Senior Treasury Analyst

Cognex is the world’s leading provider of vision systems, software, sensors, and industrial barcode readers used in manufacturing automation. Cognex vision helps companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high-quality products at an affordable price. Typical applications for machine vision include detecting defects, monitoring production lines, guiding assembly robots, and tracking, sorting, and identifying parts.

Cognex serves an international customer base from offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and through a global network of integration and distribution partners. The company is headquartered close to Boston in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Cognex is a financially strong international company with a culture that maintains the fast-paced, creative environment of a startup. Its employees, proudly called “Cognoids,” take their work seriously, but don't take themselves seriously. Their ‘Work Hard, Play Hard, Move Fast’ culture recognizes employees for their innovation, perseverance & hard work in a fun & rewarding environment. Cognex values in-person team collaboration, whilst offering remote workplace flexibility up to two days a week depending on the role.

We are working on a hybrid schedule, 3 days in the office.

The Senior Treasury Analyst, based in our Europe Shared Service Center in Cork Ireland, will play a key role in overseeing daily cash operations, bank account management, cash forecasting, foreign exchange, and more. This position will report to the Principal Accounting Officer but take daily directions from the Senior Treasury Manager based in the company’s US corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts.

Essential Functions:

• Cash Management: Manage global cash operations by overseeing daily cash disbursements, receipts, and intercompany flow of funds, and monitor daily cash positions across multiple bank accounts to ensure optimal liquidity and cash flow efficiency.
• Cash Forecasting: Proactively engage with key business areas to accurately forecast cash inflows and outflows for liquidity needs and strategic planning.
• Bank Account Management: Manage all bank accounts, including opening and closing accounts and maintaining appropriate access rights, and work with our banking partners to optimize both account costs and returns on operating cash.
• FX Hedging: Execute current monthly FX balance sheet hedging program, including entering and accounting for FX hedges, and expand the FX hedging program to address other potential exposures.
• Accounting Close: Ensure the accurate and timely monthly accounting close related to treasury activities, including preparing journal entries for cash, investments, and FX hedges, as well as timely account reconciliations.
• Reporting: Prepare month/quarter/year-end reporting related to treasury activities, including KPIs, footnotes for SEC filings, and presentations for Senior Management and the Audit Committee.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with Treasury policies, procedures, and controls, and engage with internal and external auditors on inquiries and requests, while making suggestions for process improvements.
• Capital Structure: Contribute to the development and execution of the corporate capital structure, including the establishment of debt facilities such as supply chain financing, revolving credit facilities, or other financing alternatives.
• Special Projects: Represent Treasury in high-impact projects related to global expansion, M&A activities, corporate credit card programs, treasury automation, insurance renewals, and other special projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong attention to detail to produce consistent, high-quality results and meet deadlines
• Self-motivated individual with ability to multitask in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities with minimal direction
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work productively in a cross-functional team environment to effectively communicate, collaborate, and influence across all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated initiative to drive continuous process improvement
• Demonstrated high ethical standards and commitment to compliance and transparency
• Flexibility to work with global business partners across Americas, Europe, and Asia, including occasional early morning or evening calls
• Expectation to collaborate in-person at Europe Shared Services Center a minimum of three days a week

Minimum education and work experience required:

• B.S. degree in Finance-related discipline
• 3+ years treasury experience at multinational corporation with complex banking structure and foreign currency transactions|
• Strong knowledge of capital markets, financing solutions, and risk management
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Experience with SAP, Bloomberg, and various banking portals a plus
• Strong accounting skills a plus