Senior Treasury Liquidity Forecasting Specialist

Job Title: Senior Treasury Liquidity Forecasting Specialist

Location: UAE (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are seeking an experienced Senior Treasury Liquidity Forecasting Specialist to manage liquidity forecasting, cash flow analysis, funding projections, and treasury risk monitoring. This role is responsible for ensuring that the organization maintains sufficient liquidity to meet its financial obligations while optimizing cash utilization, funding efficiency, and short-term investment decisions.

The successful candidate will collaborate with treasury, finance, risk management, investment operations, and business teams to develop reliable liquidity forecasts, analyze cash flow trends, assess funding requirements, and strengthen liquidity planning and reporting processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Liquidity Forecasting: Develop, maintain, and enhance short-term, medium-term, and long-term liquidity forecasts based on expected cash inflows, outflows, funding requirements, and business activities.
• Cash Flow Analysis: Analyze historical cash flows, payment patterns, settlement obligations, operating expenses, investment transactions, and financing activities to improve forecast accuracy.
• Treasury Position Monitoring: Monitor daily cash positions, bank balances, available liquidity, committed facilities, and anticipated funding requirements across relevant accounts and entities.
• Forecast Model Development: Build and maintain forecasting models incorporating business assumptions, market conditions, historical trends, contractual obligations, and expected transaction activity.
• Liquidity Gap Analysis: Identify timing mismatches between cash inflows and outflows, assess liquidity gaps, and recommend appropriate funding or cash management actions.
• Scenario and Stress Testing: Conduct scenario analysis and liquidity stress tests to evaluate the impact of market volatility, funding disruptions, unexpected withdrawals, settlement delays, and adverse business conditions.
• Funding Planning: Assess funding requirements, refinancing schedules, debt maturities, borrowing facilities, and alternative funding options to support liquidity resilience.
• Cash Flow Variance Analysis: Compare forecasted and actual cash flows, investigate material variances, identify recurring forecasting weaknesses, and implement corrective measures.
• Liquidity Risk Monitoring: Track relevant liquidity indicators, funding concentration, cash buffer adequacy, and emerging liquidity pressures in accordance with internal risk policies.
• Working Capital Oversight: Analyze receivables, payables, settlement cycles, collateral requirements, and other working capital drivers that influence liquidity availability.
• Treasury Reporting: Prepare daily, weekly, monthly, and ad hoc liquidity reports, cash flow projections, funding summaries, and management dashboards.
• Banking and Counterparty Coordination: Work with banking partners, treasury service providers, and internal stakeholders to validate account balances, payment schedules, funding availability, and cash movement expectations.
• Liquidity Policy Compliance: Ensure forecasting processes and treasury activities follow internal policies, delegated authorities, reporting requirements, and applicable regulatory expectations.
• Data Integrity and Controls: Validate source data, assumptions, calculation methodologies, and reporting outputs to ensure consistency, accuracy, and traceability.
• Process Automation: Identify opportunities to automate cash flow data collection, forecast updates, reconciliation processes, and management reporting.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Coordinate with finance, accounting, risk management, operations, and business units to obtain reliable forecast inputs and resolve data inconsistencies.
• Technical Leadership: Provide guidance to junior team members, review forecasting models, and promote consistent treasury planning practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications such as CFA, ACCA, CPA, CTP (Certified Treasury Professional), or equivalent credentials are advantageous.
• Significant experience in treasury management, liquidity forecasting, cash management, financial planning, or treasury risk analysis.
• Strong understanding of cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, funding structures, working capital, and treasury operations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain forecasting models using historical data, business assumptions, contractual cash flows, and scenario-based analysis.
• Experience analyzing cash positions, funding gaps, debt maturities, credit facilities, collateral requirements, and liquidity buffers.
• Knowledge of liquidity risk management principles, treasury policies, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Strong financial modeling and quantitative analysis skills, including sensitivity analysis and forecast variance assessment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with treasury management systems, enterprise resource planning platforms, financial databases, or reporting tools.
• Familiarity with SQL, Power BI, Python, or other data analytics and automation tools is an advantage.
• Experience preparing liquidity reports and presenting financial insights to senior management.
• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to identify emerging liquidity risks.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple reporting cycles and competing deadlines in a remote working environment.
• High standards of integrity, confidentiality, accountability, and professional judgment.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Performance will be evaluated using measurable indicators, including:

• Forecast Accuracy: Variance between projected and actual cash flows, measured across agreed forecasting horizons and materiality thresholds.
• Liquidity Coverage: Effectiveness in identifying funding needs and maintaining liquidity buffers in line with internal policies.
• Forecast Timeliness: Delivery of daily, weekly, monthly, and ad hoc forecasts within established deadlines.
• Variance Resolution: Timeliness and effectiveness of investigating material forecast deviations and implementing corrective actions.
• Liquidity Risk Identification: Early identification and escalation of potential cash shortfalls, funding concentration, and liquidity gaps.
• Scenario Analysis Quality: Accuracy, relevance, and completeness of liquidity stress tests and scenario-based assessments.
• Data Quality: Completeness, consistency, and reliability of data used in liquidity models and treasury reports.
• Reporting Accuracy: Accuracy and clarity of liquidity dashboards, management reports, and funding projections.
• Process Efficiency: Reduction in manual processing, reporting delays, and recurring forecasting errors.
• Control Compliance: Adherence to treasury policies, approval workflows, documentation requirements, and reporting standards.
• Stakeholder Support: Timeliness and quality of liquidity analysis provided to treasury leadership, finance teams, and business stakeholders.
• Continuous Improvement: Successful implementation of forecasting model enhancements, automation initiatives, and improved treasury controls.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and technical expertise.
• A fully remote working arrangement, subject to applicable employment and work authorization requirements.
• Opportunities to work on complex treasury, cash management, and liquidity planning activities.
• Professional development in liquidity risk management, treasury analytics, and financial forecasting.
• A collaborative environment that values analytical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities to enhance forecasting models, reporting processes, and treasury risk controls.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV highlighting their experience in treasury liquidity forecasting, cash flow modeling, funding analysis, and liquidity risk management.

Applicants are encouraged to include examples of forecasting models developed, forecast accuracy improvements achieved, or liquidity management processes enhanced.

• Email Subject Line: Application – Senior Treasury Liquidity Forecasting Specialist (UAE Remote)