Treasury Assistant

Berkeley Research Group; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Berkeley Research Group is seeking a Treasury Assistant to support domestic and international treasury operations, including banking administration, cash positioning, funding calculations, payments, reporting, and documentation.

The role collaborates with Treasury, Payroll, AP, AR, Accounting, Tax, and banking partners to ensure timely and accurate processing, visibility of liquidity, and continuous process improvements.

Qualifications

• Required: Associate's or bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• Ability to prioritize time-sensitive transactions, communicate across Finance functions, and handle confidential information appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Banking & Treasury Operations: support daily banking activities and account changes; maintain records and access documentation.
• Cash Management, Funding & Reporting: monitor cash positions, prepare funding summaries, reconcile data, and support liquidity analysis.
• Payments & Settlement Operations: prepare approved payments and coordinate payroll funding, verify details, and track payments.
• International Payroll & Tax-Payment Support: prepare payroll files for multiple regions and Tax payments with country-specific workflows.
• Account Verification, Cash Receipts & Exception Management: verify bank accounts, resolve discrepancies, and manage receipt data.
• Controls, Documentation & Audit Support: maintain records, ensure separation of duties, and support audits.

Skills

Time management

Cross-functional communication

Confidential information handling

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration

Job description

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Job Summary

The Treasury Assistant supports domestic and international Treasury operations, including banking administration, cash positioning, funding calculations, payments, reporting, and documentation. The role coordinates with Treasury, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Accounting, Tax, and banking partners to complete activities accurately and on time. It also supports cash visibility, banking integrations, and process improvements. Transactions remain subject to assigned authority and independent approval and release.

Duties and Responsibilities

Banking & Treasury Operations

Support daily banking activities and coordinate account openings, closings, and banking-service changes. Maintain account records, banking agreements, contacts, authorized users, signers, and access documentation; support authorized system-access administration. Resolve routine inquiries with banking partners and retrieve complete monthly statements for Accounting's reconciliation and close activities.

Cash Management, Funding & Reporting

Monitor cash positions and bank activity, distinguishing ledger from available balances; ***??****. Prepare the PNC Funding Summary using current bank data, Workday settlement runs, and approved requirements. Reconcile inputs and submit funding recommendations for Treasury review. Prepare Citi transaction and balance reports; investigate discrepancies and initiate approved funding transfers with required Workday records. Support liquidity reporting, short-term cash forecasts, and actual-versus-forecast analysis; maintain accurate reporting schedules.

Payments & Settlement Operations

Prepare and initiate approved AP, contractor, payroll, tax, intercompany, and miscellaneous payments; coordinate payroll funding and banking deadlines. Validate entity, beneficiary, bank details, amount, currency, and value date against approved support. Monitor Workday-to-bank files, file counts, and control totals; investigate failures and track payments through final completion. Coordinate corrections within approval requirements, confirm originals have not processed before retries, and retain payment references and required Workday records.

International Payroll & Tax-Payment Support

Prepare or upload approved Hong Kong, Singapore, and Argentina payroll files; validate totals, employee counts, currencies, dates, and templates against Payroll support. Process approved South Africa, Brazil, and Argentina tax payments using country-specific banking workflows. Coordinate instructions, local requirements, deadlines, and corrections with Payroll and Tax; monitor authorization and completion and escape deadline risks. Payroll and Tax retain responsibility for determining and approving underlying obligations; Treasury supports banking execution.

Account Verification, Cash Receipts & Exception Management

Perform bank-account verification and communicate results and limitations. Support supplier banking reviews in Workday within assigned authority and segregation-of-duties requirements. Follow approved independent verification procedures for new or changed beneficiary instructions. Investigate returned ACH and wires, check-status requests, and missing or unidentified receipts; match AR receipt information to bank activity and coordinate resolution. Support authorized fund-rejection or return requests; escrow suspicious checks or transactions and track exceptions through disposition with owners and follow-up dates.

Controls, Documentation & Audit Support

Maintain complete banking, funding, transaction, approval and confirmation records under Treasury policies and retention standards; support audit requests. Preserve maker-checker separation and required independent approval and release; ***??****. Support periodic reviews of banking access, signers, and approval authorities; protect confidential banking, supplier, and employee information. Maintain procedures, checklists, and backup instructions.

Process Improvement & Systems

Support banking technology, automation, and Workday integration testing and implementation. Standardize templates and workflows; review bank fees and recurring payment issues to improve efficiency and accuracy without weakening controls. Provide backup coverage and support cross-training for assigned Treasury activities

Required Qualifications

• Associate's or bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
• One to three years of experience in treasury, banking, accounting, AP, payroll finance, or related financial operations preferred.
• Ability to prioritize time-sensitive transactions, communicate across Finance functions, and handle confidential information appropriately.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of cash management, payment processing, reconciliation, and payment authorization and verifica