Treasury Executive

The Treasury Executive owns what the analyst supports. The daily position is no longer a task to complete but a number you are accountable for, and the rolling forecast becomes a forecast with your name on it — including the variance explanation when it misses.

Scope widens in three directions. Bank relationships move from token administration to the operational relationship: account opening, KYC packs, fee negotiation inputs and service escalation. Hedging moves from capturing exposure to preparing and executing approved trades, with the confirmations and accounting entries that follow. Reporting moves from schedules to a treasury pack that a controller or CFO actually reads.

This is the rung where treasury stops being a processing role and starts being a judgement one. Executives who handle it well are usually running a small set of entities or a specialism — cash, FX operations or bank administration — within eighteen months.

Where this sits: the second rung of the Treasury pathway, between Treasury Analyst and Assistant Treasury Manager. The common lateral move is Senior Finance Executive in the Accounting pathway.

• Own the daily cash position and the rolling thirteen-week forecast for assigned entities, including variance commentary.
• Execute intercompany loans, sweeps and funding movements within delegated authority and document them properly.
• Prepare hedge requests, execute approved FX trades with dealing banks, and process confirmations and settlements.
• Manage day-to-day bank relationships: account opening and closure, KYC documentation, mandate changes and service escalation.
• Produce the monthly treasury pack — liquidity, facility utilisation, FX position and bank fee analysis.
• Reconcile treasury activity to the ledger and prepare interest, revaluation and hedge accounting inputs for finance.
• Monitor covenant metrics and facility headroom, and flag breaches early with supporting numbers.
• Maintain treasury procedures and the treasury management system so controls survive audit and staff turnover.

• A degree in accountancy, banking and finance, economics or business.
• Two to four years of treasury, cash management or bank operations experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of a cash forecast, with the ability to explain misses rather than only report them.
• Practical understanding of FX instruments — spot, forward and swap — and the settlement cycle behind them.
• ACT CertT, CA (Singapore) or ACCA in progress or completed.
• Working knowledge of a treasury management system, or the discipline to run controlled workbooks in its absence.

• Bring a forecast miss. Explain the cause, the fix and how the forecast behaved afterwards.
• Show the full hedge lifecycle. Exposure, approval, execution, confirmation, settlement and accounting — not just the trade.
• Be precise on authority limits. Knowing what you could execute alone shows control maturity.
• Quantify the bank landscape. Number of banks, accounts, currencies and entities tells the interviewer your real scale.
• Ask what the treasury pack drives. If nobody acts on it, the role is administration, not treasury.