and an eye for detail in previous roles.
    • Expressed a clear interest in moving into cash management and understanding broader financial flows.
    • Proven ability to manage deadlines and handle sensitive financial information accurately.
  3. 3

    Back Office Operations (Banking)

    3-5 years in a bank's operations team, dealing with payments, reconciliations, or client services.

    Skills to master

    • Understanding of banking systems, payment types, swift messages, and resolving payment-related queries.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Deep understanding of payment processing and bank statement formats (MT940s, BAI2).
    • Experience troubleshooting payment issues with clients or internal teams.
    • Desire to move to the 'client side' (corporate treasury) and apply banking knowledge internally.

15Where this role leads

The long view: This work can lead to a Treasury Manager role, managing a team and treasury programmes, or further into specialist or leadership positions within treasury.

16Pay and demand

Pay & demand

Typical pay £50,330 a year Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 (provisional), under the Open Government Licence v3.0

The figure is the median for full-time employees in the ONS occupation this job title codes to (Finance and investment analysts and advisers), from the April 2025 survey, about six months old when published, as ASHE always is. It is that occupation's middle, not this role's. Half earn more.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Treasury Analyst is actually changing.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Operating a multi-currency till, worked against Treasury Analyst.

Operating a multi-currency till Level 2

Applied to your work in Treasury Analyst

This unit aims to enable learners to operate a multi-currency till effectively and securely. Learners will be able to set up, operate, and shut down the till correctly, applying appropriate security measures and complying with relevant codes, laws, and regulatory requirements.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Treasury Analyst
  • Cash Flow Forecasting & Modelling
  • Liquidity & Cash Management
  • FX & Interest Rate Risk Management (Basic)
  • Bank Relationship Management (Operational)
  • Treasury Controls & Compliance
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

17The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Treasury Analyst is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Senior Treasury Analyst

    3-5 years in this Treasury Analyst role.

    Level 3 (Senior)

    • FX & Interest Rate Hedging (Execution) Executing basic FX forward contracts and understanding interest rate swaps.
    • Short-Term Investment Management Managing short-term cash surpluses in money market funds.
    • Bank Relationship Management (Strategic) Leading discussions with banks on service improvements and fee negotiations.
    • Treasury System Optimisation Identifying and implementing improvements within the TMS.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, parts of Treasury can be a bit repetitive, can't they? But what if you could ditch some of that grunt work and focus on the really interesting stuff? We're talking about using AI to make your daily life easier, faster, and frankly, a lot more exciting.

We're not just talking about theory here. Our team is actively exploring and implementing AI tools to take the sting out of mundane tasks. Imagine an AI assistant handling the first pass of your daily cash position or drafting those routine emails. That's the future we're building, and you'll be right at the forefront of it.

Automated Cash Positioning

Imagine AI tools logging into bank portals for you, pulling statement data (those MT940s/BAIs), and even categorising transactions. It'll give you a first draft of the daily cash position report, flagging any unusual items for your expert eye. Think of the time saved!

Predictive Cash Forecasting

Our AI models analyse historical cash flows, spot seasonality, and even look at external economic data to give you a much more accurate baseline cash flow forecast. It'll highlight which business unit forecasts look a bit off, so you know exactly where to focus your attention instead of sifting through everything.

Smart Market Intelligence

Ever wish you had a personal assistant to keep tabs on the markets? An AI assistant can scan news, central bank announcements, and market commentary, then give you a daily, summarised briefing on key FX and interest rate movements that actually matter to our company's specific currency exposures. No more wading through endless news feeds.

AI-Assisted Communications

Routine emails to banking partners confirming a transaction? Internal reminders to business units for forecast submissions? Initial drafts of covenant compliance certificates? AI tools can handle the first draft of these, freeing you up to focus on the content and relationship, not the typing.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Treasury Analyst?

Common routes in include Finance Graduate Scheme (2-3 years in a rotational programme, with a Treasury rotation.), Accounts Assistant / Junior Accountant (2-4 years gaining experience in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or General Ledger.) and Back Office Operations (Banking) (3-5 years in a bank's operations team, dealing with payments, reconciliations, or client services.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Treasury Analyst progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Treasury Analyst (3-5 years in this Treasury Analyst role.), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for a Treasury Analyst?

Increasingly, Data Storytelling & Visualisation. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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18Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

 More jobs in finance

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.
If you leave this industry

The skills built here, careful financial management, risk awareness, cash flow forecasting and working with complex systems, carry across finance. They can lead to roles in financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, banking operations or fintech.

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