The Treasury Analyst performs complex finance functions and specialized cash management, endowment management, and debt management analyses and activities. This position reviews various account documents for appropriateness of activity, accuracy, data entry, and record‐keeping. This position processes transactions and applicable documentation into various systems, ensuring timeliness and accuracy. The Treasury Analyst completes bank‐related activity with a high attention to detail and timeliness. This position manages the data integrity of various cash and debt-related reporting systems and generates reports for the Treasury Director and senior management. This position prepares special studies, reports, analyses, and other tasks as required.

The ideal candidate will have excellent time management and organization skills, be proactive and service-oriented, and require minimal supervision. They will have experience in higher education and be able to identify and mine complex data sets to complete ad-hoc cash, debt, and endowment analyses to develop forecast models.

This position offers a flexible work schedule (minimum of 2 days in the office per week)

Proposed Hiring Range: $75,500 - $94,000

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
  • In lieu of the education requirement, additional related experience, above and beyond what is required, on an equivalent year-for-year basis may be substituted
• 3 years of progressive experience
  • In lieu of the experience requirement, additional related education, above and beyond what is required, may be substituted on an equivalent year-for-year basis.
• Skills Required
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
  • Demonstrated ability to apply financial and analytical skills based on a firm understanding of the organization’s cash flow processes and needs and the ability to develop strategies to improve them
  • Develop and maintain financial models to enable the organization to make sound financial decisions.
  • Complex problem solving to identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
  • Excellent analytical skills to arrange information or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules
  • Active listening to give full attention to what is being said, taking time to understand the points being made, and asking questions as appropriate
  • Advanced professional communication skills, including the ability to prepare materials for and clearly and effectively communicate information to internal and external audiences, client groups, and management
  • Excellent critical thinking skills to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
  • Deductive reasoning to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers to make sense
  • Excellent judgment and decision-making skills to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one

Essential Functions

• Performs highly analytical, complex finance and control functions; multi-dimensional and complex analyses; prepares, reviews, and approves complex transactions and higher dollar-level transactions
• Develops complex budget and forecasting scenarios, long-range planning, and analyses for financial reporting and presentations; designs and runs ad hoc reports
• Recommends and develops solutions that may require policy changes or the development of new processes; maintains broader organizational and university perspective in decision-making
• Manages compliance programs for areas of responsibility
• Leads and executes unit or cross-functional projects and teams, makes decisions regarding projects and programs affecting operational effectiveness, policies, or processes
• Engages in continuous critical analysis of existing systems and processes; makes recommendations to achieve greater efficiencies and improve internal controls
• Defines requirements, develops and implements complex test cases, performs testing, and analyses results
• Represents organization to client groups and external partners; serves as subject matter expert on matters that involve complex technical, financial, or subject matter expertise
• Performs all other duties as assigned

Additional Functions

• Will provide backup support to the Treasury Operations Associate for dual control purposes and coverage

Preferences

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, or related field
• 5 years of progressive experience in cash, debt, and endowment analytics and reporting
• Experience in higher education, nonprofit, or public organization settings with an emphasis on cash, debt, and endowment management and analysis
• Experience related to the banking industry and/or the financial services sector
• Experience related to debt markets/instruments and treasury services

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