Assistant Treasurer

Position: Assistant Treasurer

Department: Finance

Reporting to: CFO

FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Bentonville, AR

Walton Enterprises is seeking a skilled, highly motivated, and entrepreneurial individual to join the team in Bentonville as Assistant Treasurer. The ideal candidate will have the demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally across the organization, managing treasury and banking activities for a sophisticated organization with a complex structure.

About the Position

The Assistant Treasurer will lead and oversee the treasury team to support the organization's long-term financial needs and will be responsible for cash and liquidity management, cash flow budgeting, and forecasting, loan and credit facility management, compliance reporting, maintenance of a strong internal controls environment, continuous benchmarking to best practices, and proactively providing strategic insights to senior leadership.

The Assistant Treasurer will develop and maintain relationships with each of the company's banking, credit and custodial partners and will work very closely with departments across the organization, including accounting and tax, among others. The Assistant Treasurer is expected to mentor and develop a team with the goal of creating a positive work environment that both challenges and rewards personnel while providing an opportunity for continued growth and development.

This role operates in a highly complex, multi-entity family office environment and requires exceptional judgment, discretion, and the ability to manage competing priorities.

What you will do

Cash and liquidity management and loan management with reporting at regular intervals and on an ad hoc basis.

• Strategic cash flow forecasting and budgeting on a short and long term basis for both operating and investment cash flow needs.

• Responsible for the implementation and oversight of effective controls for all cash receipts and disbursements: check, ACH, wire.

• Establish and maintain relationships with banks, custodians, and other service providers.

• Maintain an overall Treasury Risk Management program that includes a control environment with proper checks and balances, security, and segregation of duties to help mitigate fraud, including cyber initiated.

• Monitor and manage the ongoing internal and external compliance reporting requirements for all debt obligations and credit facilities, including establishing procedures to facilitate the timely preparation of accurate covenant reporting.

• Learn and master existing firm deployed technologies, identify new technologies to improve efficiencies and assist in the assessment of future technology initiatives including treasury cash management platforms.

• Continuously benchmark treasury processes, controls and technologies to drive accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.

• Assist in the negotiation and review of banking and credit agreements.

• Develop KPI dashboard reporting capabilities.

• Facilitate and manage third party control reviews and assessments

• Oversee the process of opening bank accounts.

• Manage, mentor, lead and develop a high performing Treasury team.

• Develop and maintain automated reporting frameworks integrating data across treasury, ERP, and related systems.

• Identify and coordinate department training initiatives for systems, processes, and financial literacy.

Skills and attributes needed for success

• Possess strong analytical skills, including advanced financial forecasting concepts and practices.

• Proven change agent with a demonstrated ability to leverage technology to improve efficiencies.

• Knowledge of best practices and proven ability to implement them in the areas of Treasury operations, regulation, and compliance.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communicating complex, technical concepts to leadership both orally and visually.

• Self-starter who operates comfortably along the spectrum from in depth analysis to strategic thinker.

• Collaborates respectfully and effectively with others with an ability to foster a productive team-oriented work environment that supports and promotes continuous learning and development.

• Strong executive presence with relationship-building skills.

• Ability to multitask, including leading high-profile, time-sensitive projects.

• Demonstrates discretion, integrity, and expertise while serving as a trusted advisor to principals and colleagues.

• Personal drive for excellence approaching challenges with curiosity and bold thinking with a commitment to continuous learning, improvement, and innovation.

• Maintains a strong focus on results, consistently exercising sound judgment and decision-making.

Qualifications required for your success

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field

• 10 years of progressive treasury management experience

• Tech savvy, change agent with intellectual curiosity who seeks opportunities to leverage technology

Additional Helpful Experience Includes

• Relevant Professional Certifications including CPA, CTP, or CFA

All offers of employment are contingent on your successful completion (where permitted by state law) of a confidentiality agreement and background check. In addition, you will need to provide proper identification verifying your eligibility to work in the United States on your first day of work.

Benefits Information

Compensation Range: $254,000-$317,000

Benefits Information: We offer a comprehensive and generous benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan and paid time off.