Treasury & Credit Analyst

Vallourec - North America•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Treasury & Credit Analyst completes day-to-day treasury activities to help maintain critical working capital levels for Vallourec’s North American entities. The role also performs timely credit reviews and decisions for new customers to mitigate trade credit risk, provides customer service to stakeholders, maintains clear communication, and generates accurate reporting for management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration.
At least 2 years of experience in treasury operations and cash management.
At least 2 years of experience in credit and risk management with trade credit exposure.
At least 2 years of experience with Treasury Management Systems and banking portals.
Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables and complex formulas, as well as Word and database skills; experience using finance tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Detail orientation and strong analytical skills.
Presentation and organizational skills.
Cash management and financial statement analysis skills.
Intermediate negotiation skills.
Customer-service orientation.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ERPs, preferably SAP ECC.

Responsibilities

Complete twice-daily cash balancing and prepare daily cash position reports covering incoming and outgoing cash flows.
Generate daily, weekly, and monthly cash reports for management review.
Monitor incoming and outgoing payments and ensure cash availability for working capital across North American entities and their corresponding bank accounts.
Process approved scheduled and off-cycle outgoing electronic payment requests.
Create and modify ACH and wire templates for approval.
Generate and distribute payment confirmation details.
Review and action exception items, including ACH Positive Pay, and distribute returned payment details.
Review and recommend excess cash repatriation transfer amounts daily or as needed.
Prepare payment forms for cash pool fund distributions and load payments into the bank system.
Verify banking transactions and investigate and resolve discrepancies.
Complete remote check deposits daily or as needed, and distribute supporting documentation.
Generate and load prior-week actual activity into the Taiga forecasting system and prepare associated variance reporting.
Set up and modify banks in SAP for management review and approval.
Reconcile auto-debit transactions as needed.
Maintain the security and confidentiality of financial records and treasury activities and transactions.
Assist the Treasury Operations Manager with special projects and perform other assigned treasury duties.
Conduct timely credit reviews for new customer applications under company policy and assign credit limits as applicable.
Obtain third-party credit reporting data through provider platforms for departmental use and internal stakeholder requests.
Apply for and obtain trade credit insurance decisions for selected customers as needed.
Complete buyer reviews requested by the trade credit insurance provider.
Communicate with internal and external stakeholders about credit applications, reviews, and trade credit insurance information.
Create and maintain customer master data and credit information in ERP, internal relational database programs, and associated systems.
Review and complete third-party trade reference requests.
Generate and distribute monthly credit dashboard information to designated stakeholders.
Gather and analyze data for quarterly trade credit insurance declarations and review it with the Treasury Operations Manager.
Compile quarterly ROCC (regional operational credit committee) presentations for internal stakeholders.
Update the Credit Management procedures manual and execute customer master data additions and updates.
Perform other assigned trade finance and customer master data duties.