Treasury Director - North America

Veolia; Trevose (PA); Sur place; USD 136 000 - 169 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

401(k) Plan with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Résumé du poste

Veolia seeks a Treasury Director to lead North American treasury, liquidity, financing, and risk activities across the U.S. and Canada, partnering with the Regional CFO and Veolia Water Tech Corporate Treasury.

The role safeguards liquidity, enhances cash flow forecasting, optimizes funding, and manages FX, interest, and commodity risks. The incumbent will oversee banking relationships, payments, cash pooling, and treasury systems governance, driving continuous improvement and aligned with group

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• MBA, Master’s degree, or professional certifications such as CTP, CFA, CPA, or ACT is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in corporate treasury, finance, or banking, ideally within a large multinational organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading treasury professionals across multiple countries or entities.
• Deep expertise in liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, working capital, cash pooling, intercompany funding, and financing.
• Proven ability to identify and manage FX, interest rate, commodity, liquidity, and counterparty risks with hedging strategies.
• Strong knowledge of corporate financing, debt/equity structures, capital allocation, credit facilities, and guarantees.
• Experience managing global banking relationships, payment operations, and cash pooling.
• Advanced proficiency with Treasury Management Systems, ERP, and treasury automation.
• Strong governance, controls, tax, transfer pricing, accounting, and cross-border transaction knowledge.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.

Responsabilités

• Manages and supervises treasury and financing in their region.
• Monitors cash generation/consumption and provides analysis to Regional CFO.
• Ensures liquidity adequacy and applies Group financing/treasury rules.
• Controls cash consumption via reporting and debt/credit limits.
• Develops cash forecasts and improves forecast accuracy.
• Assesses quarterly free cash flow and net debt with FP&A and Vector.
• Maximizes and automates cash repatriation to group entities.
• Identifies and mitigates FX, rates, commodity, and counterparty risks.
• Provides Level 1 support for the Treasury Management System.
• Oversees payment management and fraud prevention.
• Verifies dividend policy application and debt/equity structure.
• Interacts with regional banks and manages bank accounts and pooling.
• Prepares regional financing committee and follows up actions.
• Understands tax impacts of financing decisions.
• Manages bank guarantees and corporate guarantees.

Connaissances

Treasury management

Liquidity management

Financial modeling

Data analytics

Leadership

Communication

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business

MBA or professional certifications (CTP/CFA/CPA/ACT)

Outils

Treasury Management Systems

ERP platforms

Banking tools

Description du poste

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

The Treasury Director will lead all treasury, liquidity, financing, and financial risk activities across the North American region (US and Canada), serving as a strategic partner to the Regional CFO and Veolia Water Tech Corporate Treasury. This role will safeguard the organization’s financial health by ensuring adequate liquidity, strengthening cash flow forecasting, optimizing funding and cash repatriation, and actively managing foreign exchange, interest rate, commodity, and counterparty risks. The Director will also oversee banking relationships, payment security, treasury systems, capital structure, and the governance of bank and parent company guarantees, ensuring compliance with Veolia Group policies and local requirements. Through disciplined oversight, forward-looking analysis, and close collaboration with finance, legal, commercial, and operational teams, this leader will improve cash generation, reduce financial exposure, and support sustainable growth across the region.

Job Duties

• Manages and supervises all aspects related to treasury and financing in their region.
• Understands, anticipates, and monitors the cash generation/consumption of the entities and provides analysis to the Regional CFO.
• Ensures a sufficient level of liquidity for their entities, helps them anticipate and manage their financing needs, while ensuring the proper application of the Group's financing and treasury rules, distinguishing between capital expenditures, working capital requirements, growth financing, and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Documents financing requests and forwards them to the Water Tech Corporate Treasury. Ensures that documentation (cash agreements, loan agreements, etc.) is up to date.
• Controls the level of cash consumption of the entities through reporting and management of the entities' current account limits.
• Develops cash forecasts, challenges their entities, and informs/explains them to the Water Tech Corporate Treasury. Then compare actual cash flow with the forecasts and use the results to improve the quality and reliability of future forecasts. Understands the cash generation levers within their scope.
• Based on cash positions and forecasts, assess the landing of quarterly free cash flow (using the “Simplified Free Cash Flow” and “Total Cash Generation” ratios) and of net debt, in close collaboration with the FP&A teams. Following each Vector closing, perform a systematic reconciliation between the Treasury’s actual cash generation and the free cash flow from Vector (the Group consolidation system), with a view to continuous improvement
• Maximizes and automates cash repatriation to the group's centralizing entities for any non-cash pooled accounts.
• Identifies financial risks (exposure to foreign exchange risk, interest rate volatility, commodities, counterparty risk) and defines and implements solutions to address them, in coordination with the Veolia Group trading room; Analyzes the foreign exchange result in Vector and manages the portfolio of outstanding hedges.
• Provides Level 1 support for the use and management of the TMS (Treasury Management System) within their region: helps users, answers requests, indicates modifications to be made to the treasury system, and enters the necessary transactions.
• Intervenes in payment management: Monitoring and management of payment incidents. Approval of payment batches before sending to Next. Ensures the security of payment methods and implements the necessary measures to prevent any fraud.
• Verifies the proper application of the dividend policy and the appropriate debt/equity structure of the entities' balance sheets.
• Interacts regularly with the banks operating in their geographical area. Manages bank accounts in liaison with the Water Tech Corporate Treasury, whether the accounts are pooled or non-pooled. Actively participates in refocusing the banking relationship towards the Veolia Group's partner banks. Ensures that the cash pool operates smoothly in their region and makes adjustments as needed. Ensures that delegations of banking authority are up to date with the current organization.
• Is responsible for preparing a regional financing committee and follows up on the actions decided during the committee.
• Takes an interest in and understands the tax impacts of any financing/ treasury situations/ decisions.
• Manages the guarantees (bank guarantees, surety bonds and Corporate guarantees) on his perimeter, with the help of expert teams of Corporate

Qualifications

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field;
• MBA, Master’s degree, or professional certifications such as CTP, CFA, CPA, or ACT is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in corporate treasury, finance, or banking, ideally within a large, complex, multinational organization.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing treasury professionals and providing functional direction across multiple countries or business entities.
• Deep expertise in liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, working capital, cash pooling, intercompany funding, dividend repatriation, and short- and long-term financing.
• Proven ability to identify and manage foreign exchange, interest rate, commodity, liquidity, and counterparty risks, including the execution of appropriate hedging strategies.
• Strong knowledge of corporate financing, debt and equity structures, capital allocation, credit facilities, M&A financing, and the management of bank and parent company guarantees.
• Experience managing global banking relationships, bank accounts, signatory authorities, payment operations, fraud-prevention controls, and cash-pooling arrangements.
• Advanced proficiency with Treasury Management Systems, ERP platforms, banking tools, financial modeling, data analytics, and treasury automation or transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of treasury governance, internal controls, audit requirements, tax, transfer pricing, accounting, and legal considerations related to cross-border transactions.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively with senior executives and cross-functional teams in a highly matrixed, international environment.

Additional Information

At Veolia, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We’re an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Because our people are our greatest assets, we also offer competitive compensation and benefits that include:

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Starting Day 1!
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan - 3% default contribution plus matching!
• Flexible Spending & Health Saving Accounts
• AD&D Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement

The estimated salary range for this role is $136K - 169K plus a 20% annual bonus.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

****Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity****

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As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.