Royston Da Costa

Royston has over 36 years experience working in treasury. He joined Wolseley in April 2002, which was renamed Ferguson in 2017, and was responsible for managing the group’s daily debt and cash requirements.

In 2010, he was given the responsibility for driving the automation of Treasury’s processes at Ferguson, which led to the implementation of their current treasury management system in 2015, a cloud-based solution by Coupa.

 Royston was promoted to assistant treasurer in November 2016, and was made responsible for the middle office, as well as continuing to drive forward the group’s strategy on treasury technology. In November 2019, he was given the additional responsibility for the Front Office.

In 2021, he became responsible for the UK intercompany loans structure as well as continuing my responsibility for the Group’s Treasury Technology. As the main Treasury operations have moved to the US, Royston also provides strategic support to the US team on ad-hoc projects.

He has had a number of articles published by Treasury journals including an article on “Cyber Fraud and the impact on Treasury”.

Royston is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, as well as courses run by international treasury organisations.

He is a member of the Advisory Board for Treasury Leaders Summit (TLS), and a member of Barclays Bank’s Corporate Advisory Committee.