The Senior Treasury Analyst will be responsible for managing bank guarantees, insurance guarantees, and surety bonds across the LATAM region, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations while optimizing the company’s credit capacity and minimizing collateral requirements.
The role will also support regional cash management activities, liquidity planning, and foreign exchange operations while maintaining strong relationships with banks, insurance providers, and internal stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
1. Guarantees & Surety Management (Primary Focus)
• Manage the full lifecycle of guarantees, including issuance, amendments, renewals, reductions, and cancellations of bank guarantees, insurance guarantees, and surety bonds across LATAM countries.
• Review guarantees wording and contractual obligations, ensuring alignment with company policies and minimizing financial and legal risk exposure.
• Provide recommendations for alternative guarantee structures (insurance vs bank guarantee vs standby instruments) to optimize cost, credit utilization, and collateral requirements.
• Coordinate with banks, insurance companies, and brokers to establish and maintain guarantee facilities and credit lines.
• Support the negotiation of guarantee terms to reduce costs, improve conditions, and avoid or minimize cash collateral requirements.
• Monitor guarantee utilization levels and facility limits, ensuring sufficient availability to support ongoing business operations and new contracts.
• Maintain a guarantee tracking system/database to monitor expiration dates, renewals, and contractual obligations.
• Work closely with legal, procurement, and commercial teams to review contract clauses related to financial guarantees, performance bonds, advance payment bonds, and retention guarantees.
• Ensure timely release or reduction of guarantees when contractual obligations are fulfilled.
• Support risk assessments related to guarantees, including country risk, counterparty risk, and insurer/bank exposure.
• Assist in building and maintaining strategic relationships with financial institutions and insurers across the LATAM region.
Cash Management & Treasury Operations
• Monitor daily cash balances across LATAM bank accounts, ensuring adequate liquidity and compliance with corporate treasury policies.
• Support regional liquidity planning and cash positioning, including funding requirements between accounts.
• Execute manual payments through banking platforms, including payments related to taxes, payroll, and judicial obligations.
• Maintain accurate cash forecasting and treasury reporting in the IT2 Treasury Management System.
• Support the execution and documentation of foreign exchange (FX) transactions required for LATAM operations.
• Monitor FX exposure and support compliance with internal treasury policies and local regulatory requirements.
• Assist in maintaining bank account documentation, including the management and reporting of authorized bank account signatories.
• Ensure proper documentation and reconciliation of treasury transactions, addressing any discrepancies or queries.
• Support internal and external audits related to treasury activities.
Stakeholder Management
• Collaborate closely with Legal, Finance, Tax, and Commercial teams to ensure proper structuring of guarantees and financial obligations within contracts.
• Support on maintain effective relationships with banks, insurers, and brokers to support regional treasury operations.
• Act as a key contact for guarantee-related matters within the organization.
Requirements
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
Professional Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a corporate treasury environment, with exposure to bank guarantees, surety bonds, or insurance guarantees.
• Experience working with LATAM treasury operations is highly desirable.
Technical Knowledge
• Solid knowledge of bank guarantees, insurance guarantees, and surety bonds.
• Understanding of foreign exchange (FX) operations and compliance requirements.
• Experience using Treasury Management Systems (preferably IT2).
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
Skills & Competencies
• Strong analytical and financial problem-solving skills.
• Ability to review contractual financial terms and assess risk exposure.
• Strong negotiation skills when dealing with banks, insurers, and brokers.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to work under time-sensitive conditions and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Languages
• Advanced English (required).
• Intermediate Spanish (desirable).
Candidatos da cidade de São Paulo - SP, residir 24 KM do escritório da Unisys localizado na (zona sul - ponte João Dias), terá ir presencial 3 vezes na semana presencial.