Regional Treasury Manager

The Regional Treasury Manager runs treasury across markets rather than inside one. Singapore is the natural base for this seat: the regional treasury centre model, the bank presence and the tax and regulatory environment mean a large share of Asia-Pacific treasury mandates are managed from here.

What changes is not seniority but variation. Cash that is trapped in one market, convertible in another and subject to documentation requirements in a third cannot be managed with a single playbook. Restricted currencies, withholding tax on intercompany interest, local borrowing rules and repatriation approvals turn liquidity management into a country-by-country design problem.

The banking side scales with it. Regional facility structures, cross-border pooling, in-house bank arrangements and multi-market implementation projects sit here, usually alongside a matrix relationship into local finance teams who do not report to you but whose forecasts you depend on.

Where this sits: the fifth rung of the Treasury pathway, between Treasury Manager and Head of Treasury. The common exit is Head of Finance in the Accounting pathway.

• Own liquidity and funding across the regional entity set, including trapped cash, repatriation routes and local borrowing.
• Design and operate regional cash structures: cross-border pooling, in-house bank arrangements and intercompany funding frameworks.
• Manage the regional FX programme across convertible and restricted currencies, including deliverable and non-deliverable instruments.
• Lead regional bank relationships and facility structures, and run tenders or rationalisation across multiple markets.
• Interpret local regulatory, exchange control and withholding tax constraints, and build treasury processes that comply with each.
• Consolidate and challenge country cash forecasts submitted by local finance teams outside your direct reporting line.
• Deliver regional treasury projects — TMS rollouts, payment factory implementations, entity onboarding after M&A.
• Report regional liquidity, risk and funding cost to group treasury and regional finance leadership.

• A degree in accountancy, banking and finance or economics, with a completed professional qualification.
• Ten to fourteen years of treasury experience, including several years covering more than one market.
• Practical experience of restricted currency markets in Asia — China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam or Malaysia is the common set.
• Track record delivering a multi-country treasury project such as pooling, a payment factory or a TMS rollout.
• Ability to operate through matrix relationships where local finance teams do not report to you.
• ACT AMCT, CA (Singapore) or CFA, with regional treasury centre experience valued above all of them.

• List your markets. Name the countries you have actually managed cash in; regional titles without restricted-currency exposure are quickly exposed.
• Bring a trapped cash problem. How you released or worked around it is the single most diagnostic story in this interview.
• Show a multi-country project. Pooling, payment factory or TMS, with the sequencing and the local obstacles named.
• Demonstrate matrix influence. Explain how you improved forecast quality from teams who do not report to you.
• Ask where policy is set. Regional roles vary from execution arms of a global treasury to genuine regional mandates.