Corporate Treasurer

A Corporate Treasurer manages an organisation's cash flow, liquidity, and financial risk exposure across banking, investment, and debt facilities. Working within corporate finance teams, they oversee short and long-term funding strategies, monitor cash positions across multiple accounts and entities, and ensure compliance with banking covenants and regulatory requirements. The role involves daily oversight of payments, receivables, banking relationships, and treasury systems to optimise working capital and minimise financial risk.

Monitor daily cash positions across bank accounts and forecast cash flow requirements using treasury management systems. Arrange and manage banking facilities including overdrafts, revolving credit facilities, and loan agreements with financial institutions. Execute foreign exchange transactions and hedge currency exposure using spot, forward, and derivative instruments. Manage investment of surplus cash in money market instruments, term deposits, and fixed-income securities within Board-approved limits. Prepare and lodge financial covenants reports to lenders to demonstrate compliance with debt facility terms. Oversee debt restructuring and refinancing activities including negotiation of terms with banks and rating agencies. Reconcile bank statements and manage intercompany settlements between subsidiary entities. Implement and monitor counterparty credit limits and collateral management for banking and derivative relationships.

The standard entry pathway requires a bachelor degree or higher (ABS Skill Level 1). Specific qualification requirements vary by employer and state. Some employers may accept equivalent experience. Check yourcareer.gov.au for available courses and dewr.gov.au/skills-reform/free-tafe for subsidised training options.

The work is highly reactive and risk-averse: one mistake with a foreign exchange hedge or covenant breach can cost hundreds of thousands. You need continuous upskilling in complex financial instruments and regulations, and if interest rates spike or markets crash, you're managing crises under pressure with little room for error.

In practice, work concentrates in CBD financial districts and is rarely remote due to need for quick decision-making and banking relationships. Many positions require relocation to a capital city.

Published for ANZSCO unit group 2212, the wider group this job sits in, not for this job on its own.

This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.

Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.

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• ABS OSCA 2024, occupation definition and task statements
• ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
• ABS, 2021 Census of Population and Housing based on usual place of residence (Custom Report). OSCA Experimental Estimates.

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Last updated: 30 October 2026