Corporate treasurer career

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Corporate treasurers control financial activities for an organisation like planning, purchasing and investments.

Corporate treasurers control financial activities for an organisation like planning, purchasing and investments.

What would you do as a Corporate treasurer?

Corporate treasurers

  • usually work regular business hours
  • usually work in offices
  • need to solve problems, communicate well and make decisions

Tasks

  • manage financial activities for organisations
  • oversee cash flow and account management
  • review and manage financial risks
  • create budgets, financial reports and forecasts
  • make decisions on investments and spending
  • check and report on financial trends
  • give financial advice to organisations
  • manage finance teams and staff
  • make sure legal rules are followed
  • approve spending and resource use

How can you become a Corporate treasurer?

You need a qualification and experience to become a corporate treasurer.

You need

  • a relevant tertiary qualification in accounting, banking and finance or similar area
  • experience in similar work

You may need

  • to be a chartered accountant with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)

If you're in school

You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.

Studying this at the University of Waikato

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Study a Finance major in our Bachelor of Business, or our Bachelor of Banking, Finance and Technology, to learn how organisations manage their cash, funding and financial risk. You'll build the financial analysis and modelling skills treasury teams rely on. Like all our undergraduate degrees, both include work-integrated learning.

If you already have a degree, our Master of Applied Finance gives you a practical route into corporate finance, covering valuation, financing and investment decisions.

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