Global Treasurer

Our client is a global packaging solutions provider offering specialized packaging solutions to leading CPG companies. With regional and global manufacturing & logistics across Europe, North America, and Asia, they combine local, customer-centric execution with the scale of a global organization. They specialize in premium and complex packaging solutions for leading global brands.

The Global Treasurer is a newly created position within a high growth, established organization and will be responsible for optimizing the company’s global liquidity, capital structure, banking relationships, and financial risk management. This leader ensures efficient cash utilization, strong controls, and disciplined risk management across a multi-entity, multi-currency global organization. S/he partners closely with the CFO, FP&A, external tax resources, Corporate Accounting, Legal, and Operations to support value creation, M&A, and scalable growth—particularly in a private-equity-owned and fast past packaging services environment. In addition, they will possess a broad knowledge of all accounting, financial, information systems, and business principles. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on contributor, leader, and partner to the executive team. This role will report directly to the CFO

Key Position Responsibilities

• Be a key member of the Finance and Accounting (F&A) team, partnering with the business teams to deliver both top and bottom-line growth and value creation.
• Own daily global cash positioning and visibility across regions and entities, liquidity planning, and short-term investments.
• Lead the 13-week cash forecast and develop processes to significantly improve forecast accuracy.
• Assess and establish cash pooling, intercompany funding, hedging and cash strategies to optimize cash and global effective tax rate while maintaining compliance.
• Manage global banking relationships across all regions; negotiate fees, credit terms, and services.
• Oversee credit facilities (revolver, term loans, ABL, DDTL), covenant compliance, reporting, and lender communications. Lead letters of credit, guarantees, and surety programs.
• Lead the legal entity restructuring program to optimize cash and tax and enable significant business process and go-to-market simplification.
• Partner with the BU F&A team to assess customer and vendor terms, entity structuring, and supply-financing options to improve the company’s cash conversion cycle.
• Partner with external tax to design and maintain arm’s-length transfer pricing policies related to intercompany loans and other services ensuring compliance with local regulations.
• Support acquisitions, divestitures, and integrations (bank accounts, cash pooling, controls). Lead treasury workstreams in carve-outs and post-merger integration.
• Support tax audits and inquiries related to treasury-related transfer pricing and intercompany transactions.
• Own treasury governance, ensuring transparency, accountability, and disciplined financial and enterprise risk management.
• Design, implement, and maintain global treasury controls policies and procedures. Ensure a robust global treasury control environment across all BU and legal entities, regions, and banking partners.
• Oversee payment controls, segregation of duties, treasury DOA, and approval hierarchies, and fraud prevention programs. Ensure global bank account governance, including account opening/closing controls, signatory authority matrices, and periodic access reviews.
• As a key member of the F&A, I contribute to building and developing a high-performing finance team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and curiosity to make a difference in the business. Provide mentorship and professional development opportunities for the F&A teams across all Global BU.

Professional & Personal Qualifications

• Must possess high ethical standards (integrity, transparency, and trust).
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field. MBA/master's degree a plus.
• Professional certifications strongly preferred: CTP (Certified Treasury Professional) and/or CFA a plus.
• 10+ years of progressive treasury, corporate finance, or financial leadership experience in a global, multi-entity, multi-currency organization.
• Demonstrated expertise in global cash management, liquidity planning, and 13-week cash forecasting, with a track record of improving forecast accuracy.
• Broad experience managing complex capital structures, including revolvers, term loans, ABL, DDTL facilities, covenant compliance, and lender communications.
• Strong working knowledge of cash pooling (physical and notional), intercompany funding, cash repatriation, and hedging strategies.
• Hands-on experience partnering with Tax to design and support arm’s-length transfer pricing policies related to intercompany loans, treasury services, and guarantees, in compliance with local regulations.
• Experience supporting and leading treasury workstreams for M&A, carve-outs, integrations, and legal entity restructurings.
• Strong understanding of treasury governance, internal controls, and risk management, including a demonstrated ability to design and enforce global treasury policies, payment controls, bank account governance, and fraud prevention frameworks.
• Broad knowledge of accounting, financial systems, and business operations, with the ability to partner effectively across Finance, Tax, Legal, Operations, and executive leadership.
• Hands-on, execution-oriented leader with strong judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, change-driven environment.