Treasury Lead: Project Finance & Growth Ops

[axr] Recruitment & Search; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

axr Recruitment & Search is seeking an experienced treasury leader to oversee a hands-on, high-growth treasury function in Sydney. The role focuses on operating facilities, forecasting, hedging, and covenant reporting within a scale-up environment.

You will manage cross-functional cash management, reporting to lenders and investors, and drive process improvements across treasury systems and controls. Strong project financing background and FX/derivatives experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years across corporate treasury, project finance operations or structured finance.
• Experience with project or asset-level financing, not just group facilities.
• Ability to update and reconcile covenant models with reporting.
• Working knowledge of FX and derivatives, ISDA confirmations and hedge accounting support.

Responsibilities

• Manage existing facilities day to day: terms, rate sets, interest accruals, fee amortisation, monthly covenant certificates and lender reporting.
• Run the cash waterfall: facility payments, transfers to liquidity accounts, reconciliations and minimum balances.
• Own weekly funding and cash forecasting across project-level and corporate needs, including FX considerations.
• Manage hedging operations: confirmations, settlements, ISDA docs, valuations and hedge accounting support.
• Maintain/update the covenant model and produce monthly lender/investor reporting.
• Oversee bank guarantees, counterparty credit reporting, KYC and treasury controls.
• Lead treasury management system implementation, automated feeds and straight-through processing.

Skills

Treasury management

Cash forecasting

FX hedging

ISDA knowledge

ERP/treasury systems

KYC controls

Tools

ERP systems

Treasury platforms

Banking software

Job description

axr Recruitment & Search is seeking an experienced treasury leader to oversee a hands-on, high-growth treasury function in Sydney. The role focuses on operating facilities, forecasting, hedging, and covenant reporting within a scale-up environment.

You will manage cross-functional cash management, reporting to lenders and investors, and drive process improvements across treasury systems and controls. Strong project financing background and FX/derivatives experience are essential.