Certificate in Treasury and Cash Management
1 Week
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Treasury and cash management have become essential functions for organizations operating in uncertain and rapidly changing financial markets. Effective treasury operations ensure sufficient liquidity while controlling financial costs, risks, and operational exposures. This professional program introduces the principles, tools, and practices required to manage corporate cash resources efficiently. Participants learn how to prepare reliable cash forecasts and align liquidity requirements with business priorities. The course explains banking structures, payment systems, collection processes, financing instruments, and short-term investment alternatives. It provides practical guidance for establishing treasury policies, controls, authorities, and performance measures. Participants also explore financial risk management techniques for protecting cash flows and preserving organizational value. Case studies and applied exercises enable participants to translate financial concepts into effective treasury decisions. The program supports professionals seeking recognized knowledge in corporate treasury, liquidity management, and financial control.
Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:
Understand the strategic role of treasury and cash management within modern organizations.
Prepare accurate short-term and medium-term cash flow forecasts.
Evaluate corporate liquidity requirements and identify potential funding gaps.
Optimize working capital through effective receivables, payables, and inventory management.
Assess banking services, account structures, payment methods, and collection solutions.
Compare short-term borrowing instruments and surplus cash investment alternatives.
Identify and manage foreign exchange, interest rate, credit, and liquidity risks.
Develop treasury policies, internal controls, authorization limits, and governance procedures.
Apply treasury technology, dashboards, and financial analytics to improve decision-making.
Measure treasury performance using relevant financial and operational indicators.
This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:
Corporate treasurers responsible for liquidity, funding, banking, and financial risk management.
Treasury analysts supporting cash forecasting, payments, investments, reporting, and daily financial operations.
Finance managers overseeing corporate finance, working capital, budgeting, and financial performance.
Cash managers responsible for collections, disbursements, account balances, and liquidity optimization.
Accountants seeking practical knowledge of treasury processes, controls, reconciliations, and banking transactions.
Financial controllers supervising governance, compliance, reporting accuracy, and organizational financial controls.
Banking professionals providing cash management, transaction banking, credit, and treasury solutions.
Risk managers addressing market, credit, liquidity, operational, and counterparty exposures.
Public sector professionals managing institutional cash resources, funding requirements, and financial accountability.
Business owners and executives seeking stronger control over cash flow and financial resilience.
Understanding treasury functions, responsibilities, structures, and strategic organizational value.
Distinguishing treasury management from accounting and broader corporate finance activities.
Examining centralized, decentralized, and regional treasury operating models.
Aligning treasury objectives with corporate strategy and financial priorities.
Understanding the treasury operating cycle and key stakeholder relationships.
Assessing liquidity, solvency, profitability, and financial resilience requirements.
Defining treasury governance, authority levels, responsibilities, and reporting structures.
Identifying essential treasury competencies, technologies, processes, and performance indicators.
Reviewing current trends affecting global treasury and cash management.
Understanding direct and indirect cash flow forecasting methodologies.
Identifying operating, investing, and financing cash flow components.
Developing daily, weekly, monthly, and rolling cash forecasts.
Collecting reliable forecasting data from organizational business units.
Evaluating forecast assumptions, scenarios, sensitivities, and potential variances.
Calculating minimum operating cash and liquidity reserve requirements.
Identifying cash surpluses, deficits, timing mismatches, and funding gaps.
Improving forecast accuracy through variance analysis and corrective actions.
Creating liquidity dashboards for timely management decision-making.
Understanding working capital drivers and their impact on liquidity.
Improving receivables collection processes and customer payment performance.
Optimizing supplier payment timing without damaging commercial relationships.
Managing inventory levels to release cash and reduce financing requirements.
Calculating cash conversion cycles and working capital performance indicators.
Evaluating bank account structures and rationalization opportunities.
Understanding payment instruments, collection channels, and settlement systems.
Managing bank reconciliations, value dates, balances, and transaction charges.
Strengthening banking relationships through structured reviews and service assessments.
Assessing short-term financing needs and available borrowing instruments.
Comparing overdrafts, credit facilities, commercial paper, and trade financing.
Evaluating funding costs, terms, covenants, security, and refinancing exposure.
Establishing investment objectives for surplus corporate cash.
Comparing deposits, money market instruments, and low-risk investment alternatives.
Identifying foreign exchange, interest rate, credit, and liquidity risks.
Understanding hedging instruments, including forwards, swaps, and options.
Establishing counterparty limits and monitoring credit exposure.
Balancing financial returns, liquidity availability, and capital preservation.
Developing comprehensive treasury policies and standard operating procedures.
Establishing segregation of duties and transaction authorization controls.
Preventing treasury fraud through monitoring, verification, and access management.
Understanding treasury compliance, documentation, audit, and regulatory requirements.
Evaluating treasury management systems and banking integration solutions.
Applying automation to payments, forecasting, reconciliation, and reporting processes.
Designing treasury dashboards and executive management reports.
Selecting key performance indicators for treasury efficiency and effectiveness.
Creating an actionable treasury improvement and implementation plan.
This intensive professional certificate program is delivered over five consecutive training days, with each day combining expert instruction, facilitated discussions, practical exercises, financial calculations, case studies, and applied treasury scenarios to ensure effective knowledge transfer and workplace application.
The program is delivered by an experienced treasury and corporate finance professional with extensive expertise in cash management, liquidity forecasting, working capital optimization, banking operations, financial risk management, treasury governance, and professional training, supported by practical experience in advising organizations and implementing effective treasury frameworks.
Who should attend this treasury certificate program? It is designed for treasury, finance, accounting, banking, risk, and management professionals.
Does the course require previous treasury experience? Previous experience is helpful but not mandatory because the program develops knowledge progressively.
What practical skills will participants develop? Participants will practice cash forecasting, liquidity planning, working capital analysis, financing, investment, and risk management.
Does the program cover treasury technology? Yes, it examines treasury systems, automation, banking integration, dashboards, and financial analytics.
Will participants receive a certificate? Participants who complete the program requirements will receive a professional certificate of attendance.
The Certificate in Treasury and Cash Management provides professionals with practical capabilities for managing liquidity, funding, banking, and financial risks. It combines strategic financial knowledge with applied tools that can be implemented immediately within the workplace. Participants gain greater confidence in cash forecasting, working capital optimization, financing decisions, and treasury governance. The program supports stronger financial control, operational efficiency, organizational resilience, and informed executive decision-making. Completing this course represents an important step toward professional excellence in corporate treasury and cash management.
Duration
1 Week
Category
Training & Development
Level
Professional Level
Certificate
Included