Treasury Specialist

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

About the Job

The Treasury Specialist performs as a technical resource, subject matter expert and back up for assigned Treasury activities. Supports the money movement and Treasury activities throughout the organization. Assists in the collection of financial data needed for the creation of valuable and insightful liquidity and leverage reporting. Works cross functionally to understand money movement and improve operations.

What You’ll Do

• Ensures accurate and timely execution of wire transfer and ACH transactions.
• Can resolve business area inquiries and issues with payments.
• Can solve general system issues.
• Responds to and investigates bank reconciliation open items.
• Develops and maintains an understanding of the business transactions and related accounting performed by administration and cash/client fund systems (e.g., cash disbursement system).
• 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 efforts to implement changes.
• Provides guidance to other division staff and the operating areas performing Treasury, control, and servicing activities.
• Demonstrates a deep understanding of bank fees used to support company activity.
• Provides insights to bank fees and collaborates with the cash manager on setting bank balances and facilitates data needs for Treasurer to maintain bank fee expenses.
• Understands and documents how data flows between systems and is able to bring it together in a comprehensive view.
• Responsible for gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data using standard tools like Excel and data visualization software, to generate insights and support informed decision-making within the organization, while learning advanced analytical techniques under guidance from senior team members.
• Assists in the preparation of various Treasury dashboards.

What Experience You’ll Bring

• Requires a 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.

Skills

• Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success.
• Customer Service Mindset: Anticipates customer needs and applies understanding of customer needs or perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes as the basis for decision making.
• Customer Support: Captures customer information for inquiry and analysis in an organized, clear, and consistent manner; leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions and communicates with the customer and the field. Uses customer intelligence to solve problems, demonstrate patience and understanding, ensure customer satisfaction by knowing the customer and audience and resolve customer complaints efficiently.
• Process Improvement: Assesses the current processes and impact to analyze, design, and manage potential improvement areas for more efficient, effective workflow.

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Compensation Range

• Pay Range - Start: $52,720.00
• Pay Range - End: $79,080.00
• Geographic Specific Pay Structure: Structure 110: $58,000.00 USD - $87,000.00 USD
• Structure 115: $60,640.00 USD - $90,960.00 USD

We believe in fairness and transparency. It s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate, the current market, location of the candidate, and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable,

Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives. At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company over 160 years ago. Today, they are just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual. What started in Milwaukee, WI has grown into 7,000+ home office professionals split across 3 campuses: New York City, Franklin and downtown Milwaukee (HQ) - each one bringing with it its own unique talent and culture. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual as we are growing our digital and tech capabilities and are always on the lookout for bright, tech-savvy candidates.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.