Director, Treasury

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · Bethesda, MD

GEICO is seeking a Treasury Director to oversee Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Corporate Banking, and Short-term Investments. The role involves optimizing receivables, cash management, forecasting, payables, internal controls, and supporting corporate finance strategies. The candidate will manage banking relationships, partner with systems for automation, ensure compliance with SOX, and implement new treasury management technologies. Requires 12-15 years of experience, team management, strong analytical and financial modeling skills, and a Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or accounting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee all treasury activities around cash management, banking strategy, cash forecasting, short-term investing to optimize returns, accounts payables and expense policy enforcement, internal controls, and broader corporate finance strategies. This includes oversight of bank and brokerage account strategy, as well as account opening and management, funding and liquidity management, and investment of short- term cash balances.
  2. Actively manage banking relationships. Responsible for driving banking strategy and pricing, account structure and management.
  3. Partner with Controllers and Systems to ensure accurate and automated cash flow forecast, as well as timely reporting and reconciliation of all cash activity.
  4. Ensure all Treasury procedures, internal controls, SOX requirements, etc. are followed and identify and monitor industry and market trends to further enhance controls and processes.
  5. Develop new controls and procedure documents where needed and/or appropriate. Develop and maintain treasury operational policies.

Skills

Required

  • 12-15 years of relevant experience in cash management treasury operations and/or corporate finance / banking background
  • experience managing a team of 10 or more
  • Strong analytical, financial modeling, and systems skills
  • Strong knowledge of cash management principles as well as bank products and services online banking tools wires ACH credit card processing etc.
  • Experienced in handling complex banking and organizational structures and banking systems and processes.
  • Proficiency in MS Excel and various treasury management systems.
  • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and commitment to high-quality work product
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple key stakeholders and coordinate across various teams to execute necessary functions and agreed upon plans
  • Strong oral and written communication skills including strong presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, or accounting is preferred
  • additional graduate degrees or certifications (Masters, MBA, CTP, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • high visibility and accountability
  • revamp and improve existing processes
  • identify and execute on new solutions
  • prioritize multiple concurrent, complex tasks
  • strong attention to detail
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • interpersonal skills are critical