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As the Director of Corporate Treasury at Okta, you will be a cornerstone of our Global Finance organization. Reporting directly to the Treasurer, you will oversee our capital structure, liquidity management, and financial risk mitigation strategies. This is a high-visibility leadership role where you will manage a global balance sheet while leading a critical digital transformation through the implementation of Kyriba.
Key Responsibilities
Investment Management & Capital Allocation
- Portfolio Management: Oversee the company’s investment portfolio, ensuring adherence to the Corporate Investment Policy while optimizing yield within risk parameters.
- Capital Allocation Modeling: Develop sophisticated financial models to evaluate capital allocation strategies, including share buybacks, debt repayment, M&A funding, repatriation, and internal R&D investment.
- Strategy Benchmarking: Monitor market trends and peer benchmarks to advise the Treasurer and CFO on optimal capital structure and return-of-capital frameworks.
Cash & Liquidity Management
- Global Liquidity: Direct global cash positioning, forecasting, and liquidity planning to ensure optimal funding for operations and M&A activity.
- SaaS Cash Conversion: Optimize the "Cash Conversion Cycle," managing the nuances of high-volume recurring billing and deferred revenue impacts on liquidity.
- Banking Relations: Oversee global banking relationships and the administration of bank accounts, investment accounts and portals.
Strategic Project Leadership (Kyriba Implementation)
- Functional Project Ownership: Serve as the primary Business Lead for the global rollout of Kyriba, defining future-state treasury workflows and ensuring the system meets business objectives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the project manager, the technology team, cross functional leaders, banks, and external consultants to ensure technical configurations (API, Host-to-Host, ERP integrations) align with operational requirements.
- Requirement Translation: Distill complex treasury needs—such as multi-currency pooling—into clear functional specifications.
- UAT & Training: Validate UAT test cases, scripts and plans. Conduct UAT and provide sign-off. Ensure full adoption by broader, cross-functional finance teams through proper training and hypercare.
Capital Markets, Strategic Support & Risk Management
- Capital Markets: Partner with the Treasurer to execute capital market transactions, including debt issuances and share buyback programs.
- Hedging Strategies: Develop and execute hedging strategies to mitigate foreign exchange (FX) risk and interest rate exposure.
- Strategic Support: Treasury due diligence, acquisition integration and support of business expansion/new business models.
- Insurance Programs: Lead the annual renewals of our insurance programs with our insurance broker and cross functional constituents.
- Counterparty Risk: Monitor and ensure the company is appropriately managing counter party risks.
Team Leadership & Operations
- Mentorship: Mentor and lead a team of two, fostering a culture of precision, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Operational Rigor: Manage the day-to-day treasury operations while leading high-impact strategic projects.
- Controls: Maintain rigorous internal controls and SOX documentation for all treasury-related activities.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive treasury experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role within a public, high-growth technology or SaaS company.
- Technical Expertise: Proven ability to manage large-scale investment portfolios and build complex capital allocation models, while having the ability to present with executive level precision.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics. MBA, CFA, or CTP preferred.
- System Expertise: Experience leading a full-lifecycle implementation of a Tier-1 TMS (Kyriba preferred).
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