Full-Time

Junior Cash & Treasury Operations Analyst

Posted on 1/21/2025

OakNorth Bank

OakNorth Bank

201-500 employees

Provides tailored lending solutions for businesses

Entry, Junior

Manchester, UK

This position is onsite in Manchester.

Category
Treasury
Finance & Banking
Required Skills
Excel/Numbers/Sheets
Requirements
  • payment and/or treasury operations experience in a financial services / fintech company or similar environment
  • Strong analytical and numerical skills
  • Strong in Microsoft excel including V-lookups, Pivot Tables
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written as well as verbal)
  • Resourceful problem solver with a focus on delivery (ability to multitask is also crucial)
  • Ability to collaborate with teams across multiple locations (Manchester, London, India)
  • High attention to detail ability to execute in a structured manner
  • Ability to review exceptions and escalate in line with procedures
  • Capability to complete bank reconciliations for bank accounts
  • Very self-motivated, with a positive mind-set, having strong time-management skills, and possessing strong attention to detail and accuracy
Responsibilities
  • Working in a growing UK Cash & Treasury Operations team
  • Processing payments (GBP and currency) to clients, internally and third parties, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and fully compliant work practices; using a variety of payments methods including, CHAPS, BACS and various other bank payment systems
  • Performing 4-eye checks, monitoring and completing a control function to validate and ensure data accuracy and execution for Cash Management activities
  • Investigating and helping to resolve numerous, varied and sometimes complex queries relating to account reconciliations that relate to the processes of the team
  • Resolving internal and external deposit and loan customer queries regarding cash in a timely and professional manner; by independently driving resolution through liaising with banks on client and internal bank accounts to ensure consistent, accurate and smooth transaction processing
  • Maintaining the TFSME with BoE by completing weekly balance updates, pool submissions, and drawdowns
  • Transacting GILT purchases, sales or maturities within the custodian settlement account
  • Monitoring the Collateral Management and preventing any Margin Calls
  • Completing control processes of payment approvals and ensuring process, procedure and policy adherence
  • Working flexibly within a time-bound environment, prioritising and balancing tasks and activities to ensure externally driven timescales are adhered to e.g., daily cut offs for different banking procedures and Treasury Back Office demands
  • Performing AML checks and processes in line with policies and procedures
  • Owning the updating and systematic review of Standard Operating Procedures; including any ad hoc updates and changes to processes, and provide team training sessions upon process changes
  • Collating data for the Annual Regulatory Reporting to HMRC for ISA, BBSI and FATCA
  • Supporting both the FSCS SCV Submission for internal testing and genuine external submission required every 3 years
  • Contributing to the Annual external Audit of all processes by providing case studies, examples and rationale on actions completed on transactions
  • Identifying process improvements across Cash and Treasury Operations and documenting requirements

OakNorth Bank offers tailored lending solutions to businesses and savers in the UK, focusing on fast and flexible financing options. The bank specializes in senior debt finance, allowing for quick loan approvals that support management buyouts and business expansion, particularly in property development and hospitality. Unlike traditional banks, OakNorth works closely with private equity firms to customize its financial products, ensuring they meet specific client needs. Additionally, OakNorth provides savings accounts that help fund local businesses, aiming to create a positive impact on communities.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Grant

Total Funding

$15.8M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2015

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Increased demand for fast financing aligns with OakNorth's offerings.
  • Rising trend of management buyouts provides more opportunities for OakNorth.
  • Growing private equity activity in the Midlands expands OakNorth's lending services.

What critics are saying

  • Competition from digital-only banks like Monzo and Starling Bank.
  • Rising interest rates could affect loan affordability for clients.
  • UK regulatory changes may impose additional compliance costs on OakNorth.

What makes OakNorth Bank unique

  • OakNorth offers fast, flexible finance options unlike traditional banks.
  • Specializes in senior debt finance, beneficial for management buyouts.
  • Focuses on tailored lending solutions for property developers and hospitality businesses.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

Company Equity

Commuter Benefits

Company News

FF News
Feb 10th, 2025
Oaknorth Backs Joint Venture Between O’Shea And Galliard, With £22.8M Loan To Fund Holiday Lodges At Saltmoore, The New Coastal Luxury Wellness Retreat On The North Yorkshire Coast

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has provided a £22.8m loan to support a joint venture between two existing OakNorth customers, O’Shea and Galliard.Founded in 1966, O’Shea Group has grown into one of the largest privately-owned construction and property development companies in London and the South East. Galliard Homes founded in 1992 and led by Executive Chairman and CEO, Stephen Conway, is a leading authority in construction and the development of large-scale mixed-use, residential, hotel and commercial projects. Together, their JV projects have delivered over 13,500 houses across the South East, including 475 apartments at Wickside, Hackney Wick and a further 450 apartments within Baltimore Tower, Canary Wharf.The £22.8m loan from OakNorth will be used to fund the next stage in converting the historic 19th century, Raithwaite Sandsend Estate. Located between the heather-clad North York Moors National Park, and unspoilt Sandsend beach on the outskirts historic seaside town of Whitby, Yorkshire, the 85-acre site will see the development of 179 luxury villas, lodges and cottages (the Saltmoore Collection). This next phase follows the reimagining and reopening of the estate’s two hotels, Saltmoore House and The Beach House, in November 2024, totalling 78 rooms and suites. The heart of the hotel is the historic hall known as Saltmoore House, where the hotel’s extensive wellness offering state of the art gym and spa, treatment journeys by Wildsmith, cryotherapy chamber, Himalayan salt sauna, and wellness café

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Feb 5th, 2025
Faes & Co secures OakNorth funding

Faes & Co, led by Christian Faes, has secured funding from OakNorth to expand its US real estate bridging finance business, F2 Finance, which operates in 13 states. The funding will help address the US housing crisis by supporting property entrepreneurs in rehabilitating aging homes. OakNorth, known for its expertise in real estate lending, is excited to support Faes & Co's growth in this sector.

Insider Media
Feb 5th, 2025
The Harkalm Group lands £2.1m loan to acquire nurseries across the UK

Commercial property investor and developer The Harkalm Group has secured a £2.1m loan from OakNorth to acquire eight nurseries across the UK.

FF News
Jan 23rd, 2025
Oaknorth Celebrates Five-Year Anniversary Of Having Dedicated Lending Team In The Midlands

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, today celebrates the five-year anniversary of its team in Birmingham who have been supporting businesses across the Midlands.OakNorth has completed over £675m of loans to businesses across the region, with some of its notable deals including:A bespoke loan to MPS Care Group , a leading provider of residential nursing and care homes for adults, to refinance existing facilities and support future growth (loan completed in December 2024);A transaction with Beaufort Wealth Management , the Warwickshire-based IFA firm, to support an MBO (loan completed in November 2024);A bespoke debt facility to OMNI Developments , to support the development of a major new PBSA site in Nottingham (loan completed in August 2024);A structured debt facility to Lovett Care , the award-winning care home provider, to support the next phase of its growth plans (loan completed in March 2023);A £2.1m loan to East-Midlands-based, family run housebuilder, Rose & Co Developments , for a new residential scheme in Ranskill, Nottinghamshire (loan completed in July 2021;A £44.4M loan to the science and tech sector’s leading property provider, Bruntwood SciTech , to support the development of life sciences infrastructure at Birmingham Health Innovation Campus and specialist office space for the digital tech sector at Innovation Birmingham (loan completed in May 2021).OakNorth has continued to bolster its Birmingham-based lending team, hiring Ian Fairclough as a Director of Debt Finance in September 2024 and Safa Arif as an Associate of Debt Finance in January 2025. They joined Dale Cowdell, Mike Tierney and Chris Wall, helping to strengthen OakNorth’s ability to provide trading facilities, alongside its existing real estate offering, including acquisition and buyout finance, as well as roll outs and recaps for growth businesses across the Midlands.Ben Barbanel, Head of Debt Finance at OakNorth, said: “We continue to see a huge opportunity in the Midlands from businesses keen to pursue their growth ambitions, and because incumbent banks and alternative lenders are still retrenching from lending, this has only been compounded. Given our recent hires designed to help strengthen our corporate lending offering, it has also been encouraging to see a noticeable uptick in private equity activity in the region, driven by rising business sentiment that is creating more deal activity. Moving forward, we look forward to building on the impressive work done by the team over the past five years, and will continue to invest in building our team, capabilities, and reach across the Midlands.”

FF News
Jan 20th, 2025
Oaknorth Provides £50M Of New Funding To Leading Entrepreneurial Private Equity Real Estate Investor, Paloma Capital

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has provided a £50m of new funding to returning customer and leading entrepreneurial private equity real estate investor, Paloma Capital.Founded by Joe Froud and Jack Pitman, Paloma Capital has raised over £520m of wholly discretionary capital in three value-add Funds since 2015, mainly from institutional investors across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. The firm’s investment philosophy is founded on three key pillars; an acute focus on mispricing, an entrepreneurial approach to capex-intensive asset management; and a preference for the majority of its return to come from income.The £50m of new funding from OakNorth, split across two separate transactions, will be deployed within the firm’s Paloma Real Estate III, following a successful final close of the Fund at which they raised £201m of wholly discretionary equity. Following its launch in November 2022, the Fund has had an opportunistic strategy, investing across sectors and regions, focussing primarily on income-producing, multi-let urban industrial and logistics schemes. It’s asset types include urban logistics, trade counters, open storage and self-storage. OakNorth provided £45m to the fund back in September 2023 to support its growth.Jack Pitman, Founding Partner of Paloma Capital, commented: “At Paloma, we continue to pride ourselves on our hands-on approach to asset management and our focus on multi-let assets which provide us with the greatest opportunity to create additional value through carefully thought-out and well-executed business plans. Given the experience we had with OakNorth last year when we secured a £45m debt facility following the launch of our third fund, we felt they were the obvious choice

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