Treasury Analyst

Stake is looking for a Treasury Analyst to join us at our Sydney CBD HQ, with a flexible hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 WFH).

We're an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we've empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 700,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we're driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we're spread around the world, we're a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.

**About this role**:
The Treasury Analyst plays a critical role in safeguarding and optimizing Stake's financial resources. This involves meticulous cash flow management, astute risk mitigation, and providing insightful financial analysis to empower informed decision-making. The Treasury Analyst will contribute directly to Stake's growth trajectory by ensuring robust liquidity, efficient capital allocation, and prudent financial risk management. Your responsibilities will include:
**Cash Management**:

- Own daily cash positioning and prepare cash flow forecasts to support strategic initiatives.
- Seamlessly initiate and execute electronic funds transfers.
- Maintain meticulous bank account reconciliations, promptly resolving discrepancies.
- Collaborate in the management of short-term investments to maximize returns.

**Financial Risk Management**:

- Proactively assist in identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial risks, encompassing interest rate, foreign exchange, credit risk, and liquidity risk.
- Diligently monitor compliance with hedging policies and procedures.
- Generate insightful reports on financial risk exposures for informed decision-making.
- Work with product and engineering to implement controls into the product that allow us to effectively manage risk.

**Treasury Operations**:

- Contribute to the development and implementation of robust treasury policies and procedures.
- Maintain accurate, complete and up-to-date treasury records, ensuring data integrity.
- Prepare comprehensive treasury reports for management and external stakeholders.
- Actively participate in special projects and initiatives as needed.
- Automation of existing operational processes.

**A bit about you**:

- Bachelor's degree in finance, commerce, mathematics, economics or related discipline
- Proficiency with financial data analysis, interpretation, and manipulation using Excel or PowerBI
- Understanding of various financial products and markets
- Strategic mindset with the ability to drive key outcomes and contribute to business growth.
- Experience with SQL, Python, R, MATLAB, Tableau desirable

**Benefits of working at Stake**:
You'll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks.
- Professional development allowance
- Wellbeing allowance
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Childcare allowance
- Extra paid leave during tough times
- Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We're proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We're also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

**So what happens next?**:

- To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes._