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Job Summary
The Treasury Assistant supports domestic and international Treasury operations, including banking administration, cash positioning, funding calculations, payments, reporting, and documentation.
The role coordinates with Treasury, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accounting, Tax, and banking partners to complete activities accurately and on time. It also supports cash visibility, banking integrations, and process improvements. Transactions remain subject to assigned authority and independent approval and release.
Duties and Responsibilities
Banking & Treasury Operations
- Support daily banking activities and coordinate account openings, closings, and banking-service changes.
- Maintain account records, banking agreements, contacts, authorized users, signers, and access documentation; support authorized system-access administration.
- Resolve routine inquiries with banking partners and retrieve complete monthly statements for Accounting’s reconciliation and close activities.
Cash Management, Funding & Reporting
- Monitor cash positions and bank activity, distinguishing ledger from available balances; escalate unexplained overdrafts, unavailable funds, and funding shortfalls.
- Prepare the PNC Funding Summary using current bank data, Workday settlement runs, and approved requirements. Reconcile inputs and submit funding recommendations for Treasury review.
- Prepare Citi transaction and balance reports; investigate discrepancies and initiate approved funding transfers with required Workday records.
- Support liquidity reporting, short-term cash forecasts, and actual-versus-forecast analysis; maintain accurate reporting schedules.
Payments & Settlement Operations
- Prepare and initiate approved AP, contractor, payroll, tax, intercompany, and miscellaneous payments; coordinate payroll funding and banking deadlines.
- Validate entity, beneficiary, bank details, amount, currency, and value date against approved support.
- Monitor Workday-to-bank files, file counts, and control totals; investigate failures and track payments through final completion.
- Coordinate corrections within approval requirements, confirm originals have not processed before retries, and retain payment references and required Workday records.
International Payroll & Tax-Payment Support
- Prepare or upload approved Hong Kong, Singapore, and Argentina payroll files; validate totals, employee counts, currencies, dates, and templates against Payroll support.
- Process approved South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina tax payments using country-specific banking workflows.
- Coordinate instructions, local requirements, deadlines, and corrections with Payroll and Tax; monitor authorization and completion and escalate deadline risks.
- Payroll and Tax retain responsibility for determining and approving underlying obligations; Treasury supports banking execution.
Account Verification, Cash Receipts & Exception Management
- Perform bank-account verification and communicate results and limitations. Support supplier banking reviews in Workday within assigned authority and segregation-of-duties requirements.
- Follow approved independent verification procedures for new or changed beneficiary instructions.
- Investigate returned ACH and wires, check-status requests, and missing or unidentified receipts; match AR receipt information to bank activity and coordinate resolution.
- Support authorized fund-rejection or return requests; escalate suspicious checks or transactions and track exceptions through disposition with owners and follow-up dates.
Controls, Documentation & Audit Support
- Maintain complete banking, funding, transaction, approval, and confirmation records under Treasury policies and retention standards; support audit requests.
- Preserve maker-checker separation and required independent approval and release; escalate requests to bypass controls.
- Support periodic reviews of banking access, signers, and approval authorities; protect confidential banking, supplier, and employee information.
- Maintain procedures, checklists, and backup instructions.
Process Improvement & Systems
- Support banking technology, automation, and Workday integration testing and implementation.
- Standardize templates and workflows; review bank fees and recurring payment issues to improve efficiency and accuracy without weakening controls.
- Provide backup coverage and support cross-training for assigned Treasury activities
Required Qualifications
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
- One to three years of experience in treasury, banking, accounting, AP, payroll finance, or related financial operations preferred.
- Ability to prioritize time-sensitive transactions, communicate across Finance functions, and handle confidential information appropriately.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of cash management, payment processing, reconciliation, and payment authorization and verification controls.
- Strong Microsoft Office and Excel skills, including lookups, SUMIFS, pivot tables, and transaction-level reconciliations.
- ERP, treasury-management, or online-banking experience preferred; Workday, PNC PINACLE, or CitiDirect experience.
- International payments, multi-currency transactions, or payroll-funding experience.
- Excellent attention to detail, communication skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Working Conditions
While performing the duties of this role, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to handle or feel, and communicate effectively. The position is primarily sedentary and involves extended periods of working at a computer. The employee may occasionally need to stand, walk, or reach with hands and arms. Lifting or moving items up to 10 pounds may be required occasionally. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This role may operate in a professional office environment or a remote/home office setting, depending on business needs and company policy. The position routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and other technology tools necessary for virtual collaboration. Employees are expected to maintain a safe and productive workspace, whether onsite or remote.
Salary Range: $55,000- $65,000
Candidate must be able to submit verification of their legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.
About BRG
BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.
At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.
Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.
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BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.