Treasury Specialist

Firm Overview

Lunate is a new Abu Dhabi-based, Partner-led, independent global alternative investment manager with more than 150 employees and $105 billion of assets under management. Lunate invests across the entire private markets spectrum including buyouts, growth equity, early and late-stage venture capital, private credit, real assets, and public equities and public credit. Lunate aims to be one of the world’s leading private markets solutions providers through SMAs and multi-asset class funds, seeking to generate best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for its clients.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitor daily cash flow and cash positions to ensure there is sufficient liquidity to meet operational requirements.
• Develop and maintain cash forecasting models to predict future cash needs and support decision making.
• Assist in executing different type of payments (wire transfers, ACH payments, and other financial transactions) and reconcile bank accounts.
• Maintain bank account information and signatory lists, including online banking/TMS user list.
• Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations and internal policies and procedures.
• Prepare and ensure completeness of management reporting suite (cash, forecast, counterparty exposures, FX exposures, and others)
• Ensure timely placement and settlement (including matching and confirmation) for cash investments (e.g. Term Deposits) or FX/IR related trades
• Assist in managing relationships with banks and financial institutions to optimize banking services and minimize costs.
• Drive cash optimization initiatives, including design and implementation of cash pooling structures
• Support Treasury Front Office and Fund Finance operations team.
• Assist in the development and implementation of Finance and Treasury policies and procedures as appropriate.
• Support in the scoping and implementation of various treasury systems (e.g. TMS).

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of relevant work experience, with at least 3 years in a similar specialist role.
• Prior experience in a banking, private equity, investment management environment strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting required.
• Master’s degree (Finance or Business Administration) preferred.
• Professional certifications in Finance or Accountancy, such as CTP, CFA, FRM, CPA, ACA, CIMA or ACCA strongly preferred.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills including conflict resolution skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Team-oriented with a collaborative approach.
• Ability to work as part of a small team in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Willingness to do more that your “day job” and be part of building a team and organization.
• Experience with (and preferably implementing) treasury management systems (particularly FIS Integrity).
• Excellent quantitative, analytical and presentation skills including the ability to build detailed financial and cashflow models and Power BI reports.
• Strong understanding of financial structuring, financial products, cash management and financial risk management.
• Excellent technical understanding of global payments systems (e.g. SWIFT etc.) and bank counterparty payment processes.
• Experience with treasury/finance software, FX/MMF dealing platforms and programs (e.g. Bloomberg FX Go, Refinitiv, Mosaic, MS PBI and Excel etc.)
• Knowledge of financial markets, investment instruments, and risk management.
• Understanding of the broader roles of the treasury function within large organizations.