Head of treasury

We are the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in South-East Asia. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and SMBs to realize their full potential.

We have successfully closed an oversubscribed US$ 100 million Series C equity round in 2023 led by Sequoia and Lightspeed with participation of Tencent and PayPal. Since its inception in 2018, we have raised over US$ 300 million from world-class investors to power our solutions we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and help more than 15,000 businesses using our suite of products.

In 2020 we were awarded Hottest Startup by Singapore Business Review and Finalist MAS Fintech Awards. In 2021 and 2022 we were named in LinkedIn's Top 5 Startups in Singapore and awarded Best Employer of the Year and best Payments Tech 2022 by Asia Fintech Awards .

You will be amazed by our energy and ambition. We are a team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and A players with international and diverse (45% of us are women) backgrounds. We team up to excel in what we do, and don't take NO for an answer.

We are expanding rapidly. Are you a top talent? Are you passionate about entrepreneurship? Join us and make an impact in the Fintech space!

About Aspire:

Aspire is the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in South-East Asia. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018 by former Lazada founders and executives, Aspire has raised over USD 200M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. To power our solutions we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise.

In 2020 we were awarded Hottest Startup by Singapore Business Review and Finalist MAS Fintech Awards, and in 2021 were named in LinkedIn's Top 5 Startups to work for in Singapore. In 2022, we were awarded Best Employer of the Year and Payments Tech of the Year by Asia Fintech Awards , and also made it on LinkedIn's 2022 Top Startups list in Singapore.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team. We are a team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international backgrounds. We team up to reach the highest standards in what we do, and don't take NO for an answer.

We are expanding rapidly. Are you a top talent? Are you passionate about entrepreneurship? Join us and make an impact in the fintech space.

About the role:

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to head our Group Treasury team of 4 people.

What will you be doing?

• Treasury policies: Create, implement and improve Operating manuals and treasury policies to allow the treasury team to operate in a defined framework
• Cash and liquidity management: Maintain up-to-date knowledge and understanding of liquidity regulation requirements for subsidiaries. Recommend with strategies for cash repatriation to parent company without disrupting local or parent entity liquidity requirements
• Forecasting management: Build and maintain models and methodologies for liquidity forecasting for group and subsidiary companies, including centralising and co-ordinating input from business units
• Investment Management: define and implement our idle cash investment strategy
• Treasury reporting: Control and report the corporate treasury owned risks and key results (including activities with banks, counterparty risk and treasury efficiency) building plans to mitigate material risks and improve key results.
• FX and interest rate risk management: Define and implement our hedging strategy in adherence with our Treasury policies
• Treasury support to Product: Partner with our tech team to optimise the cash flows and the margin of our Aspire payment products
• Bank relationship management: Initiate, manage and enhance the Group's banking relationships. Support our regional and internal expansion. Facilitate bank onboarding, periodic reviews. Optimise our bank accounts structure and services.

We would love to get to know you if you have the following:

• +10 years experience in a Financial advisory, financial institution or FinTech firm in Corporate Treasury functions.
• Experience in leading a Treasury team, Treasury transformation projects and using a Treasury Management System.
• Experience in implementing FX hedging strategies, managing debt instruments and optimising intercompany funds flow. Solid understanding of global financial markets, products, key Treasury concepts and IFRS.
• You feel passionate about Tech and Start-ups, as well as implementing your skills and knowledge in creation and improvement of controls framework and internal processes.
• Strong problem solving skills, you will be able to break down complex issues into their component parts, identifying the root cause and create elegant solutions. You are a self starter and can organise your own work
• You are detail oriented, with ability to deliver and communicate complex areas on time and succinctly. You are able to work with multiple teams within and outside of finance as well as internationally on projects or ad hoc requests as required, with flexibility and a can do attitude.

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