(Bank) Cash Management_Implementation Manager_Perm

What is this position about?

The Cash Management Implementation Manager is responsible for seamless onboarding and technical configuration of corporate clients onto our Cash Management platforms. You will guide clients through the complexities of liquidity management, payment factories, and automated reconciliation, ensuring that their global cash operations are optimized and integrated with their ERP systems.

What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like? 

Primary Role Responsibilities

1. Technical Onboarding & Configuration

• Solution Design: Translate the client's treasury requirements into a technical configuration for payments, collections, and liquidity structures (e.g., Notional Pooling, Zero Balance Accounts).
• Payment Connectivity: Lead the setting up of payment channels, including SWIFT (gpi), Host-to-Host (H2H), API integrations, and Online Banking portals.
• Reporting Setup: Configure electronic bank statements and reporting formats (e.g., MT940, CAMT, BAI2) to ensure seamless integration with the client’s ERP (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, etc.).

2. Project & Stakeholder Management

• End-to-End Lifecycle: Manage the journey from the Sales hand-off to the final "Go-Live," ensuring all regulatory and KYC requirements are met.
• Treasury Advisory: Act as a consultant to the client’s Treasurer or CFO, advising on the most efficient cash management workflows to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with Product teams to request feature enhancements and with the Technical Support team to troubleshoot connectivity issues during the testing phase.

3. Testing & Validation

• UAT Leadership: Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for payment files and reporting flows, ensuring zero-error processing before moving to production.
• Risk Management: Identify potential gaps in the client's payment workflow and suggest security controls (e.g., multi-level approvals, MFA).

Other contributions

• Ad-hoc requests – management reports and regional team requests
• Pre-sales support – often, the candidate will be required to participate in pre-sales meetings and RFP beauty parades.
• CSD support/backup – naturally, recently onboarded clients and clients with sophisticated implementation will require support, Implementations manager will work independently, or with CSD, Sales, RMs to support clients.

What is required for you to succeed?

Experience

• Tenure: 5 to 10 years of experience in Cash Management, Treasury Services, or Corporate Banking implementation.
• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of global payment rails (BOKWire, KFTC, etc.) and liquidity management products.
• ERP Familiarity: Experience working with the treasury modules of major ERPs (e.g., SAP Treasury, Kyriba, FIS) is highly preferred.

Technical & Soft Skills

• Messaging Standards: Strong knowledge of ISO 20022 and legacy SWIFT standards.
• Analytical Rigor: Ability to analyze raw payment files and troubleshoot formatting errors.
• Client-Facing Presence: Ability to lead high-stakes meetings with Treasurers and IT Directors.
• Certification: PMP or specialized Treasury certifications (e.g., CTP - Certified Treasury Professional) are a significant advantage.

Performance Indicators (Success Metrics)

• Time-to-Revenue: Reducing the time from account opening to the first live transaction.
• First-Time Right (FTR): Percentage of implementations completed without configuration errors during Go-Live.
• Client Adoption: Depth of product penetration (e.g., client using both payments and automated reporting).

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

• BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community

• BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization

• Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness

• BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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