Cash Desk Transformation Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and enhancement of cash management, liquidity forecasting, and funding analytics used across portfolios and business lines.
• Own and evolve core cash-related data sets, metrics, and reporting frameworks, ensuring consistency, transparency, and scalability.
• Partner with Portfolio Management, Short-Term Trading, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into analytical solutions, tools, and dashboards.
• Drive automation and straight-through-processing initiatives across cash workflows, including reconciliation, forecasting, and exception management.
• Serve as a key Cash Desk representative on large-scale departmental and firm-wide transformation programs, including data platforms, operating model redesign, and system modernization.
• Collaborate with internal Technology teams and external vendors on solution design, data integration, UAT, and implementation.
• Establish governance, controls, and documentation around cash data, metrics, and analytics to support auditability and operational resilience.
• Provide thought leadership on industry best practices related to cash, liquidity, treasury analytics, and operational data architecture.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, helping elevate the overall analytical and technical capability of the Cash Desk.

Technical & Analytical Focus Areas

• Development of advanced analytics and metrics to measure forecasting accuracy, liquidity usage, funding efficiency, and operational risk.
• Use of programming and query languages (e.g., Python, SQL, VBA) to automate processes, perform deep data analysis, and prototype new capabilities.
• Build, test, and productionize dashboards and reporting solutions for senior management.
• Support system migrations, platform enhancements, and integration of new data sources across cash and treasury ecosystems.
• Quantify the business impact (risk reduction, efficiency gains, cost savings, capital optimization) for technology and transformation initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field; advanced degree preferred.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in asset management, investment banking, treasury, risk, or financial technology roles.
• Strong hands-on technical skills, including advanced Excel and demonstrated experience with SQL and/or Python for data analysis and automation.
• Solid understanding of financial markets, funding mechanics, and the trade lifecycle, particularly within fixed income and derivatives.
• Proven experience designing and working with complex financial data sets across multiple systems.
• Track record of leading or materially contributing to technology-enabled change initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting cash management, liquidity management, collateral management, or treasury functions.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, reporting tools, and cloud-based analytics environments.
• Experience partnering with Technology teams on system builds, data pipelines, and UAT.
• Prior involvement in firm-wide or cross-functional transformation programs.