Finance and Treasury Manager

United Petroleum Transports

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Finance and Treasury Manager                      

Department: Finance/Accounting                            

Location: Corporate

Reports To: Chief Financial Officer 

FLSA: Exempt

Purpose:

Embrace, promote, and achieve the Vision, Values and Mission of the company, and assist in meeting the Owner’s plan each year. UPT is committed to the Guiding Principles of the Responsible Care initiative and anticipates that all employees will share our commitment by conducting themselves consistently with those principles to make the industry even safer for our employees and communities.

Position Summary:

The Finance and Treasury Manager reports to the Chief Financial Officer and regularly works with departments across the organization. This is a hands-on leadership position overseeing all treasury functions. In addition to treasury responsibilities, this position plays a critical role in cash forecasting, borrowing base reporting, and bank relationship management—while ensuring efficient liquidity management, disciplined capital allocation, and debt portfolio optimization.

The company is a large liquid and dry bulk transportation provider, operating in an asset-based environment. The Finance and Treasury Manager must understand the financial and operational complexities of the logistics industry and support scalable financial infrastructure to enable continued rapid growth.

In addition to treasury responsibilities, this role plays a key role supporting the company’s financial projection model, supporting the annual capital budget and forecast processes, and providing forward-looking analysis to inform strategic decision making. The individual will also lead efforts in managing the company’s debt and lease portfolios, ensuring compliance, covenant tracking, and alignment with long-term capital strategy.

This position contributes to the company’s success by providing strategic corporate finance and treasury management expertise. The role will deliver critical analytical support as the company focuses on rapid growth.

Essential Job Functions:

• Serve as a key finance partner to the company’s leadership and business units, building relationships based on communication, collaboration, and financial insight.
• Lead daily cash forecasting and cash management processes to optimize liquidity and working capital across the enterprise.
• Oversee borrowing base reporting to ensure compliance with lender requirements and enhance financial planning.
• Manage treasury operations, including banking relationships, cash concentration, cash movement strategies, analysis of fees, and merchant services.
• Evaluate and execute debt facilities, lease financing, and equipment loans to support operational needs and strategic initiatives.
• Maintain oversight of the company’s equipment and real estate loan and lease portfolios, including covenant compliance, amortization schedules, renewals, and financial reporting.
• Develop and implement treasury policies, procedures, and controls to improve financial efficiency, compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Support development and maintenance of integrated financial forecasts, including three-statement models and scenario planning.
• Partner with business leaders and the financial organization to drive budgeting, forecasting, capital planning, and strategic analysis.
• Monitor financial market conditions and macroeconomic indicators to assess potential impact on treasury, debt costs, and funding access.
• Provide timely and accurate financial reporting related to treasury, debt, and lease activities delivering insights into cash flow trends, interest costs, and liquidity risk.
• Collaborate with the CFO and executive team to support preparation of board-level reporting packages, lender updates, and financial presentations.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation within treasury and finance functions.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Special projects as requested and other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications for Consideration:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in treasury or corporate finance roles.
• Demonstrated expertise in cash forecasting, borrowing base reporting, and capital markets activities.
• Proven experience managing loan and lease portfolios, including covenant monitoring and compliance reporting.
• Proficiency in financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and three-statement model development.
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting
• Experience in the transportation or logistics industry is a plus.
• Attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Effective communicator with the ability to tailor financial insights to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Self-starter with initiative and a continuous improvement mindset.
• Team-oriented with a collaborative, solutions-focused approach.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects
• Self-starter with detail-oriented work habits
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Display professional demeanor
• Good interpersonal skills; able to work well with a wide range of individuals
• Demonstrate dependability through good attendance and adherence to timelines and schedules
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, and familiarity with ERP and treasury systems.
• Knowledge of basic company employment policies and procedures

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration, finance, or related field required.
• MBA or advanced degree in finance or accounting preferred.
• Certified Treasury Professional (CTP) or CFA designation preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Sitting for long periods of time, walking, finger dexterity, feeling, repetitive motions, and talking, hearing and visual activity.
• Occasional lifting (up to 20 pounds).

Working Conditions:

• Normal office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and copier/printer/scanners.