Rohit Sahu
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic Treasury Manager with over 11 years of experience in Treasury and Finance Operations, adept at managing a team of 15+ members and overseeing global operations for the Treasury Tower Center of Excellence (CoE). Proven track record in driving Treasury Transformation, implementing continuous improvements, and standardizing processes to enhance efficiency. Renowned for exceptional accuracy, attention to detail, solid decision-making skills, and strong critical thinking abilities.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager Treasury – Global Treasury Tower CoE
Caterpillar
Bangalore
01.2024 - Current
- Executed Global Finance strategy by building an Enterprise Center of Excellence in Bangalore
- Created the vision and led the change and realignment of processes into the Treasury Tower CoE
- Leading the team and onboarded 10+ well qualified employees to enable operational excellence within the team
- Overseeing global treasury payment processing and managing month-end closing for various regions, including North America, EAME, APD, and Cat Financial
- Additionally, handling trade confirmations and settlements for FX, derivatives, and commodities, managing funding to CAT Financial, and performing daily prior day Quantum reconciliations for global regions
- Led 30+ transitions throughout the year, successfully establishing the Treasury Tower Operations CoE
- Achieved on-time go-lives for all transitions, while improving processes and managing multiple transitions and supporting go-live processes for global regions
- Established over 40 Gold Standard DTPs during the transition
- Completed 10+ continuous improvement projects to reduce complexity, eliminated manual work through digital capabilities, saving over 1000 hours and improving process efficiency
- Enabled global Treasury teams and business partners to leverage the CoE’s capabilities through standardization and simplification
- Core team for supporting Quantum TMS upgrade project in planning, unit testing, UAT, parallel testing and go-live
- Ensuring treasury policies and procedures, SOX controls, business resumption plans, and regulatory compliance
- Achieved an Employee Experience score of 98% in the Employee Insight Survey
Cash Management Professional – Regional Treasury India/South Asia
IBM
Bangalore
09.2021 - 11.2023
- Leading the Treasury Operations to Monitor and analyse the company’s daily cash position to cover cash commitments and optimize short-term borrowing or investments, assisting in the execution of daily cash management duties
- Ensure sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements
- Assist with short- and long-term intercompany settlements and transactions
- Foreign exchange and wire transactions, maintain settlement instructions, and update FX mandates with counterparty banks
- Lead in identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies, using hedging to mitigate financial risks related to currency rates on the company's cash flows and borrowings, as applicable
- Maintain all domestic and global banking relationships
- Act as a treasury liaison with the company’s business units in setting up new banking accounts, services, and handling bank inquiries and related matters
- Assist in executing standby letters of credit, bank guarantees, performance bonds, and similar instruments
- Led the implementation of the Quantum system for Treasury Operations
- Adhere to month-end cut-off schedules for reconciliations of all cash-related accounts and month-end processes
- Provide information in connection with external and internal audits and monitor cash management activities to ensure compliance
- Lead and assist with treasury projects and initiatives
Accountant 1 – Treasury Cash Management
Neovia Logistics
Bangalore
09.2017 - 06.2021
- Daily cash reconciliation involving approximately $500 million in cash inflows and outflows each month across 150+ bank accounts with multiple currencies
- FX transaction matching and confirmation at Finastra and releasing cash settlements through bank portals
- Banking relationships: managing banking portal user access, account opening, closing, signatory changes, and resolving daily banking operations queries
- Domestic and cross-border payments, including vendors, customer refunds, IC trade payables, direct debits, discount payments, credit card, money market, and foreign exchange activities
- Cash flow forecasting: global reconciliation, updating actuals versus forecasted figures, and presenting the cash summary to management during weekly cash review calls
- Performing various activities in Kyriba, such as creating BSP rules, wire transfers, IC/external debt payments, FX trades, and required treasury reporting
- Posting journal entries, reviewing bank ledgers and being responsible for month/quarter/year-end closing activities, including Blackline reports, exchange rate updates from Reuters, IC loan/interest reporting, etc
Treasury Analyst – Treasury Operations
Juniper Networks (Adecco Payroll)
Bangalore
11.2016 - 05.2017
- Processes daily wires for AP, payroll, and Treasury
- Oversees bank account maintenance and correspondence, including opening and closing bank accounts, managing account signatories, and team user entitlements
- Manages and executes worldwide time deposit investments
- Provides administrative support for documentation routing for signatures, KYC documentation, scanning and mailing, maintaining Treasury records, and file keeping
- Assists with internal reports related to the company’s FX, cash, and banking matters
- Responsible for reviews and processes for SOX (SOX 430) controls
Senior Executive – Treasury Operations
Wipro (Sapthaang Payroll)
Bangalore
03.2016 - 11.2016
- Acted as the primary liaison with banks for banking services, serving as the overall contact for bank communication regarding the addition or reduction of services and all other account activities
- Managed bank account maintenance and correspondence, including opening and closing bank accounts, managing account signatories, and team user entitlements
- Prepared daily cash inflows and outflows
- Managed fund transfers across various banks, including formal instructions, bank charges, and other deductions, and set up Standing Order Transfers with various banks
- Acquired new corporate accounts and managed them effectively
- Provided internet banking access to the global finance team
- Worked on corporate guarantees and calculated payment receivables
- Maintained Board Resolutions of various subsidiary companies and warehoused FIRCs
Senior Executive – Finance and Accounting
Infosys
Bangalore
08.2012 - 10.2015
- Recording financial transactions accurately and timely
- Managing financial transactions between different entities within the company
- Handle month/quarter-end tasks, including journal entries and account reconciliations
- Preparing reports for internal and external stakeholders
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Finance
University of Mysore
Bangalore12.2016
Skills
- Treasury operations
- Kyriba
- FIS Quantum, Trax, eBAM
- SAP ERP
- Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Trusted Business Advisor (IBM)
- Investment
- Foreign exchange
- Global banking relationships
- Payments
- Leadership
- Risk assessment
- Process improvement
- Power Apps
- Power BI
- Power Automate
Accomplishments
- Executed 30+ seamless transitions with 100% on-time go-lives during Treasury Tower CoE establishment.
- Received Treasurer innovation award in 2024 on Strategic enabler for profitable growth.
- Led team to save over 1000 hours via continuous improvements projects, enhancing efficiency and reducing complexity.
- Created 360 Treasury Services Tower KPI scorecard using Power BI to drive operational excellence.
Timeline
Manager Treasury – Global Treasury Tower CoE
Caterpillar
01.2024 - Current
Cash Management Professional – Regional Treasury India/South Asia
IBM
09.2021 - 11.2023
Accountant 1 – Treasury Cash Management
Neovia Logistics
09.2017 - 06.2021
Treasury Analyst – Treasury Operations
Juniper Networks (Adecco Payroll)
11.2016 - 05.2017
Senior Executive – Treasury Operations
Wipro (Sapthaang Payroll)
03.2016 - 11.2016
Senior Executive – Finance and Accounting
Infosys
08.2012 - 10.2015
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Finance
University of Mysore
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