Treasury Program Manager

Treasury Program Manager

Chicago IL- In person interview required, so locals only.

Onsite 3 days a week

Only on W2

• Treasury Program Manager IV
• Lead end-to-end execution of treasury transformation programs and projects, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals, treasury priorities, and expected return on investment.
• The role combines disciplined program and portfolio management with practical knowledge of treasury operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead treasury transformation programs and projects from envision through activation and benefits realization.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, resource requirements, constraints, risks, dependencies, and critical-path activities.
• Use Smartsheet to manage plans, track milestones, monitor risks and issues, and support cross-functional collaboration and transparent status reporting.
• Establish program governance, decision forums, escalation paths, stakeholder engagement plans, and clear accountability for deliverables.
• Proactively manage project activities, resource needs, interdependencies, and implementation readiness across workstreams.
• Partner with Procurement, Finance FP&A, Digital Technology, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Internal Audit, Account Payable, and banking partners, and other business stakeholders to define scope, clarify requirements, resolve issues, and drive decisions.
• Support proofs of concept, pilots, soft launches, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities with stakeholders across functional areas.
• Partner up with other teams to ensure current-state and future-state process mapping, requirements analysis, and process improvement are conducted across treasury activities.
• Ensure change management activities such as communication, training, procedures, and change readiness are conducted to support adoption and sustainable business outcomes.
• Monitor project and program performance and provide clear, concise reporting to project teams, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Ensure portfolio initiatives remain aligned with business priorities, treasury strategy, expected benefits, ROI, and objectives and key results.
• Set priorities, facilitate trade-off decisions, and maintain focus on the highest-value outcomes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Drive modernization of treasury data, reporting, and analytics to improve real-time visibility, decision support, monitoring, and exception management.
• Lead project/program initiatives involving treasury management systems, cash application, reconciliations, and payment transformation as applicable.

Required Qualifications:

• 8 plus years of program, project, or portfolio management experience, including finance or treasury transformation.
• Demonstrated treasury experience in a corporate, banking, consulting, or financial services environment, with working knowledge of treasury operations and controls.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs, projects, or portfolios valued at $2 million or more.
• Experience in large-scale treasury or finance operations.
• Ability to translate treasury and financial strategy into executable plans, operating processes, controls, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong conflict resolution, active listening, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate technical, operational, and financial concepts clearly and concisely.
• Ability to balance strategic perspective with disciplined management of tactical details.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, adaptable, and comfortable operating in dynamic or ambiguous environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and multitasking capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Teams, Visio, and Word.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience managing treasury initiatives involving complex data flows, integrations, and cross-functional process handoffs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Treasury transformation experience.
• Aviation industry experience.
• Process improvement and organizational change management experience.
• Experience supporting treasury technology implementation, bank connectivity, payment modernization, or treasury process optimization.
• Professional certification such as PMP, PfMP, Green Belt, or Lean Six Sigma.
• Exposure to Agile delivery methods.
• Experience with different forms of payment, treasury reporting and/or analytics tools.
• Experience applying data, automation, dashboarding, or AI-enabled capabilities to treasury operations while maintaining governance and control requirements.
• Proficiency in Smartsheet.