Finance Lead - Treasury & Order to Cash

Role Overview

CABI is seeking a highly skilled and forward-thinking Finance Lead – Treasury and Order to Cash (O2C) to oversee its end-to-end treasury operations and Order to Cash (O2C) cycle. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring optimal liquidity management, robust cash forecasting, and effective banking relationships that safeguard the organization’s financial stability. You will also lead the global O2C cycle—including billing, credit management, collections, and cash allocation—driving accuracy, efficiency, and strong internal controls across all processes.

As the leader of a globally dispersed team, you will provide strategic direction, coordinate delivery across regions, and foster a high-performance culture. This role demands a collaborative leader who can balance tactical execution with long-term strategic development of the treasury and O2C functions.

Key Accountabilities

Treasury Management

• Operations & Liquidity: Lead global treasury operations, ensuring effective liquidity management, short- and long-term cashflow forecasting, and optimization of working capital.
• Banking Relationships: Maintain and strengthen banking relationships, ensuring efficient and secure banking operations across all regions.
• Policy & Compliance: Oversee treasury policies, controls, and compliance, ensuring alignment with organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Monitoring: Monitor global cash positions, investment activity, currency exposures, and banking costs, providing recommendations to senior leadership.
• FX Risk: Work closely with the CFO and Finance Director to support the management of foreign exchange (FX) risk by providing timely and accurate cashflow forecasts and money market insights.
• Process Improvement: Drive standardization and automation in treasury operations to increase accuracy and reporting efficiency.
• Portfolio Management: Optimize and rationalize the global portfolio of bank accounts.
• Regional Oversight: Oversee cashbook management for the Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago, and Brazil.

Order to Cash (O2C) Management

• Billing & Collections: Lead the Publishing & Products O2C function, including billing, invoicing, credit control, collections, debtor recovery, and cash allocation.
• Governance: Ensure customer accounts are accurately maintained and underpinned by strong credit risk assessment.
• Policy Enforcement: Develop and enforce O2C policies, SLAs, and internal controls.
• Collaboration: Work with sales operations and commercial leaders to resolve customer account issues and strengthen the customer-to-cash process.
• Reporting: Deliver accurate monthly reporting of debtors, O2C KPIs, ageing analysis, and risk indicators.
• Donor Receivables: Collaborate with Finance Business Partners to manage donor-funded receivables and oversee Bioscience/project invoicing.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Team Development: Lead and develop a global treasury team, providing direction, coaching, and performance management.
• Systems Improvement: Partner with Finance and IT teams to improve treasury and O2C systems, data quality, and reporting tools.
• Change Management: Support initiatives including system upgrades, automation projects, and process standardization across regions.

Requirements and Qualifications

Essential

• Education: A recognized degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional Certification: Advanced professional accounting or treasury qualification (e.g., ACCA, CPA, CIMA) is required.
• Experience: Proven experience in treasury operations, cash management, liquidity planning, and leading end-to-end O2C processes within a global or multi-regional organization.
• Leadership: Proven track record of managing and developing geographically dispersed finance teams.
• Technical Skills: Strong understanding of financial controls, accounting principles, and working capital performance indicators.
• IT Proficiency: High proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and familiarity with ERP systems.
• Communication: Fluent written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience in an international, not-for-profit, development, or donor-funded context.
• Knowledge of multi-currency operations and international banking structures.
• Experience with CRM platforms or O2C automation/data analytics tools.

Personal Characteristics

• Highly organized, proactive, and adaptable.
• Hands-on approach with high standards for quality.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build trust across geographies.
• Integrity and discretion in handling sensitive financial information.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the official CABI recruitment portal. Follow the link provided to the iRecruit platform to submit your application details and documents.