Cash Desk Transformation Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and enhancement of cash management, liquidity forecasting, and funding analytics used across portfolios and business lines.
• Own and evolve core cash‑related data sets, metrics, and reporting frameworks, ensuring consistency, transparency, and scalability.
• Partner with Portfolio Management, Short‑Term Trading, Risk, and Operations to translate business needs into analytical solutions, tools, and dashboards.
• Drive automation and straight‑through‑processing initiatives across cash workflows, including reconciliation, forecasting, and exception management.
• Serve as a key Cash Desk representative on large‑scale departmental and firm‑wide transformation programs, including data platforms, operating model redesign, and system modernization.
• Collaborate with internal Technology teams and external vendors on solution design, data integration, UAT, and implementation.
• Establish governance, controls, and documentation around cash data, metrics, and analytics to support auditability and operational resilience.
• Provide thought leadership on industry best practices related to cash, liquidity, treasury analytics, and operational data architecture.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, helping elevate the overall analytical and technical capability of the Cash Desk.
• Technical & Analytical Focus Areas
• Development of advanced analytics and metrics to measure forecasting accuracy, liquidity usage, funding efficiency, and operational risk.
• Use of programming and query languages (e.g., Python, SQL, VBA) to automate processes, perform deep data analysis, and prototype new capabilities.
• Build, test, and productionize dashboards and reporting solutions for senior management.
• Support system migrations, platform enhancements, and integration of new data sources across cash and treasury ecosystems.
• Quantification of business impact (risk reduction, efficiency gains, cost savings, capital optimization) for technology and transformation initiatives.
• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field; advanced degree preferred.
• 6+ years of relevant experience in asset management, investment banking, treasury, risk, or financial technology roles.
• Strong hands‑on technical skills, including advanced Excel and demonstrated experience with SQL and/or Python for data analysis and automation.
• Proven experience designing and working with complex financial data sets across multiple systems.
• Solid understanding of financial markets, funding mechanics, and the trade lifecycle, particularly within fixed income and derivatives.
• Track record of leading or materially contributing to technology‑enabled change initiatives.

Requirements

• Experience supporting cash management, liquidity management, collateral management, or treasury functions.
• Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, reporting tools, and cloud‑based analytics environments.
• Experience partnering with Technology teams on system build

Benefits

Additional Information

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients' capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world's largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns. Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients. Role Overview The Cash Desk is a core operational function at PIMCO, responsible for enterprise‑wide cash management, liquidity forecasting, and funding execution across mutual funds, hedge funds, and separately managed accounts. In addition to supporting day‑to‑day liquidity needs, the Cash Desk plays a critical role in shaping how cash data, forecasting models, and funding analytics are produced, governed, and consumed across the firm. This role is designed for a highly analytical, technically skilled professional who will operate less as a day‑to‑day cash operator and more as a builder, architect, and change agent. The role will lead and contribute to complex data, analytics, and technology initiatives, partnering closely with Technology, Portfolio Management, Trading, Risk, and Operations to modernize cash management capabilities and support firm‑wide transformation efforts. The working hours for this role are 5am - 3.30pm Local Time

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