Treasury Capital Analyst

Main purpose

Support the day-to-day execution, monitoring and reporting of the Group's Treasury Capital activities, covering secured and unsecured financing, liquidity reporting, cash management and in-house banking. Improve treasury operations through automation, using AI tools, scripting and low-code solutions to reduce manual effort, improve data quality and generate better insights. Suited to a graduate or early-career professional from a finance, treasury or engineering background who wants to build deep treasury expertise with a visible technical impact.

Key responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operation of secured and unsecured loans in line with financing agreements and internal policies, including loan drawdowns, repayments and deposit bookings with banks, facility agents and internal teams.
• Allocate funding costs and income to transactions and cost centres, and reconcile cash flows with third-party and internal records while maintaining documentation trails.
• Track and report financing metrics (interest margins, facility utilisation, maturity profiles, cost of capital), and benchmark facility terms and costs against internal targets and market conditions.
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly liquidity reports, including stress testing and early warning indicators, and support treasury P&L reporting and actual vs forecast variance analysis.
• Monitor daily global cash positioning, in-house banking, surplus cash placements and money market instruments within approved risk guidelines, and support governance of internal lending, intercompany funding and securitised assets.
• Automate manual treasury processes (reconciliations, report production, data collection, bank and facility document processing) using Python, SQL, or similar tools, and build and maintain dashboards and data pipelines (e.g. Power BI) for liquidity and financing metrics.
• Apply AI and Large Language Model (LLM) tools to practical use cases such as extracting data from facility agreements and bank statements, drafting report commentary and validating data, following the Group's controls, data security and approved-AI-tools policies, and testing automated outputs.
• Contribute to treasury projects (system upgrades, reporting automation, process enhancements) with Treasury Technology, IT and Data teams on Treasury Management System (TMS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and bank connectivity, track tasks, raise risks with the team lead, and produce user guides, training materials and standard operating procedures.

Required qualifications

• 0-3 years of experience in treasury, finance, banking, consulting, data/analytics, or a technical field (internships and graduate programmes count)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for working with and analysing financial data
• Hands-on experience with at least one of Python, SQL, VBA, Power BI, or a strong willingness to build these skills
• Practical example of using AI or automation tools to solve a real problem, from work, studies, or personal projects
• University degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related subject
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to treasury, corporate finance, trade finance, or capital markets
• Exposure to Cash Management
• Exposure to Intercompany Lending (In-house Banking)
• Familiarity with TMS such as Kyriba, IT2, Quantum, or SAP Treasury
• Familiarity with ERP systems
• Progress towards CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), ACT (Association of Corporate Treasurers), or a similar professional qualification
• Exposure to the commodities sector, structured financing, or securitisation vehicles

Attributes for success

• Communication: Explains technical work clearly to non-technical colleagues and engages confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Curiosity: Learns quickly and shows genuine interest in both treasury and technology.
• Analytical thinking: Interprets complex financial data and turns it into actionable insights.
• Attention to detail: Works with precision on data, controls, compliance and reporting, and understands the risks of automating financial processes.
• Prioritisation: Manages multiple workstreams and tight deadlines in parallel while staying focused on business outcomes.
• Initiative: Anticipates challenges, proposes practical solutions and improves processes in a dynamic treasury environment.
• Adaptability: Grasps complex financing concepts, systems and business models quickly, and adapts to changing business needs and regulation.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across Treasury, IT, Data and Finance teams.

Department overview

Trafigura's Group Treasury is a centralised strategic function managing liquidity, cash, investments and foreign exchange across the Group's global operations. It supports a working-capital-intensive business through relationships with over one hundred banking partners. The team covers Treasury Capital, Treasury Technology and Payments, and FX and interest rate risk management, and oversees global banking operations. It is expanding its use of automation and AI, alongside blockchain for cross-border payments, APIs for cash visibility and AI for document processing and payment verification, and this role will play a key part in that.

Treasury Capital manages the Group's secured and unsecured debt portfolios, ensuring compliance with financing agreements and oversight of capital management and cost of funding. The team optimises capital velocity to support working capital and operational liquidity across global entities, monitors liquidity positions, and administers intercompany and intracompany funding through an in-house banking framework.

Equal opportunity employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce! We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.