About the Company
C.A.T. North America is a Canadian, family-owned transportation group founded in 1978. With more than 1,600 trucks, 4,300 trailers, 25 terminals and 2,100 employees across Canada, the United States and Mexico, C.A.T. is one of the leading transportation and logistics providers in North America, covering trucking, brokerage, logistics, leasing and real estate.
About the Role
The Senior Treasury Specialist oversees day-to-day treasury operations, including cash management and liquidity, and partners with the Treasury Director on banking activities, financial risk management and reporting. The role is also responsible for reviewing, documenting, tracking and recording all loans and related documents and calculations for all companies in the C.A.T. group of companies, and ensures efficient cash-flow management and compliance with company policies and financial regulations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage daily cash operations and monitor liquidity
- Own treasury and cash-flow analysis and dashboards, presenting insights and recommendations to the Treasury Director
- Consolidate cash requirements for all loans
- Understand and manage the various bank loans held by the C.A.T. group of companies
- Prepare and update the loan balance report, ensuring it ties to the general ledger
- Create a consolidated payment schedule for the loans held by each company, including asset financing
- Communicate with creditors to collect all required information and validate that contracts accurately reflect what was agreed upon
- Manage, track and clear intercompany loans across companies on a monthly basis
- Calculate monthly intercompany interest on outstanding loan balances
- Maintain and update the FX exposure tracker, ensuring all forecasted and actual foreign currency cash flows are accurately captured, reconciled and reported on a timely basis
- Calculate and monitor net FX positions across currencies, identifying exposures, supporting hedging requirements and analyzing FX impacts on cash flow and P&L
- Manage day-to-day hedging activities and recommend hedging strategies
- Track treasury products used by all companies
- Lead treasury projects, including AI initiatives, new system implementations and change management
- Collaborate with Controllers and Finance teams to improve data quality and challenge key assumptions
- Participate in special projects and ad hoc requests
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business Administration
- Five or more years of experience in a position related to treasury, investing or accounting
- Professional designation (CPA, CTP) is considered an asset
- Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced team environment and adapt quickly to changing priorities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and French
- Ability to think and work independently and be proactive in using internal and external resources to achieve results
- High proficiency with accounting and information management software, particularly Excel
- Project management experience, including new implementations and change management
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority
- Comfortable with technology, with experience working on AI projects
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Health and wellness program.
- Work-life balance.
- Group insurance and retirement plan with company contributions.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP).
- A positive work environment focused on knowledge sharing and recognizing individual and team achievements.
