Treasury Specialist

Brown-Forman Corporation•Louisville, KY

23h

About The Position

The Treasury Specialist is responsible for worldwide establishment and maintenance of Brown-Forman’s 200+ global bank accounts. The role also prepares relevant compliance documents and provides administrative support to the Treasury department. Also responsible for the back office function for foreign exchange (FX), commodities, and cash management. This role will manage the process of establishing, maintaining and monitoring all of Brown-Forman’s bank accounts which includes building banking relationships, establishing and following procedures as each entity, bank, country dictates. The role will also produce quarterly compliance packages for all Brown-Forman debt agreements, act as back-office person for Treasury foreign exchange, commodity and cash management confirmation and process roles.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with three years experience (in banking or like industry a plus) or Associate Degree with five to seven years experience and/or eight to ten years equivalent education/experience combination with administrative office function.
Strong interest in international business operations, including familiarity with geography and practices outside of the U.S.
Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships with Brown-Forman’s financial community and internal Brown-Forman personnel.
Excellent oral and written communications skills, ability to clearly and tactfully respond to inquiries and composes routine correspondence and presentations as directed.
Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills, including project management and planning.
Experience and proficiency with software systems such as Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, meet deadlines, solve problems, and reach independent judgments.
Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality of information.
Ability to work a flexible schedule as needed

Nice To Haves

Previous experience with a Corporate Treasury function as a Treasury Specialist
Paralegal
Notary Public
Experience using technology to drive process efficiencies
Foreign Language Skills

Responsibilities

Bank Account Administration Establish, monitor, maintain, and terminate Brown-Forman’s 200+ global bank accounts.
Generate individualized resolution packages and supporting documents required by each country and each bank; interact with B-F Legal team to ensure resolutions/documents are compliant with corporate governance; coordination of signatures and delivery to bank; maintain file of current passports or standard signers; follow up with banks to confirm changes.
Prepare/notarize associated documents: power of attorney, incumbency and secretary’s certificates, etc.
Maintain global bank account database to keep signatories and authorizations current and correct.
Manage Compliance, Regulatory And Fraud Prevention Processes Provide FATCA and Self-Certifications (CSR) documents as part of Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance requests
Manage Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements in various markets / jurisdictions
Prepare compliance certificates and reporting packages, coordinate internal review, and submit required loan compliance documentation to financial institutions.
Prepare audit confirmations for external audit (annually) and internal audit (as requested).
Cash Management And Foreign Exchange Processes Primary In SAP: Create new business partners and make changes to existing business partners when traders have new banks or if there are any changes to banks or delivery instructions; generate freeform payments as needed.
Settle FX contracts (using Finastra and SAP systems), noting that trades are within approved hedging parameters.
Dissolve FX contracts mid-month and perform various FX reporting and system activities.
Monthly compliance reporting and statement verification.
Manage bank guarantees, draft letter of credit applications and amendments as needed.
Process related invoices for payment.
Other Duties As traders perform their daily trades of commercial paper, time deposits, etc., perform settlement of CP investments, CP issuances, time deposit investments, etc. in SAP.
Ensure proper loading of foreign exchange rates from Bloomberg into the Treasury database and SAP.