Treasury Director - Cash & Investments

Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University is hiring for the Director, Cash and Investments position in its Treasury Office in Baltimore. This role involves overseeing cash management, investment activities, and developing strategic reporting to enhance financial decision-making within the university. The ideal candidate should possess extensive treasury experience and strong analytical skills, with a proactive and team-oriented approach, contributing to the university's mission of excellence in research and education.

Qualifications

• 10 years of treasury operations or related experience required.
• Management experience required.
• Strong academic and career achievements necessary.

Responsibilities

• Forecasts operating cash and short-term investments.
• Ensures operating liquidity through cash management.
• Creates and designs cash flow and working capital reporting.

Skills

Financial modeling

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Project management

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance

MBA

Tools

Excel

Kyriba

Job description

The Johns Hopkins University, one of the world's premier teaching, research, and patient care institutions, is seeking candidates for the position of Director, Cash and Investments within its Treasury Office. The Director of Cash and Investments will report directly to the Deputy Treasurer. Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876 and is one of the world’s premier teaching and research institutions with more than 30,000 students across nine academic divisions. The university attracts the finest undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, post-doctoral and professional degree students and more federal research and development funding than any other university in the United States.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of achievement at top-tier institutions and have training and work experience in economics and finance. The candidate should possess an excellent understanding of the treasury function and its impact on the organization. Personality fit within a dynamic team is essential. The ideal candidate should be enterprising, outgoing, and enjoy teamwork as well as lively debates.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for forecasting operating cash and short-term investments in conjunction with the General Accounting, Planning & Budget, and university Investment departments. Additionally, the role is responsible for the continuous monitoring of the cash and liquidity position of the university, which includes completing attribution and variance analysis.
• Ensure adequate operating liquidity, which includes daily review of cash management and investment activity; review and monitoring of A/P checks, ACH payments, and wire transfers; leads Kyriba initiatives and subsequent evaluation and integration of treasury software with other internal systems and spreadsheets.
• Responsible for overseeing the analytical framework used to support the decisions to use each of our financing tools to optimize the use of working capital.
• Creates and designs cash flow and working capital reporting - including visualizations for presentation to operating / functional leaders, executive leadership and other committees.
• Establishes and maintains controls to ensure corporate cash management and short-term investment guidelines are followed.
• Provides management and oversight of quarterly reports, including, but not limited to Fair Market Valuation of Investments, Credit Facility Economics, rating agencies, and Letter of Credit Reporting.
• Assists AVP – Deputy Treasurer as needed for special projects, analysis, and other departmental needs.
• Work with AR/AP Managers to create weekly dashboards and reports related to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that affect working capital.

Special Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Proactive with sense of urgency.
• Intellectually curious, relentless lifelong learner.
  
• Team-oriented, accountable, supportive, conscientious.
  
• Self-aware, confident, non-defensive, willing to take risks.
  
• Honest and direct, transparent, ethical, mission driven.
• Apply strong judgment to problem solving with imperfect information through use of both quantitative and qualitative inputs and analyses.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across the finance department.
  
• Energetic, inspiring and impactful communication and presentation skills.
  
• Financial modeling and creative analytical skills implemented in Excel and other tools.
  
• Project management skills with a focus on results.
  
• Strong academic and career achievement are required along with the highest standards of personal and professional ethics and integrity.
  

The Johns Hopkins University, one of the world's premier teaching, research, and patient care institutions, is seeking candidates for the position of Director, Cash and Investments within its Treasury Office. The Director of Cash and Investments will report directly to the Deputy Treasurer. Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876 and is one of the world’s premier teaching and research institutions with more than 30,000 students across nine academic divisions. The university attracts the finest undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, post-doctoral and professional degree students and more federal research and development funding than any other university in the United States.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of achievement at top-tier institutions and have training and work experience in economics and finance. The candidate should possess an excellent understanding of the treasury function and its impact on the organization. Personality fit within a dynamic team is essential. The ideal candidate should be enterprising, outgoing, and enjoy teamwork as well as lively debates.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for forecasting operating cash and short-term investments in conjunction with the General Accounting, Planning & Budget, and university Investment departments. Additionally, the role is responsible for the continuous monitoring of the cash and liquidity position of the university, which includes completing attribution and variance analysis.
• Ensure adequate operating liquidity, which includes daily review of cash management and investment activity; review and monitoring of A/P checks, ACH payments, and wire transfers; leads Kyriba initiatives and subsequent evaluation and integration of treasury software with other internal systems and spreadsheets.
• Responsible for overseeing the analytical framework used to support the decisions to use each of our financing tools to optimize the use of working capital.
• Creates and designs cash flow and working capital reporting - including visualizations for presentation to operating / functional leaders, executive leadership and other committees.
• Establishes and maintains controls to ensure corporate cash management and short-term investment guidelines are followed.
• Provides management and oversight of quarterly reports, including, but not limited to Fair Market Valuation of Investments, Credit Facility Economics, rating agencies, and Letter of Credit Reporting.
• Assists AVP – Deputy Treasurer as needed for special projects, analysis, and other departmental needs.
• Work with AR/AP Managers to create weekly dashboards and reports related to Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that affect working capital.

Special Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Proactive with sense of urgency.
• Intellectually curious, relentless lifelong learner.
  
• Team-oriented, accountable, supportive, conscientious.
  
• Self-aware, confident, non-defensive, willing to take risks.
  
• Honest and direct, transparent, ethical, mission driven.

• Apply strong judgment to problem solving with imperfect information through use of both quantitative and qualitative inputs and analyses.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships across the finance department.
  
• Energetic, inspiring and impactful communication and presentation skills.
  
• Financial modeling and creative analytical skills implemented in Excel and other tools.
  
• Project management skills with a focus on results.
  
• Strong academic and career achievement are required along with the highest standards of personal and professional ethics and integrity.
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or other related field required. MBA preferred.
• 10 years of treasury operations, finance, or related experience required.
• Management experience required.
• This position does not allow for education or experience substitutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, five to ten years work experience in a treasury department with working knowledge of a wide range of asset classes.
• Master’s Degree, CFA, and/or MBA strongly preferred.

Classified Title: Director Treasury Operations
Working Title: Treasury Director - Cash & Investments
Role/Level/Range: ATP/05/PH
Starting Salary Range: $113,170-$155,650-$198,110/Annually (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F, 8:30-5:00
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid
Department name: 10001516-Treasury Operations
Personnel area: University Administration

About the company

The Johns Hopkins University is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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