Treasury Specialist

About the Job:

The Treasury Specialist performs as a technical resource, subject matter expert and back up for assigned Treasury activities. Supports the money movement and Treasury activities throughout the organization. Assists in the collection of financial data needed for the creation of valuable and insightful liquidity and leverage reporting. Works cross functionally to understand money movement and improve operations.

What You'll Do:

• Ensures accurate and timely execution of wire transfer and ACH transactions. Can resolve business area inquiries ad issues with payments. Can solve general system issues.
• Responds to and investigates bank reconciliation open items. Develops and maintains an understanding of the business transactions and related accounting performed by administration and cash/client fund systems (e.g., cash disbursement system). Maintains working knowledge of the financial reconciliation system.
• Investigates and resolves complex client payment issues.
• Identifies potential enhancements to improve accuracy and efficiency and leads or assists in efforts to implement changes. Provides guidance to other division staff and the operating areas performing Treasury, control, and servicing activities.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of bank fees used to support company activity. Provides insights to bank fees and collaborates with the cash manager on setting bank balances and facilitate data needs for Treasurer to maintain bank fee expenses.
• Understand and documents how data flows between systems and be able to bring it together in a comprehensive view.
• Responsible for gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data using standard tools like Excel and data visualization software, to generate insights and support informed decision-making within the organization, while learning advanced analytical techniques under guidance from senior team members
• Assists in the preparation of various Treasury dashboards.

What Experience You'll Bring:

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business administration.
• 1-2 years of experience in corporate treasury, banking, or investment operations.
• Knowledge of banking and cash management principals, payment channels, treasury tools and banking regulations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical skills, and detailed oriented.
• Team player motivated to provide great customer service to internal and external customers.
• Strong time management, decision making, interpersonal, research, and communication skills.
• Self-initiative on issue handling, trouble shooting, and problem solving to resolve time sensitive matter.
• Demonstrated flexibility to adjust to changing business needs by effectively managing and prioritizing concurrent assignments.
• Ability to deliver informative, well-organized documentation.

Skills:

• Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
• Customer Service Mindset: Anticipates customer needs and applies understanding of customer needs or perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes as the basis for decision making. Leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions.
• Customer Support: Captures customer information for inquiry and analysis in an organized, clear, and consistent manner; leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions and communicates with the customer and the field. Uses customer intelligence to solve problems, demonstrate patience and understanding, ensure customer satisfaction by knowing the customer and audience and resolve customer complaints efficiently.
• Process Improvement: Assesses the current processes and impact to analyze, design, and manage potential improvement areas for more efficient, effective workflow.

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