Director, Treasury

Pact is an international nonprofit that works in nearly 40 countries building solutions for human development that are evidence-based, data-driven and owned by the communities we serve. Founded in 1971, Pact works with partners to build resilience, improve accountability, and strengthen knowledge and skills for sustainable social impact.

Department Treasury - Pact works with partners to build resilience, improve accountability, and strengthen knowledge and skills for sustainable social impact. The Treasury department contributes to this effort by: Directing global cash management, including establishing necessary cash controls; Working with Country Office teams to manage and forecast their cash needs; Managing and forecasting the organization’s cash needs; Developing and maintaining bank relationships and foreign currency strategies

Position Overview

The Director of Treasury directs all activities involving cash management including working closely with country offices to ensure appropriate use of cash, managing organizational cash flow, and maintaining relationships with financial institutions. Training of staff on the appropriate planning for and use of cash is an integral role of this function.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all treasury functions, working closely with the CFO, Controller and others on the finance team to ensure integrity of organizational cash needs.
• Work closely with all country offices to understand their monthly cash needs. This will require
  • close partnerships with the Program Operations team, Program teams and FP&A to understand project budgets and programmatic needs
  • continuous engagement of country office finance and project leads to understand office and project cash needs
  • training of staff to understand and manage cash flow
  • Approve all country office cash disbursements and working capital requirements
  • Work with Controller, FP&A and DC Accounts Payable to understand DC office cash needs, ensuring cash is available for weekly payment cycles.
  • Develop and manage global banking strategy, cultivating relationships with banks and lenders as needed. Implement new banking technologies and services to improve treasury function and simplify organizational operations.
  • Develop and maintain a framework for foreign exchange management, with the goal of minimizing the impact of foreign exchange risks.
  • Develop and maintain organizational cash flow forecasting tools working closely with FP&A team who is responsible for organizational forecasting.
  • Manage US government cash inflows, including draw downs from Pacts Letter of Credit as well as invoicing the USGOV and other donors as necessary.
  • Manage line of credit with banks ensuring these are used effectively and cost efficiently.
  • Develop and maintain all global treasury policies
  • Comply with all company policies and procedures, including completing all compliance training topics by the deadline to satisfy each and receiving the corresponding acknowledgment statement that the training has been completed.
  • All other duties as assigned

    Basic Requirements

    • Master’s degree and 11+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience, including 6 years of management experience. Bachelor's and 13 years of experience.
    • Strong knowledge of treasury operations, bank services and bank technology
    • Experience training and developing skills that staff will need to effectively manage cash flow for their projects
    • Experience working with an international organization, with cash forecasting and with foreign exchange.
    • A demonstrated record of working in a matrix environment and the ability to work across cultures and languages to bring staff towards a common goal of effective cash management
    • Excellent organizational skills, strong verbal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to work well in dynamic and cross-functional team environment
    • Excellent customer service, with the ability to present information, make recommendations and influence positively across various levels of the organization while exercising professionalism and diplomacy to accomplish objectives
    • Mastery with MS Office, in particular excel; demonstrated interest and experience in technology solutions to financial procedures

      Preferred Qualifications

      • Experience with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
      • Experience overseeing and coordinating with international field offices preferred.
      • CPA