Location: Princeton, NJ
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Overview: This newly-created position is responsible for the University’s cash and liquidity operations and will lead the transition of the cash management department from today’s more transactional and operational activities to a future-state strategic and value-added function. The incumbent will be expected to bring extensive Treasury expertise to drive significant change in the department, with the goal of creating efficiencies through process improvements and automation. This combination; taking on and ensuring completion of today’s critical operational work while simultaneously developing new and better ways of working, requires a significant level of functional expertise in cash and liquidity management, investing, banking products, debt, modeling and forecasting, and Treasury-specific software systems. It also requires advanced interpersonal skills along with the foresight and creativity to identify areas for improvement and develop solutions. In addition, the candidate should have a background in maintaining appropriate financial controls in a high-risk area. The Analyst will independently create data and forecasts that will be used by senior management and the Board of Trustees to make impactful financial decisions surrounding the investment of operating cash and the timing and scale of working capital borrowing, resulting in a potential budgetary impact of several millions of dollars per year. The ideal candidate will demonstrate both the hard-technical skills as well as the soft interpersonal skills that are required for success in this new role. Responsibilities: Cash Management Process Improvement and Automation - Quickly master the current legacy, transactional cash operation processes - Identify and prioritize individual processes that can be improved through process flow changes and/or automation using a data-driven analysis of time, effort, cost, etc. - Develop from scratch the relevant business cases for technology investments, such as an invoicing