Where a corporate treasurer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a corporate treasurer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Corporate treasurers determine and oversee the financial strategic policies of a company or organisation. They use cash management techniques like account organisation, cash flow monitoring, liquidity planning and control, risk management including currency and commodity risks and maintain close connection with banks and rating agencies.
Also known as treasury analyst, corporate treasury officer, company treasurer, corporate treasury controller, corporate financial officer and treasurer, group treasurer, corporate treasury manager, foreign currency treasurer.
Managers 40 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: financial controller, 46%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A corporate treasurer needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- treasury management system business, administration and law
- liquidity management business, administration and law
- evaluate budgets management skills
- financial department processes business, administration and law
- investment analysis business, administration and law
- plan medium to long term objectives management skills
- financial analysis business, administration and law
- review investment portfolios communication, collaboration and creativity
- financial forecasting business, administration and law
- interpret financial statements information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a corporate treasurer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- financial manager 66% covered · difficulty 37
- financial risk manager 54% covered · difficulty 48.1
- bank treasurer 52% covered · difficulty 49.6
- accounting analyst 48% covered · difficulty 52.5
- cost analyst 43% covered · difficulty 58.2
- accountant 41% covered · difficulty 59.2
- financial auditor 39% covered · difficulty 61.3
- credit analyst 37% covered · difficulty 62.6
- financial analyst 30% covered · difficulty 68.2
- business valuer 26% covered · difficulty 71.2
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Corporate treasurer is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a corporate treasurer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.