Treasury Analyst

Position Summary:

The Treasury Analyst, Treasury Operations, is part of Finance at Vanderbilt University and is a key contributor within the treasury function. This position is responsible for providing support for the Treasury Operations daily cash and banking processes, overseeing the university’s compliance to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), and other duties as required. Reporting directly to the Treasury Manager, the Treasury Analyst, Treasury Operations will collaborate with multiple operating units on a routine basis to ensure financial performance is accurately captured while representing the university in full.

The Treasury Analyst position requires higher level conceptual skills, a relentless pursuit of knowledge and an intellectual curiosity without limit. The successful candidate must possess the strongest analytical, data visualization and presentation, conceptual, organizational, and interpersonal skills while exhibiting high emotional intelligence.  

This position will cultivate and foster relationships across the institution to promote consistency in decision making, answer complex strategic questions, and further university strategic priorities.  The ideal candidate will serve as the operational focal point for university leadership to help achieve institutional goals through ongoing customer service, and the role requires professionalism, poise, and an ability to discern, handle sensitive information, and make decisions in the midst of ambiguity.

About the Work Unit:

Vanderbilt University Treasury (“Treasury”) group’s mission is to serve as stewards of the university’s working capital assets and debt, and to provide treasury services and solutions to the university in a professional and client-centered manner, thereby facilitating Vanderbilt’s broader mission of worldwide leadership in scholarship and research.  In concert with this mission, the Treasury group manages all of the non-endowment banking relationships on behalf of the university, oversees the university’s internal university bank and capital bank, and manages the university’s external debt portfolio.  Treasury also works closely with other Finance Units at Vanderbilt, including most especially Purchasing and Payment Services, Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, and Business Services.

Key Functions and Expected Performance:

• Support Cash Management operations, activities include: assist with daily cash packet, spreadsheet preparation and reconciliation of the university’s daily operating cash position; complete monthly operating cash summary in Cash Flow Summary spreadsheet along with monthly cash inflows/outflows spreadsheet; assist with Weekly Treasury Report preparation; and other duties as assigned.
• Assist reconciliations for monthly Incoming wire account and cash clearing account.
• Upload Oracle Cash Management External Transactions, when necessary. 
• Assist Payment Services on an as-needed basis with supplier/vendor maintenance bank account verification process.
• Assist with preparation of bond reporting, rating agency reporting, and/or bank line of credit compliance reporting.
• Serve as university lead in PCI compliance; maintain detailed knowledge of the PCI Data Security Standards, especially updates to the standards and deadlines for implementation, coordinate any cross-departmental meetings regarding PCI, including annual meetings of the PCI Steering Committee, and create an annual PCI training for the staff of merchant departments to complete and track user completion.
• Maintain list of all merchant departments who accept credit cards on campus and ensure that all required information is complete, accurate, and updated regularly, while working with departments to ensure that all credit card processing on campus is PCI Compliant.
• Serve as primary contact with Vanderbilt’s Security Assessor, acquiring bank, VUIT and merchant departments to ensure alignment with both industry standards and university policies and appropriate responses to security incidences.
• Assist with other analytical and accounting-related tasks as assigned, including monthly, quarterly, and fiscal year-end tasks, management financial reporting (capital bank and university bank), and Board of Trust reporting.  These tasks require extensive use of Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and performing complex analytical tasks.
• Participate as a key contributor to executive and operational leadership by proactively demonstrating creative and strategic problem-solving skills.
• Promote an environment of collaboration, transparency, approachability, and support.
• Consistently anticipate the needs of business partners, collaborating and communicating potential solutions to emerging issues.
• Advance the current level of organizational sophistication around financial planning.
• Utilize advanced functions of spreadsheet, database, and presentation software applications.

Supervisory Relationships:

This position does not have supervisory responsibilities; this position reports administratively and functionally to the Treasury Manager.

Education and Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with five years or more experience.
• MBA or related Master’s degree is preferred.

Experience and Skills:

• Three years working with payment card industry data security standards is highly preferred.
• Ability to form productive alliances effectively and persuasively with financial and non-financial administrators at all levels of the organization.
• Exceptional ability to bridge gaps and problem-solve to reach solutions that address the needs of stakeholders.
• Ability to balance competing priorities.

Key Characteristics of a Successful Team Member in this Work Unit:

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills – collaboration, partnership and change management skills.
• Sophisticated mental agility and the ability to work and/or manage up in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
• Humility and collegiality in the face of adversity and challenge.
• Strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with staff, peers, and other university and outside contacts.