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Kansas City, KS, 8019 Bond Street, Lenexa, Kansas, United States of America

Posted Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM

At FORTÉ, every role plays a part in reimagining how the modern workplace works. Whether you're on the front lines with customers or behind the scenes making things run, your work helps people connect, collaborate, and get things done. From classrooms to control centers, we design and deliver the systems that power smarter, more connected workplaces – and it all starts with the people who make them possible. FORTÉ (formerly AVI Systems) is a 100% employee-owned company with 50+ years of experience and a bold new identity.

Reporting to the Vice President of Accounting, the Treasury Manager will be a hands‑on transformation leader responsible for building and executing FORTÉ’s global treasury operating model. The immediate mandate is to establish reliable cash visibility across the Company’s expanded banking network; strengthen cash and banking controls; ensure debt compliance; improve cash management and forecasting; and rationalize bank accounts while integrating international operations. Building on that foundation, the Treasury Manager will lead the transition of treasury activities and bank accounts, where feasible, to a primary global banking relationship and develop scalable practices for liquidity, banking, financial risk management, and internal control across FORTÉ’s global footprint.

The role will partner closely with Accounting, Tax, Finance, Legal, Information Technology, and regional leadership to manage cash efficiently across countries and jurisdictions, evaluate cash pooling and hedging strategies, comply with local requirements, and support tax‑efficient cross‑border funding and capital deployment. The ideal candidate combines strong technical treasury expertise with project management discipline, sound judgment, and a builder’s mindset suited to a rapidly growing global organization.

Immediate Priorities

• Establishtimely, reliable visibility into cash balances and liquidity across the Company’s banking network.
• Strengthen cash, payment, bank administration, access, reconciliation, andfraud‑preventioncontrols.
• Own debt administration and compliance, including borrowing availability, covenant reporting,interestand fee calculations, and required deliverables.
• Collaborate with finance and accounting to build short‑and long‑term cash forecasting, forecast ownership, and forecast‑to‑actual analysis across business units and regions.
• Rationalize bank accounts and lead the treasury integration into the Company’s primary global banking relationship.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Global Banking Consolidation and Treasury Transformation

• Lead the transition of global treasury activities and bank accounts, wherefeasible, to a primary global banking relationship while accommodating local regulatory, operational, currency, and business requirements.
• Define the global treasury operating model, including centralized and regional responsibilities, decision rights,approvalauthorities, service standards, and escalation protocols.
• Standardize global cash positioning, forecasting, payments, bank administration, intercompany funding, risk management, and treasury reporting processes across countries and banking relationships.
• Develop and execute a phased banking transition roadmap, coordinate with regional teams and banking partners, manage account openings and closures, support testing and cutover activities, and drive stakeholder communication and adoption.
• Establish reliable connectivity and information flows among banks, ERP systems, payment processes, and financial reporting tools, including appropriate security, access, and reconciliation controls.

Global Cash and Liquidity Management

• Manage daily global cash positioning and liquidity to ensure funds are available in the right legal entity, currency, andjurisdictionwhen needed while minimizing idle balances and external borrowing.
• Develop andmaintainshort‑and long‑term cash flow forecasting models; analyze forecast‑to‑actual results and improve forecast ownership and accuracy across business units and regions.
• Evaluate, design, and execute physical or notional cash pooling, cash concentration, in‑house bank, and multi‑currency netting structureswhereeconomically beneficial and legally permissible.
• Optimize short‑term investment of excess cash within approved risk parameters, including counterparty, concentration, liquidity, maturity, and yield considerations.
• Coordinate funding for acquisitions, capital expenditures, debtservice, dividends or distributions, payroll, taxes, and other significant global cash requirements.

Banking, Debt, and Capital Management

• Lead day‑to‑day relationships with global banking partners and serve as the primary internal owner for banking services, account structures, treasury products, and service performance.
• Negotiate and manage banking fees, earnings credits, interest rates, foreign exchange pricing, service agreements, guarantees, letters of credit, and other treasury arrangements.
• Administer global bank accounts, including opening and closing accounts,maintainingauthorized signers, managing user access and entitlements, and completing KYC and regulatory documentation.
• Monitor compliance with debt agreements, borrowing availability, covenant requirements, interest and fee calculations, maturities, andrequiredtreasury reporting.
• Support financing and capital structure initiatives, including revolver activity, term debt, local credit facilities, intercompany loans, and other sources of liquidity.

Cross‑Border Funding, Tax, and Regulatory Compliance

• Partner with Tax, Legal, Accounting, and external advisors todeterminethe most efficient and compliant methods to move, deploy, and repatriate cash among countries and legal entities.
• Evaluate intercompany loans, capital contributions, dividends, cash pooling, and other funding alternatives considering tax, transfer pricing, withholding tax, foreign exchange, legal, and regulatory implications.
• Ensure treasury activitiescomply withapplicable local banking, exchange control, sanctions, anti‑money laundering, corporate authorization, data protection, and other regulatory requirements.
• Maintainappropriate documentationfor intercompany funding, guarantees, hedging transactions, bank authorities, and cross‑border cash movements.
• Monitor regulatory and market developments that may affect cash accessibility, repatriation, funding costs, or treasury risk and recommendtimelyactions.

Foreign Exchange, Interest Rate, and Financial Risk Management

• Identify, quantify, andmonitorforeign currency, interest rate, liquidity, and counterparty exposures across the global organization.
• Develop andmaintaintreasury risk management policies, exposure thresholds, hedgeobjectives, approved instruments, counterparty limits, and reporting requirements.
• Evaluate and execute foreign exchange forwards, options, swaps, and other approved hedging instrumentsin accordance withCompany policy and delegated authority.
• Partner with Accounting to ensure derivatives, valuations, settlements, and hedge accounting documentation are complete,accurate, and compliant with applicable accounting standards.
• Provide clear reporting to senior leadership on market exposures, hedge coverage, effectiveness, costs, and residual risks.

Internal Controls, Governance, and Reporting

• Design, document, implement, and continuously improve internal controls over cash, payments, banking, investments, debt, intercompany funding, derivatives, and treasury systems.
• Establish segregation of duties, dual‑approval requirements, payment limits, access reviews, bank account reconciliations, fraud prevention controls, and exceptionmonitoringappropriate fora global organization.
• Maintain global treasury policies, standard operating procedures, bank account inventories, authority matrices, counterparty records, and audit‑ready supporting documentation.
• Coordinate treasury‑related audit requests; promptly investigate control exceptions, failed payments, unauthorized activity, and bank reconciliation issues.
• Develop dashboards and management reporting for cash, liquidity, debt, investments, exposures, hedges, bank fees, counterparty risk, and key treasury performance indicators.

Leadership and Cross‑Functional Partnership

• Serve as the Company’s treasury subject‑matter expert and trusted advisor to senior leadership and regional finance teams.
• Build effective working relationships across Accounting, Tax, Finance, Legal, Information Technology, Operations, M&A, and international subsidiaries.
• Support treasury due diligence and integration for acquisitions, including bank account transition, liquidity planning, controls, systems, debt, intercompany funding, and foreign exchange exposure.
• Train regional finance teams and other stakeholders on treasury policies, systems, controls, and cash forecasting responsibilities.
• Lead special projects and other treasury initiatives as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, ora relatedfield.
• Minimum of five years of progressive corporate treasury, banking, treasury consulting, or related finance experience, including meaningful responsibility in a multinational environment.
• Demonstrated experience with global cash management, liquidity forecasting, bank administration, cross‑border funding, foreign exchange risk, and treasury internal controls.
• Experience leading a global banking consolidation, bank account rationalization, cash management transformation, or comparable multinational treasury initiative.
• Ability to evaluate complex treasury issues across multiplejurisdictionsand coordinate effectively with Tax, Legal, Accounting, banks, and external advisors.
• Strong project management, analytical, negotiation, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to translate strategy into documented and sustainable processes.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience developing concise, decision‑useful treasury reporting for senior leadership.
• High degree of integrity, judgment, attention to detail, accountability, and discretion when handling sensitive financial information and payment authority.
• Ability to work across global time zones and travel domestically or internationally as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) designation.
• Master’s degree in business, finance, accounting, ora relatedfield; CPA, CFA, or equivalent professional credential.
• Working knowledge of cash pooling, intercompany lending, foreign exchange and interest rate instruments, and the operational requirements of derivative transactions.
• Experience executing foreign exchange or interest rate hedging programs and supporting hedge accounting under U.S. GAAP.
• Experience with global ERP platforms, bank APIs or host‑to‑host connectivity, SWIFT, and treasury reporting or business intelligence tools.
• Experience supporting international acquisitions, integrations, or legal entity expansion.
• Knowledge of transfer pricing, withholding tax, exchange controls, and other considerations affecting cross‑border cash movement.

Why Should You Apply?

At FORTÉ, your work matters, and it’s easy to see the impact you make. That’s because we’re 100% employee‑owned, and everyone here has a stake in how we show up – for each other, our customers, and the future we’re building. You’ll join a team that values your strengths, supports your growth, and shares your commitment to doing work that moves people and organizations forward. With bold momentum and a clear mission, FORTÉ is a place where you can bring your best – and build what’s next.

The benefits of ownership

At FORTÉ, you’re not just covered – you’re supported. Our employee‑owners have access to a comprehensive benefits package designed to protect your health, grow your wealth, and help you do your best work.

Here’s a look at what we offer:

• Healthcare, vision & dental coverage to keep you and your family well
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for more control over your healthcare dollars
• Employer‑paid life and disability insurance for added peace of mind
• 401(k) with company match to invest in your future
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) so you benefit directly from our shared success
• Tuition reimbursement and ongoing learning opportunities to support your growth
• Employer‑paid employee assistance program to care for your physical, mental, and financial health
• Paid time off that helps you truly disconnect

FORTÉ is an equal opportunity employer, including individuals with disabilities and veterans.

Kansas City, KS, 8019 Bond Street, Lenexa, Kansas, United States of America