Director of Corporate Treasury

As the Director of Corporate Treasury at Okta, you will be a cornerstone of our Global Finance organization. Reporting directly to the Treasurer, you will oversee our capital structure, liquidity management, and financial risk mitigation strategies. This is a high-visibility leadership role where you will manage a global balance sheet while leading a critical digital transformation through the implementation of Kyriba.

Key Responsibilities

Investment Management & Capital Allocation

• Portfolio Management: Oversee the company’s investment portfolio, ensuring adherence to the Corporate Investment Policy while optimizing yield within risk parameters.
• Capital Allocation Modeling: Develop sophisticated financial models to evaluate capital allocation strategies, including share buybacks, debt repayment, M&A funding, repatriation, and internal R&D investment.
• Strategy Benchmarking: Monitor market trends and peer benchmarks to advise the Treasurer and CFO on optimal capital structure and return-of-capital frameworks.

Cash & Liquidity Management

• Global Liquidity: Direct global cash positioning, forecasting, and liquidity planning to ensure optimal funding for operations and M&A activity.
• SaaS Cash Conversion: Optimize the "Cash Conversion Cycle," managing the nuances of high-volume recurring billing and deferred revenue impacts on liquidity.
• Banking Relations: Oversee global banking relationships and the administration of bank accounts, investment accounts and portals.

Strategic Project Leadership (Kyriba Implementation)

• Functional Project Ownership: Serve as the primary Business Lead for the global rollout of Kyriba, defining future-state treasury workflows and ensuring the system meets business objectives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the project manager, the technology team, cross functional leaders, banks,  and external consultants to ensure technical configurations (API, Host-to-Host, ERP integrations) align with operational requirements.
• Requirement Translation: Distill complex treasury needs—such as multi-currency pooling—into clear functional specifications.
• UAT & Training: Validate UAT test cases, scripts and plans. Conduct UAT and provide sign-off. Ensure full adoption by broader, cross-functional finance teams through proper training and hypercare.

Capital Markets, Strategic Support & Risk Management 

• Capital Markets: Partner with the Treasurer to execute capital market transactions, including debt issuances and share buyback programs.
• Hedging Strategies: Develop and execute hedging strategies to mitigate foreign exchange (FX) risk and interest rate exposure.
• Strategic Support:  Treasury due diligence, acquisition integration and support of business expansion/new business models.
• Insurance Programs:  Lead the annual renewals of our insurance programs with our insurance broker and cross functional constituents.  
• Counterparty Risk:  Monitor and ensure the company is appropriately managing counter party risks.

Team Leadership & Operations

• Mentorship: Mentor and lead a team of two, fostering a culture of precision, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Operational Rigor: Manage the day-to-day treasury operations while leading high-impact strategic projects.
• Controls: Maintain rigorous internal controls and SOX documentation for all treasury-related activities.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive treasury experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role within a public, high-growth technology or SaaS company.
• Technical Expertise: Proven ability to manage large-scale investment portfolios and build complex capital allocation models, while having the ability to present with executive level precision.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics. MBA, CFA, or CTP preferred.
• System Expertise: Experience leading a full-lifecycle implementation of a Tier-1 TMS (Kyriba preferred).

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