Finance Executive, Group Treasury

About the Role

The Treasury Executive supports the accurate and timely operation of EQ Group Treasury. Working as part of the Chennai Treasury Operations team, the role provides daily operational support and analysis across a wide range of corporate treasury activities, while developing the technical knowledge and judgement required to progress within the profession. The role combines repeatable daily controls with varied assignments and improvement work. The successful candidate will be expected to be curious, ask questions, follow documented procedures, escalate issues promptly and progressively take ownership as their knowledge and confidence develop.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily cash and liquidity operations
• Monitor bank balances and prepare accurate daily cash and liquidity positions across entities, regions and currencies.
• Distinguish between available, restricted, regulated and other designated cash in accordance with reporting requirements.
• Identify unusual balances or movements, investigate differences and escalate material issues promptly.
• Support short-term cash forecasting, cash concentration, cash pooling and funding movements.
• Assist with monitoring revolving credit facility utilisation, upcoming maturities and debt-service requirements.
• Payments and treasury settlements
• Prepare treasury and high-value payments across approved banking platforms, supported by complete and appropriate documentation.
• Follow delegated authority, segregation of duties, template indexing, approval and cut-off controls.
• Monitor payment status and investigate rejected, delayed or returned transactions.
• Support the settlement and recording of deposits, foreign exchange, debt, intercompany loans and other treasury transactions.
• Maintain a clear audit trail and escalate control exceptions or timing risks without delay.
• Treasury systems and data
• Maintain complete and accurate data in FIS Integrity, including bank accounts, counterparties, static data, rates, investments, debt, intercompany funding and treasury transactions as assigned.
• Perform routine checks to confirm that system data agrees to bank, deal and accounting support.
• Support electronic bank account management, banking access administration and periodic user-access reviews.
• Assist with system testing, issue resolution, data quality improvements and new functionality.
• Apply good information security and access-control practices across all systems and banking platforms.
• Banking and bank-account administration
• Support bank account opening, amendment and closure activity, including documentation, KYC and internal approvals.
• Maintain bank-account, mandate, authorised-signatory and online-access records.
• Support periodic reviews of bank fees, credit ratings, counterparty information and service matters.
• Coordinate professionally with relationship banks, internal Finance teams and authorised approvers.
• Help ensure that banking requests are tracked to completion and supporting evidence is retained.
• Reporting, accounting and control
• Produce daily, weekly, monthly and ad-hoc treasury reports with a high standard of accuracy and presentation.
• Support month-end activities, including interest income and expense accruals, treasury reconciliations, journals and variance analysis.
• Provide analysis for Treasury Committee reporting, dashboards, audit requests and management information.
• Support monitoring of policy compliance, limits, maturities, facility usage and control completion.
• Maintain evidence, checklists and records so that work is reviewable and audit-ready.
• Financial risk and funding support
• Assist with identifying and recording foreign-exchange exposures, trades and settlements.
• Support intercompany loan administration, interest calculations, maturities and documentation tracking.
• Help monitor deposit and investment positions, rates and counterparty limits in line with approved policies.
• Provide accurate input data and analysis for liquidity, interest rate, credit and funding decisions.
• Develop an understanding of EQ’s debt structure, covenant reporting and wider financial-risk framework.
• Client and regulated cash support
• Support approved daily and periodic reporting for relevant client or fiduciary cash balances.
• Assist with diversification, backfill, interest-rate and balance-monitoring processes where assigned and trained.
• Follow applicable procedures carefully and escalate exceptions to the designated reviewer.
• Maintain a clear distinction between corporate and client or regulated cash processes.

Qualifications & Skills

• A bachelor’s degree in commerce, finance, accounting, economics, business or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Up to two years’ experience in treasury, finance, accounting, banking, payments, cash management or another data-led operational environment. Strong graduates with relevant internships or demonstrable interest will also be considered.
• Good numerical ability and confidence working with financial data.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including organizing, checking and analyzing data.
• Clear written and spoken English, with the confidence to ask questions and explain an issue.
• High attention to detail and a disciplined approach to controls, deadlines and evidence.
• Willingness to learn unfamiliar systems, processes and treasury concepts.
• Ability to manage several tasks, priorities appropriately and escalate when support is needed.
• A collaborative, service-minded approach when working across teams and locations.