Treasury Policies & Risk Management
1 Week
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Corporate treasury functions operate in increasingly complex financial, regulatory, and technological environments. Organizations must maintain sufficient liquidity while managing market volatility, funding pressures, banking exposures, and operational risks. Well-designed treasury policies provide the governance structure required to control these challenges consistently. This course introduces a systematic approach to drafting, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing treasury policies. Participants explore the relationship between treasury governance, internal controls, risk appetite, financial strategy, and business continuity. The program explains how policies should define responsibilities, authorized activities, exposure limits, reporting requirements, and decision rights. It also demonstrates practical methods for measuring and mitigating major financial risks. Participants examine how technology, automation, and treasury management systems strengthen monitoring and compliance. The course enables professionals to create treasury frameworks that protect financial resources and support sustainable organizational performance.
Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:
Understand the strategic purpose and structure of effective treasury policies.
Align treasury policies with corporate strategy and approved risk appetite.
Establish clear treasury responsibilities, authorities, limits, and approval procedures.
Identify and assess liquidity, market, counterparty, credit, and operational risks.
Develop practical controls for cash, funding, investment, and banking activities.
Apply appropriate techniques for managing foreign exchange and interest rate exposures.
Design treasury monitoring, reporting, escalation, and compliance processes.
Evaluate banking counterparties and establish effective exposure limits.
Strengthen treasury resilience through contingency funding and business continuity planning.
Draft an integrated treasury policy and financial risk management framework.
This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:
Corporate treasurers responsible for policies, liquidity, funding, investments, and financial risk oversight.
Treasury managers and analysts involved in daily cash, banking, and exposure management.
Finance directors and senior executives supervising treasury governance and strategic financial decisions.
Risk managers responsible for market, liquidity, credit, counterparty, and operational risks.
Financial controllers seeking stronger treasury controls, compliance, reporting, and accountability.
Internal auditors reviewing treasury processes, policy adherence, and financial risk controls.
Banking relationship managers supporting corporate financing, transactions, deposits, and risk solutions.
Accountants and financial analysts seeking practical treasury governance capabilities.
Public sector finance professionals managing institutional cash and financial exposures.
Compliance professionals overseeing regulatory and internal treasury requirements.
Defining the strategic role of treasury policies.
Aligning policies with organizational objectives and risk appetite.
Establishing treasury governance structures and reporting lines.
Clarifying roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authorities.
Designing approval levels and delegated authority matrices.
Identifying mandatory components of comprehensive treasury policies.
Integrating regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements.
Establishing policy review and amendment procedures.
Assessing common treasury governance weaknesses.
Defining organizational liquidity risk and tolerance levels.
Developing accurate cash forecasting policy requirements.
Establishing minimum liquidity reserve and buffer standards.
Setting controls for bank accounts and cash movements.
Designing cash concentration and pooling policy guidelines.
Establishing short-term and long-term funding principles.
Managing refinancing, covenant, and maturity concentration risks.
Developing contingency funding and liquidity crisis plans.
Monitoring liquidity through treasury performance indicators.
Identifying transactional, translational, and economic currency exposures.
Establishing foreign exchange risk measurement procedures.
Defining approved currencies, instruments, and exposure limits.
Evaluating natural hedging and operational mitigation techniques.
Applying forwards, swaps, and options within policy limits.
Identifying fixed and floating interest rate exposures.
Measuring interest rate sensitivity and repricing risk.
Designing interest rate hedging and approval guidelines.
Reporting market risk positions to senior management.
Evaluating bank and financial counterparty creditworthiness.
Establishing counterparty limits and concentration controls.
Defining approved investment instruments and maturity limits.
Balancing liquidity, security, yield, and diversification requirements.
Developing investment authorization and monitoring procedures.
Identifying treasury fraud and operational risk scenarios.
Strengthening payment controls and segregation of duties.
Managing system access, cybersecurity, and data integrity risks.
Establishing incident reporting and escalation procedures.
Designing preventive, detective, and corrective treasury controls.
Developing treasury risk dashboards and management reports.
Defining compliance monitoring and exception management processes.
Conducting treasury policy reviews and control assessments.
Applying stress testing and financial scenario analysis.
Integrating treasury technology and automated control monitoring.
Preparing business continuity and disaster recovery procedures.
Communicating treasury policies across relevant organizational functions.
Drafting a complete treasury policy implementation plan.
This intensive professional course is delivered over five consecutive training days through expert instruction, policy development workshops, case studies, risk assessment exercises, group discussions, control design activities, and practical implementation assignments focused on improving treasury governance and financial resilience.
The course is delivered by a senior treasury, corporate finance, and financial risk management specialist with extensive practical experience in treasury governance, liquidity management, funding, foreign exchange, interest rate risk, counterparty assessment, internal controls, policy development, banking relationships, and executive financial decision-making.
Who should attend this course? Treasury, finance, risk, audit, compliance, banking, and corporate governance professionals should attend.
Does the course include policy drafting? Yes, participants learn to design and draft comprehensive treasury policies.
Which financial risks are covered? The course covers liquidity, currency, interest rate, counterparty, credit, and operational risks.
Are treasury controls discussed? Yes, the program covers authorities, limits, approvals, monitoring, reporting, and escalation controls.
Will participants develop an implementation plan? Yes, participants prepare a practical treasury policy and risk management implementation plan.
Treasury Policies and Financial Risk Management provides a structured framework for strengthening treasury governance and financial control. Participants gain practical skills in policy development, risk assessment, limit setting, control design, and compliance monitoring. The course supports improved liquidity management, disciplined financial decisions, and stronger organizational resilience. Applied exercises enable participants to translate governance principles into practical treasury procedures. Upon completion, professionals will be prepared to develop policies that protect financial resources and support sustainable corporate performance.
Duration
1 Week
Category
Treasury & Finance
Level
Professional Level
Certificate
Included