Specialist Cash Mgmt

Role Purpose

We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Treasury Specialist to support accurate and complete Treasury processes in line with company policies. This role is crucial in ensuring to process payments and monitoring Bank transactions. The Treasury Specialist will also contribute to audit support and reporting to improve process efficiency and visibility.

Key Accountabilities

•    Review daily cash flow reports based on inputs from various departments, develop accurate cash flow forecasts, and share them with the Group Treasury UK team to facilitate funding arrangements as necessary.
•    Approve daily manual payments based on FTR (fund transfer request) from kyriba and Banking platform, according to the IHG DOA (Delegation of Authority) policy.
•    Monitoring payment status daily and coordinate with Bank if any rejections
•    Manage shared mailbox and resolve queries from other teams.
•    Manage Direct Debit setup, cancellation and arrange DOA approval on active Direct debits annually.
•    Manage Bank account opening and closing whenever required, update bank mandate accordingly to the IHG Treasury policy.
•    Coordinating with Bank and ensure timely update KYC for IHG entities.
•    Support team lead to arrange Sox data timely to avoid failure of internal controls.
•    Team handling in absence to team lead.
•    Coordinating with other teams e.g. AP, AR, Tax team etc whenever required
•    Support new team members to arrange Banking access and other process related access.

Functional Complexities and Duties –

• Responsible for coordinating & providing the entire infrastructure related requirements for the team including bank accesses.
• To give value to the organization in terms of better utilization of manpower/better quality of output.
• Takes logical decision quickly, change priority to meet expectation & always accommodative to new responsibility. Ready to take proactive action when required.
• Assessing training needs for team & organizing the same.                

Key Skills & Experiences

Education & Experience -
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education -and work-related experience.
Master’s degree in finance with relevant field of work experience (Preferred).
2–4 years of experience in Cash Management & Treasury.

Technical Skills and Knowledge -  

•    Accounting Knowledge: Good Knowledge of Journal entries, golden rules of accounting, cash flow statements, Accounting Principles      and concepts and the ability to apply them to the company's accounting practices.
•    System Knowledge: Good knowledge of Microsoft office.
•    Treasury process knowledge is an advantage.
•    Knowledge of PeopleSoft and Kyriba (preferred)

Other Skills -
Communication - Possess good communication skills.
Flexibility - Flexible to work in multiple shifts, Ability to work in cross functional teams.