Treasury Specialist

Mukuru; Remote; ZAR 300 000 - 450 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm seeks a Treasury Specialist to modernise and scale treasury operations. This role involves enhancing automation, improving cash flow forecasts, and supporting decision-making across finance operations. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in finance or accounting, and 2-4 years of relevant experience, preferably in fintech environments. Strong Excel skills and knowledge of financial instruments are essential. Join this dynamic team to drive continuous improvement in treasury functions.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years’ experience in treasury or finance operations.
• Experience with finance automation and systems implementation.
• Exposure to fintech, payments or remittance environments.

Responsibilities

• Improve and automate treasury processes.
• Support daily cash positioning and allocation.
• Maintain treasury process documentation and controls.

Skills

Strong Excel capability

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Financial instruments knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field

Professional qualifications (ACT, CA(SA), CFA)

Tools

ERP

Treasury Management Systems (TMS)

Power Query

Job description

This is not a traditional treasury role.

As a Treasury Specialist, you will play a key role in modernising and scaling treasury operations within a fast-moving, globally connected financial services business. You’ll work at the intersection of finance, data, and technology, supporting automation, improving liquidity visibility, and strengthening funding and control frameworks.

This role is ideal for a proactive, analytical professional who enjoys improving how things work and wants to grow into greater ownership and responsibility within treasury.

Your Mission

To support and enhance Mukuru’s treasury operations by improving automation, strengthening liquidity and funding processes, and enabling smarter, faster, and more resilient financial decision‑making.

What You’ll Be Doing

Treasury Automation & Systems

• Identify opportunities to automate and streamline treasury processes.
• Collaborate with developers, finance systems and transformation teams to design, test and implement scalable treasury solutions.
• Take growing ownership of treasury technology tools, reports and dashboards, including Treasury Management Systems (TMS).

Cash & Liquidity Management

• Support daily cash positioning and intercompany liquidity allocation across multiple currencies and corridors.
• Build, maintain and enhance automated cash flow forecasts, incorporating business volumes, settlement cycles and prefunding requirements.
• Contribute analysis to improve cash concentration, pooling and repatriation structures.

Funding & Capital Support

• Support administration and monitoring of funding and capital facilities, including utilisation tracking and settlements.
• Develop automated tools for funding forecasts, utilisation and cost analysis.
• Assist with modelling, documentation and analysis for new funding arrangements and strategic liquidity initiatives.

Process, Controls & Risk

• Own and maintain assigned treasury process documentation and controls.
• Work closely with Finance Transformation and Risk teams to ensure compliance with policies and regulatory requirements.
• Identify inefficiencies and support the implementation of agreed improvements.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with Financial Control, FP&A, Commercial Finance, Compliance, Legal and Payments teams.
• Engage with banks, payment partners and external advisors on operational matters.
• Act as a dependable support to the Treasury Manager, with increasing responsibility over time.

What You Bring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field.
• Professional qualifications (ACT, CA(SA), CFA) are advantageous.

Experience

• 2–4 years’ experience in treasury téh finance operations or related roles.
• Exposure to fintech, payments or remittance environments is beneficial.
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• Experience with finance automation, systems implementation or process improvement projects.

Skills & Knowledge

• Solid understanding of liquidity, funding structures and financial instruments.
• Strong Excel capability (lookups, pivots, modelling).
• Exposure to ERP, TMS, Power Query or reporting automation tools is advantageous.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills.

Personal Attributes

• Detail‑oriented, reliable and well organised.
• Comfortable managing multiple workstreams across entities and currencies.
• Confident working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.

I am sure you are reading this job description and meet majority of the criteria BUT you may also still not be 100% comfortable in applying. We believe that there is a place for everyone under the Mukuru sun and we wantpayer you to contribute to our diverse tapestry of talent. So come on, take a leap of faith, and send your application if you meet majority of our requirements. Remember to include a snippet of how you will bring value and help us build a future of success that will help us determine where and how you may best be suited” Maybe you are just the future Mukurian we need!!
Should you be appointed in a remote/work‑from‑home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work‑like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers.
If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLANS