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Treasury Specialist

Northwestern Mutual · Milwaukee, WI · Full time

Posted Sep 3, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a process improvement you made that reduced errors or saved time.

What they are checking: Whether they look for better ways to work, which the posting asks them to lead.

How do you explain a payment problem to a business partner who does not know Treasury?

What they are checking: Whether they can work cross-functionally and make money movement clear to others.

Tell me about a time you were the backup for a task and had to step in on short notice.

What they are checking: Whether they can serve as a reliable backup, which the job description names.

What would you do

You have a bank reconciliation item that has been open for three weeks. How do you work it?

What they are checking: Whether they can trace open items through systems and business areas until they are resolved.

A client says their payment never arrived, but your system shows it went out. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they can investigate complex client payment issues calmly and thoroughly.

You get an urgent wire request by email from an executive asking to skip the usual approval. What do you do?

What they are checking: Whether they recognize fraud red flags and hold to controls even under pressure.

About the work

Walk me through how you verify a wire transfer before it is released.

What they are checking: Whether they follow strong controls on money movement, where one mistake can be costly.

What is the difference between a wire and an ACH payment, and when would you use each?

What they are checking: Whether they know the basic payment rails the job runs on every day.

How do you analyze bank fees, and what might you find that could save money?

What they are checking: Whether they understand bank fee structures well enough to give real insights.

What kind of data would you pull together to support liquidity reporting?

What they are checking: Whether they understand what goes into liquidity and leverage reporting and why it matters.

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The full job description

As published by Northwestern Mutual.

About the Job: The Treasury Specialist performs as a technical resource, subject matter expert and back up for assigned Treasury activities. Supports the money movement and Treasury activities throughout the organization. Assists in the collection of financial data needed for the creation of valuable and insightful liquidity and leverage reporting. W orks cross functionally to understand money movement and improve operations. What You'll Do: • Ensures accurate and timely execution of wire transfer and ACH transactions. Can resolve business area inquiries ad issues with payments. Can solve general system issues. • Responds to and investigates bank reconciliation open items. Develops and maintains an understanding of the business transactions and related accounting performed by administration and cash/client fund systems (e.g., cash disbursement system). Maintains working knowledge of the financial reconciliation system. • Investigates and resolves complex client payment issues. • Identifies potential enhancements to improve accuracy and efficiency and leads or assists in efforts to implement changes. Provides guidance to other division staff and the operating areas performing Treasury, control, and servicing activities. • Demonstrates a deep understanding of bank fees used to support company activity. Provides insights to bank fees and collaborates with the cash manager on setting bank balances and facilitate data needs for Treasurer to maintain bank fee expenses. • Understand and documents how data flows between systems and be able to bring it together in a comprehensive view. • Responsible for gathering, cleaning, and analyzing data using standard tools like Excel and data visualization software, to generate insights and support informed decision-making within the organization, while learning advanced analytical techniques under guidance from senior team members • Assists in the preparation of various Treasury dashboards. What Experience You'll Bring: • Requires a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or business administration. • 1-2 years of experience in corporate treasury, banking, or investment operations. • Knowledge of banking and cash management principals, payment channels, treasury tools and banking regulations. • Proficient in Microsoft Office. • Strong analytical skills, and detailed oriented. • Team player motivated to provide great customer service to internal and external customers. • Strong time management, decision making, interpersonal, research, and communication skills. • Self-initiative on issue handling, trouble shooting, and problem solving to resolve time sensitive matter. • Demonstrated flexibility to adjust to changing business needs by effectively managing and prioritizing concurrent assignments. • Ability to deliver informative, well-organized documentation. Skills: • Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality. • Customer Centricity: Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions, systems, processes, and services that support enterprise strategy, impact critical business outcomes, and drive organizational success. • Customer Service Mindset: Anticipates customer needs and applies understanding of customer needs or perspectives to solve problems and drive outcomes as the basis for decision making. Leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions. • Customer Support: Captures customer information for inquiry and analysis in an organized, clear, and consistent manner; leverages knowledge of trends affecting customer to help them make informed decisions and communicates with the customer and the field. Uses customer intelligence to solve problems, demonstrate patience and understanding, ensure customer satisfaction by knowing the customer and audience and resolve customer complaints efficiently. • Process Improvement: Assesses the current processes and impact to analyze, design, and manage potential improvement areas for more efficient, effective workflow. #LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite Compensation Range: Pay Range - Start: $52,720.00 Pay Range - End: $79,080.00 Geographic Specific Pay Structure: Structure 110: $58,000.00 USD - $87,000.00 USD Structure 115: $60,640.00 USD - $90,960.00 USD We believe in fairness and transparency. It’s why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you’re living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more. Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now! Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.

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