Manager Bank Reconciliation & Treasury Operations
Job Purpose To lead and manage large-scale bank reconciliation and treasury operations activities, ensuring timely and accurate reconciliation of bank balances, cash transactions, and treasury-related General Ledger (GL) accounts. The role will be responsible for driving month-end close activities, strengthening operational controls, managing stakeholder relationships, and leading service delivery excellence across high-volume finance operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end bank reconciliation and treasury operations processes, ensuring timely completion of month-end close activities.
- Manage reconciliation of a high volume of bank accounts, ensuring bank statement balances accurately match ERP/Treasury system balances and underlying transactions.
- Oversee reconciliation of cash clearing and treasury-related GL accounts, ensuring all reconciling items are investigated, resolved, and cleared within defined timelines.
- Ensure robust controls around vendor payments, bank transactions, beneficiary details, IFSC code validations, and payment processing activities.
- Review and monitor unreconciled balances, exceptions, aged items, and control breaches, driving timely resolution through structured action plans.
- Partner closely with Treasury, Accounts Payable, Controllership, Finance, and Banking Partners to resolve operational issues and improve process effectiveness.
- Lead root cause analysis for reconciliation breaks and implement corrective and preventive actions to minimize recurring issues.
- Drive process standardization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and control compliance.
- Support audit requirements,
regulatory compliance, internal controls testing, and governance reporting.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team while ensuring strong performance management, knowledge development, and succession planning.
Functional & Technical Skills
Functional Skills
- Strong expertise in Bank Reconciliations, Cash Management, Treasury Operations, and Record-to-Report (R2R) month-end close processes.
- Deep understanding of cash clearing accounts, treasury GL reconciliations, cash transactions, and financial controls.
- Experience managing high-volume reconciliation environments with large numbers of bank accounts and transactions.
- Strong knowledge of vendor payment controls, banking operations, and cash application processes.
- Ability to identify, investigate, and resolve reconciliation exceptions through structured root cause analysis.
Operational Excellence
- Strong experience in KPI/SLA management, governance reporting, exception management, and operational risk mitigation.
- Proven track record in process optimization, automation, and control enhancement initiatives.
- Experience managing escalations and stakeholder expectations across global teams.
Technical Skills
- Hands-on experience with ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent) and Treasury Management Systems.
- Strong understanding of bank interfaces, cash management modules,
reconciliation tools, and reporting solutions.
- Advanced MS Excel skills including reconciliation analysis, reporting, and data interpretation.
- Exposure to automation and workflow tools will be an added advantage.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Strong people leadership experience with the ability to lead and develop large operational teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience interacting with Treasury teams, Accounts Payable teams, Controllers, and Banking Partners.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
Qualifications & Experience
- Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA) – Mandatory.
- Minimum 9+ years of post-qualification experience in Finance Operations, R2R, Treasury Operations, or Bank Reconciliation functions.
- Significant experience managing month-end bank reconciliation processes and treasury-related balance sheet reconciliations.
- Experience handling large-scale reconciliation environments involving multiple bank accounts, cash transactions, and treasury systems.
- Demonstrated experience in stakeholder management involving Treasury teams, AP teams, banks, and senior finance leadership.
- Proven experience in driving operational controls, process improvements, and service delivery excellence in a Shared Services, GCC, BPO, or Finance Operations setting.
Preferred Experience
- Experience reconciling large bank account portfolios (hundreds to thousands of accounts).
- Exposure to treasury management tools and cash management platforms.
- Experience supporting complex global banking structures, high-volume payment environments, and treasury control frameworks.
📌 Bank Reconciliation & Treasury Operations Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 EY
📍 Bengaluru