Specialist, Treasury - Cash Management

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Specialist, Treasury — Cash Management

Nationwide's Treasury team is seeking a Specialist to support the financial operations and cash management functions. This position plays a critical role in managing cash flows, liquidity, banking services and payment activity across a large, complex insurance and financial services organization. The team operates in a highly automated, systematic environment that combines real-time cash positioning and investing with high-value, moderate-volume transaction processing. Team members also have opportunities to broaden their treasury expertise through rotational assignments in areas such as bank relationship and account management, debt financing, and emerging payment and collection processes.

About the Position

Reporting the Director of Treasury, the Specialist, will help ensure cash is positioned effectively, payments and transfers are executed accurately, and liquidity is managed in support of business needs. This role is well suited for an intellectually curious finance professional who enjoys combining analysis, operational execution, process improvement and cross-functional partnership.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor daily cash positions, opening account balances and related file interfaces; investigate and resolve balance or file-feed exceptions.
• Process and validate cash transactions, including wires, ACH, cross-border payments, foreign exchange trades, transfers and batch transactions, in accordance with established controls and procedures.
• Balance the internal cash management pool, calculate daily interest and expense allocations, and partner with Short-Term Investments on related investing activities.
• Maintain cash-flow forecasts and operational reporting; analyze forecast-to-actual results to identify trends and emerging needs.
• Support banking services and account administration, including implementing new services, opening or closing accounts, and monitoring banking costs and fee drivers.
• Prepare and monitor short- and long-term debt roll-forwards, funding data, liquidity advances and rating-agency requests.
• Partner with business teams and banking partners to assess access needs, implement solutions and support projects or transformational efforts involving cash and payment processing.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, strengthen controls and enhance treasury operations; stay current on treasury practices and payment innovations.
• Contribute to data-integration monitoring and troubleshooting, disaster-recovery planning and testing, and other department initiatives.

Qualifications & Competencies:

• Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, economics, banking or a related field.
• Previous professional experience in treasury and cash management; experience in an accounting or finance related position is highly transferrable.
• Related experience in finance, accounting, information technology, banking or project management is valuable.
• Experience with daily cash positioning, electronic funds transfers, liquidity management, bank cash-flow analysis or treasury workstation processes is beneficial.
• Strong analytical, logical and general business-analysis skills, including proficiency with Excel.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, economics, financial analysis, banking, treasury and investment operations.
• Familiarity with process analysis, system requirements, or utilization of Treasury Management platform.
• Detail-oriented, control-minded and adaptable, with strong follow-through and curiosity.
• Ability to solve problems, manage competing priorities and work effectively across functions.
• Demonstrated skill working under pressure - comfortable to problem solve and resolve unexpected errors or discrepancies that may occur with regular, time-sensitive processes.

This role does not qualify for employer sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT extension program.  

It is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, OH as part of our Successflex hybrid work schedule. However, applications from candidates working remotely who bring critical indust