Treasury Analyst - Payments & Liquidity Insights

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 53,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee seeks a Treasury Specialist to serve as a technical resource and back up for treasury activities. You will support money movement, gather and analyze data, and contribute to liquidity reporting.

The role requires 1–2 years in treasury or banking, strong analytical skills, and proficiency with Excel and treasury systems. The position offers hybrid/onsite work and growth opportunities within a major financial services firm.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business administration.
• 1-2 years of experience in corporate treasury, banking, or investment operations.
• Knowledge of banking and cash management principals, payment channels, treasury tools and banking regulations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical skills, and detailed oriented.
• Team player motivated to provide great customer service to internal and external customers.
• Strong time management, decision making, interpersonal, research, and communication skills.
• Self-initiative on issue handling, trouble shooting, and problem solving to resolve time sensitive matter.
• Demonstrated flexibility to adjust to changing business needs by effectively managing and prioritizing concurrent assignments.
• Ability to deliver informative, well-organized documentation.

Responsibilities

• Ensures accurate and timely execution of wire transfer and ACH transactions.
• Resolve business area inquiries and issues with payments.
• Solve general system issues.
• Responds to and investigates bank reconciliation open items.
• Develops and maintains understanding of business transactions and related accounting.
• Maintains working knowledge of the financial reconciliation system.
• Investigates and resolves complex client payment issues.
• Identifies potential enhancements to improve accuracy and efficiency and leads or assists in implementing changes.
• Provides guidance to other division staff and operating areas performing Treasury activities.
• Demonstrates understanding of bank fees and collaborates on setting bank balances.
• Understands data flows between systems and synthesizes a comprehensive view.
• Gathers, cleans, and analyzes data using Excel and data visualization tools to generate insights.
• Assists in the preparation of various Treasury dashboards.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Customer Centricity

Customer Service Mindset

Customer Support

Process Improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business administration

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Data Visualization Software

Job description

Northwestern Mutual in Milwaukee seeks a Treasury Specialist to serve as a technical resource and back up for treasury activities. You will support money movement, gather and analyze data, and contribute to liquidity reporting.

The role requires 1–2 years in treasury or banking, strong analytical skills, and proficiency with Excel and treasury systems. The position offers hybrid/onsite work and growth opportunities within a major financial services firm.