Senior Treasury Specialist (Hybrid Working)

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

The Role

The Senior Treasury Specialist will report to the Assistant Treasurer and manage the day to day regional treasury operations in Asia, ensuring adequate controls and efficient transaction systems and processes are in place to do this. This includes managing the transactional banking footprint across Asia and operational cashflow management in Asia, working with the Senior Treasury Operations Manager to ensure consistency across APAC. The Senior Treasury Specialist will work with with Assistant Treasurer to optimise cash throughout Asia and manage relationships with key banking partners and serve as the key point of contact internally and externally to embed the payments strategy and operating model across the Group. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in treasury operations, and excellent analytical and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Senior Treasury Operations Manager to manage day-to-day treasury operations across Asia, including cash positioning, cash forecasting, and liquidity management, feeding into the Group cash management and forecasting process as required.
• Manage the transactional banking landscape for Asia, ensuring appropriate segregation of duties, assessment and implementation of new transactional banking technologies, management of bank accounts and compliance with bank agreements, regulations and Treasury policy, this includes managing and maintaining authorised persons/signatories on bank accounts, feeding into the Senior Treasury Operations Manager to ensure consistency across APAC.
• Work closely with Assistant Treasurer to manage funding across the region and placement of surplus cash by maximizing the IRR
• Support the Head of Treasury to manage transactional banking relationships with key banking partners
• Serve as the key point of contact internally and externally to embed the payment channel strategy and operating model across the Group, including preparing regular evaluations of current and future payment methods across the Group.
• Be trained as a back-up for Treasury Settlements.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of treasury operations
• Stay informed about industry trends and best practices in treasury management

The Team

The Group Treasury team is responsible for the end-to-end management of financial risks including:

• establishing and maintaining relationships with external financiers;
• maintaining treasury policy guidelines;
• hedge strategy and implementation;
• maintenance of treasury processes, systems and controls;
• transaction confirmation, settlement and execution;
• related forecasting and analysis.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• Professional Treasury or finance qualification
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in treasury operations (back office role), preferably in a corporate environment
• Experience managing transactional banking across multiple businesses and regions.
• Experience with cash & liquidity management including forecasting and reporting.

Other Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Excellent analytical, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail, ability to prioritise tasks and able to work under tight timeline
• Able to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Ability to problem solve.
• Display energetic, self-motivated and quick thinking with positive attitude.
• Proficiency in treasury management systems and Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with a diverse group of backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable approach but don't meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.