Senior Treasury Systems Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Treasury Systems Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization committed to strengthening financial operations, liquidity management, treasury controls, and technology-enabled finance capabilities across diverse markets.

Our Finance and Technology teams collaborate across Treasury, Accounting, FP&A, Banking, Tax, Risk, Procurement, IT, Cybersecurity, and external financial institutions to deliver reliable treasury systems, accurate financial data, efficient processes, and strong operational controls.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Treasury Systems Specialist to lead treasury technology solutions, system configuration, integration, data management, process optimization, testing, automation, and continuous improvement across treasury operations.

The ideal candidate will bridge Treasury and Technology, translating treasury requirements into scalable system solutions that support cash management, liquidity forecasting, payments, bank connectivity, foreign exchange, debt management, investment activities, reconciliation, reporting, controls, and treasury risk management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead treasury systems strategy, functional analysis, solution design, implementation, and continuous improvement.
• Gather, document, validate, and prioritize treasury technology requirements.
• Translate treasury business processes into scalable system solutions and workflows.
• Analyze current treasury processes and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and control improvement.
• Support treasury management systems, ERP treasury modules, banking platforms, payment systems, and related financial technologies.
• Configure treasury-system workflows, business rules, data structures, approval processes, and reporting requirements.
• Support cash-management, liquidity, payment, bank-account, foreign-exchange, debt, investment, and reconciliation processes within treasury systems.
• Define functional requirements for cash positioning and daily liquidity reporting.
• Support cash forecasting and liquidity-planning functionality.
• Configure or support treasury workflows for bank transactions, payments, receipts, transfers, and approvals.
• Support bank-account management, signatory controls, account opening, closure, and bank-master-data processes.
• Coordinate bank connectivity requirements, including host-to-host, SWIFT, APIs, file-based interfaces, and other connectivity methods.
• Define functional requirements for payment formats, transaction processing, bank statements, confirmations, and acknowledgements.
• Support electronic bank-statement integration and automated transaction matching.
• Improve bank reconciliation processes through system automation and exception management.
• Support foreign-exchange transaction capture, valuation, settlement, and reporting.
• Support treasury requirements for interest-rate exposure, debt facilities, borrowing, repayments, and financing arrangements.
• Support investment and surplus-cash management workflows where applicable.
• Define system requirements for counterparty management, limits, approvals, and treasury risk monitoring.
• Support treasury accounting integration with general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and financial-reporting systems.
• Ensure treasury transactions flow accurately between treasury systems and the ERP.
• Define integration requirements between treasury platforms, ERP systems, banks, payment providers, and other financial applications.
• Work closely with integration architects, developers, ERP specialists, cybersecurity teams, and banking partners.
• Develop functional specifications for APIs, interfaces, file exchanges, workflows, reports, and system enhancements.
• Conduct fit-gap analysis between treasury requirements and available system capabilities.
• Recommend standard system functionality before proposing custom development.
• Support treasury-system implementation, rollout, upgrade, migration, and transformation projects.
• Participate in treasury technology selection, solution evaluation, demonstrations, proof-of-concept exercises, and vendor assessments.
• Develop business cases and investment recommendations for treasury technology initiatives.
• Coordinate treasury-system testing, including unit, integration, regression, parallel, and user-acceptance testing.
• Develop test scenarios, test scripts, expected results, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices.
• Validate treasury calculations, transaction flows, interfaces, accounting entries, and reporting outputs during testing.
• Support UAT and coordinate resolution of functional defects.
• Analyze production incidents and identify root causes of treasury-system issues.
• Coordinate incident resolution with internal technology teams, vendors, banks, and treasury users.
• Manage system enhancements, change requests, defects, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Assess the business impact, risk, dependencies, and effort associated with treasury-system changes.
• Support release management, deployment planning, cutover, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Support treasury-data migration, cleansing, mapping, validation, reconciliation, and business sign-off.
• Ensure treasury master data remains accurate, complete, consistent, and appropriately controlled.
• Establish data-quality rules for bank accounts, currencies, counterparties, instruments, transaction types, and other treasury data.
• Support treasury reporting, dashboards, cash visibility, liquidity analytics, and management information.
• Develop functional requirements for treasury KPIs, exposure reporting, cash forecasting, payment monitoring, and liquidity reporting.
• Support automation of treasury processes using workflows, straight-through processing, APIs, robotic process automation, and other technologies.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual spreadsheets and offline treasury processes.
• Establish system controls covering approvals, segregation of duties, payment limits, user access, transaction validation, and audit trails.
• Work with Cybersecurity and IAM teams to ensure appropriate treasury-system access and privileged-access controls.
• Support audit, compliance, and control reviews of treasury systems and related processes.
• Maintain system documentation, process maps, configuration records, interface specifications, test evidence, and operating procedures.
• Develop user guides, training materials, and knowledge articles for treasury-system users.
• Deliver system training and support adoption of new treasury technology capabilities.
• Coordinate with external treasury consultants, technology vendors, banks, payment providers, and managed-service partners.
• Define vendor deliverables, service levels, support expectations, acceptance criteria, and performance measures.
• Monitor vendor performance and ensure system issues are resolved within agreed service levels.
• Maintain treasury technology roadmaps aligned with Finance and enterprise-technology strategies.
• Monitor emerging treasury technologies, real-time payments, API banking, AI, analytics, automation, and financial-data capabilities.
• Provide management with regular reporting on treasury-system performance, projects, incidents, risks, controls, automation, and improvement opportunities.

Key Performance Indicators

• Treasury system availability
• Treasury-system incident volume
• Mean time to resolve system incidents
• First-time incident resolution rate
• Recurring issue reduction
• Treasury change success rate
• Change-related incident rate
• System enhancement delivery rate
• Requirements completion and quality
• Requirements-to-solution traceability
• Functional configuration accuracy
• UAT completion rate
• UAT defect resolution rate
• Test-case execution and pass rate
• Business-user acceptance rate
• Release and deployment success rate
• Treasury-system integration success rate
• Bank-connectivity availability
• Bank-statement processing success rate
• Payment processing success rate
• Straight-through processing rate
• Automated reconciliation rate
• Treasury transaction matching accuracy
• Cash-position reporting accuracy
• Liquidity forecast data accuracy
• Treasury reporting accuracy
• Treasury master-data quality
• Bank-account data accuracy
• Counterparty-data quality
• Foreign-exchange transaction accuracy
• Treasury-to-GL reconciliation accuracy
• Treasury data-migration accuracy
• Manual spreadsheet-process reduction
• Treasury automation rate
• Workflow adoption
• User adoption
• User training completion
• User satisfaction
• Access-control compliance
• Segregation-of-duties compliance
• Audit finding closure
• Control deficiency reduction
• Vendor SLA compliance
• Vendor deliverable quality
• Treasury-system project milestone performance
• Project budget adherence
• Technology investment ROI
• Process cycle-time improvement
• Treasury operating-cost efficiency
• Continuous-improvement delivery
• Benefits realization

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in treasury systems, treasury technology, financial systems, treasury operations, ERP treasury modules, banking technology, or finance transformation, preferably within a complex multinational, financial, commercial, industrial, or shared-services environment.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong understanding of treasury operations and treasury technology.
• Proven experience implementing, configuring, supporting, or optimizing treasury management systems.
• Strong knowledge of cash management, liquidity, payments, bank connectivity, foreign exchange, debt, investments, and treasury accounting.
• Experience with Treasury Management Systems such as Kyriba, FIS, ION, Quantum, SAP Treasury, Oracle Treasury, or comparable platforms.
• Strong understanding of ERP integration with treasury systems and financial applications.
• Experience with bank connectivity, electronic bank statements, payment files, APIs, SWIFT, host-to-host connections, or comparable technologies.
• Strong knowledge of treasury workflows, transaction processing, approvals, reconciliations, and system controls.