Ascend Learning
Senior Treasury Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Leawood, KS
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Finance
🗓️ August 4th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Ascend Learning is hiring a Sr Treasury Manager responsible for managing daily treasury activities, cash forecasting, debt agreements, and financial reporting. The role also includes supporting M&A activities and maintaining relationships with external financial service providers while preparing lender and board materials.
Highlights
- Track daily cash balances and perform treasury transactions.
- Conduct quantitative analysis, cash flow forecasting, and leverage ratio projections.
- Manage corporate accounts, debt compliance, interest rate hedges, and investment funds.
- Prepare executive-level lender and Board presentations with accurate financial data.
- Support M&A activities by building financial models, risk analysis, and due diligence efforts.
- Maintain debt agreements, negotiate terms, and handle legal reviews.
- Manage corporate insurance applications and claims, including workers' compensation and real estate.
- Require 10+ years in finance/accounting, 5+ years treasury experience, and strong financial modeling skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of Datawarehouse, Microsoft BI, or Tableau preferred.
- Experience with managed debt/credit facilities and interest rate hedging is essential.
Senior Treasury Manager Full Description
Sr Treasury Manager
Job Category: Finance
Requisition Number: SRTRE006001
Full-Time
Leawood, KS 66211, USA
Job Details
Description
We Impact Lives Through Purpose-Driven Work in A People First Culture
Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning.
Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers.
We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more.
Ascend Learning leads the way in innovation and solution creation to improve outcomes and deliver results for students, educators, and healthcare workers in the ever-changing field of healthcare. We offer advanced resources that drive nursing success, empower front-line certified allied health workers, help physicians pass boards and stay current, and provide education management tools for medical education programs.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a Senior Treasury Manager, you will provide critical support for treasury activities, lender calls and board materials. You will be responsible for performing daily treasury activities and coordinating with stakeholders. Your role will also support M&A activities.
WHERE YOU’LL WORK
This position will work a hybrid schedule from our Leawood, KS office.
HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME
- Track cash balances on a daily basis and perform treasury activities.
- Provide robust quantitative analysis, cash forecasting, and modeling.
- Calculate and project leverage ratios.
- Manage relationships with key external service providers, such as Bank of America.
- Oversee the opening and closing of corporate accounts and perform reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
- Maintain debt agreements, including handling debt payments, compliance calculations, and reporting. Conduct legal reviews of new agreements and negotiate business points for each debt tranche.
- Oversee the investment of excess funds and provide investment fund reporting for the Board.
- Maintain interest rate hedges by setting up accounting documentation, negotiating rates, assisting in complex analysis, and determining hedge levels and stakeholder scenarios.
- Complete corporate insurance applications and manage data analysis, including workers' compensation and real estate. Review and recommend insurance bids from multiple carriers. Serve as the point of contact for the insurance broker and handle claims that may arise (auto, personnel, etc.). Implement and manage the Samba Safety driver program.
- Collect and analyze data for lender and Board discussions, presenting it to the Treasurer in a Board-ready state. Prepare and present financial reports and forecasts to the Treasurer and key Finance leadership. Draft executive-level lender and Board presentations, ensuring completeness and accuracy.
- Assist with M&A, investment, and business development opportunities by preparing business cases, building financial models, and highlighting risks and opportunities. Conduct quantitative analysis for negotiations and deal execution, and support financial due diligence with key finance team members.
- Provide insights into business drivers and financial forecasts, and support cross-functional teams in evaluating and integrating targets and partners.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other areas combined with relevant work experience is preferred. High School Diploma or GED required.
- 10+ years of Finance and Accounting experience required.
- 5+ years Treasury experience required.
- Proficiency in financial modeling and experience with treasury related activities.
- Must have familiarity with managed debt/credit facilities.
- Experience with interest rate hedging and risk management.
- Strong understanding of financial concepts, including cash flow forecasting, working capital management, and financial risk management.
- Very high level of attention to detail and quality output.
- Ability to present financial information and models in a concise and easily comprehensible manner.
- Comfortable working in an environment with frequent tight deadlines and ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills. Datawarehouse, Microsoft BI or Tableau background a plus.
BENEFITS
- Flexible and generous paid time off
- Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- 401(k) employer matching program
- Parental leave
- Wellness resources
- Charitable matching program
- Hybrid work
- On-site workout facilities
- Community outreach groups
- Tuition reimbursement
Fostering A Sense of Belonging
We seek out and celebrate all people and perspectives and cultivate an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued and be their authentic selves. Our culture is firmly rooted in the belief that by embracing our differences and drawing on diverse perspectives, we are a stronger, more innovative, and more successful organization where employees experience a sense of belonging.
About Ascend Learning
As a tech-enabled services company, Ascend Learning is a national leader in developing and delivering data-driven online educational content, software, assessments, analytics, and simulations serving institutions, students and employers across healthcare, fitness and wellness, public and workplace safety, skilled trades, insurance, financial services, cybersecurity, and higher education. We're committed to accelerating the learning pathways that can move people into careers where they have the knowledge and skills to have an impact and help change lives in the communities they serve. Headquartered in Burlington, MA with additional office locations and hybrid and remote workers in cities across the U.S., Ascend Learning was recognized by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group as one of America's 2023 Greatest Workplaces for Diversity.
Ascend Learning, LLC is proud to be an equal opportunity employer (M/F/Vets/Disabled). No agency or search firm submissions will be accepted. Applications for U.S. based positions with Ascend Learning, LLC must be legally authorized to work in the United States and verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
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