Main purpose
The Treasury Technology department delivers strategic projects across Group Treasury, covering Treasury Payments, Treasury Capital, and FX & Interest Rate Risk Management. The current portfolio includes the rollout of a new Payment Hub and the consolidation of Group Treasury data across multiple systems.
The Connectivity and Data Lead is a treasury-domain role with strong technical fluency. The role owns bank connectivity, treasury data stewardship, and the functional configuration of treasury platforms — partnering with IT to deliver the underlying technical build.
The successful candidate will come from a treasury, payments, or treasury-technology background and will be comfortable specifying integrations, configuring platforms, validating data, and acting as the day-to-day functional owner of treasury connectivity. Detailed system design, build, and architecture sit with the IT function, who this role will partner with closely.
In the near term, the role will play a hands-on part in the rollout of the new Payment Hub — establishing bank account connectivity, configuring the application, and validating end-to-end data flows.
Key responsibilities
a. Treasury connectivity & platform configuration:
- Own the functional setup and ongoing operation of bank connectivity for Group Treasury, including SWIFT Service Bureau, FileAct, Host-to-Host, and API-based bank channels.
- Liaise with the SWIFT Service Bureau vendor on connectivity setup, troubleshooting, and user access reviews.
- Execute bank account setup and connectivity configuration in the new Payment Hub, Internal Static Reference Data system, thus, ensuring consistent bank records across upstream systems and the hub.
- Configure connectivity to external data providers and trading platforms — FX execution systems, market data feeds, loan management platforms, and interest rate benchmarks (SOFR, EURIBOR) — working with IT on the underlying integration build.
- Coordinate UAT, connectivity testing, and end-to-end data validation.
b. Treasury data stewardship & governance:
- Document existing data flows across Group Treasury processes and identify gaps, inconsistencies, and redundancies from a business perspective.
- Define the functional data requirements for Treasury Payments, Treasury Capital, and FX & Interest Rate Risk Management, and act as the business data owner working with IT data architects on the technical model.
- Specify and validate dashboards and reporting outputs that surface treasury data to end users; partner with IT and analytics teams on build.
- Maintain data quality, lineage documentation, and definitions for treasury reference and transactional data.
c. Hands-on execution & operational data:
- Manually replicate and validate new bank account data from workflow tools into the treasury static data system, maintaining accuracy across systems during the interim period.
- Define functional requirements for IT to design and automate connectivity between workflow tools and treasury systems, eliminating manual handoffs over time.
- Act as first-line support for connectivity and data issues raised by Treasury users; triage and route to IT as needed.
d. Continuous improvement & automation:
- Identify and document opportunities where automation, tooling, or AI could improve data quality, reduce manual effort, enhance straight-through processing, or improve reporting in the treasury landscape.
- Support the testing and validation of AI-assisted data tools and automation solutions, providing structured business feedback on accuracy, data integrity, and operational fit.
- Stay current with developments in treasury technology and AI applications relevant to treasury operations, sharing relevant insights with the wider team.
Required qualifications
- 6–10 years of experience in treasury operations, treasury technology, payments, or treasury data roles within financial services, corporate treasury, or commodities trading environments.
- Hands-on functional experience with at least one Treasury Management System (Kyriba, SAP Treasury, FIS Quantum, or equivalent), including configuration of bank accounts, payment workflows, and connectivity.
- Working knowledge of bank connectivity frameworks — SWIFT Service Bureau, FileAct, Host-to-Host, and API-based bank onboarding — from a functional and operational perspective.
- Strong understanding of payment message standards (ISO 20022, MT/MX) and treasury data domains (bank accounts, payments, cash positions, FX, interest rates).
- Ability to read and write SQL queries for data validation and investigation.
- Comfort working with structured data, integration concepts (APIs, file-based interfaces), and data flow documentation — sufficient to specify requirements to IT and validate delivery.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
Preferred qualifications
- Direct experience with Kyriba is strongly preferred.
- Prior involvement in a Payment Hub or Treasury Management System implementation such as Kyriba, SAP Treasury, FIS etc. is preferred
- Treasury professional certification (CTP, ACT/AMCT, or equivalent).
- Familiarity with scripting (Python or similar) for ad-hoc data tasks — useful but not essential.
- Exposure to enterprise data platforms or data governance frameworks.
Attributes for success
- Treasury-first mindset with genuine interest in the technology and data that supports it.
- Comfortable operating at both the strategic level (data and connectivity design discussions) and the tactical level (manual data replication, UAT, troubleshooting).
- Strong ability to translate between Treasury, IT, and external vendors (SWIFT providers, banks, TMS vendors) — acting as the functional bridge.
- Structured communicator with a discipline for documentation.
- Strong sense of ownership over data quality — understands that errors in treasury data (bank accounts, payment flows, FX positions) carry real financial and operational risk.
- Reliable in delivering to deadlines in a treasury environment where timeliness has direct financial implications.
- Proactive and continuous-improvement orientation.
Department overview
Trafigura's Group Treasury department serves as a centralised strategic function managing liquidity, cash, investments, and foreign exchange across the organisation's global operations. The department has evolved beyond traditional transaction processing to become a value-adding partner that supports the company's working capital-intensive business model through relationships with over one hundred banking partners. The team consolidates corporate treasury, operational treasury, and FX/interest rate risk management, while also overseeing global banking operations. Embracing digital transformation, the treasury function leverages cutting-edge technologies including blockchain for cross-border payments, APIs for enhanced cash visibility, and artificial intelligence for document processing and payment verification, enabling the team to focus on strategic initiatives that drive business value.
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