Senior Treasury Manager, Banking and Strategy

About the role

This role supports Agoda's brand within Booking Holdings, overseeing global banking operations across multiple regions. You will manage bank relationships, commercial agreements, and banking infrastructure, contributing to the overall treasury strategy. The position involves developing compliant banking solutions and driving strategic initiatives while also leading and mentoring a high-performing team.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Lead global banking operations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, including bank relationship management, infrastructure, and treasury strategy.
• Develop and implement regulatory-compliant banking solutions and ensure effective connectivity using SWIFT Net, H2H, TMS Payment Hub, and API.
• Participate in high-stakes commercial negotiations with global banking partners regarding fees, interest conditions, and advanced cash management techniques.
• Ensure compliance with global Bank Account Management (BAM) and Banking Administration processes, including KYC and signatory management.
• Contribute to developing banking and strategy policies, procedures, and governance frameworks.
• Drive continuous improvement through process automation and technology adoption with Treasury Data Science/Analytics and Banking Technology teams.
• Design and maintain process and control frameworks to meet SOX and business control requirements and manage operational risks.
• Oversee key performance deliverables for global banking operations, ensuring business resilience.
• Plan and execute complex, cross-functional initiatives related to payments and new revenue models, aligning stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Treasury SMEs, Finance, and other teams to communicate findings and recommendations, influencing senior stakeholders.
• Provide banking and strategy advisory for new verticals and products, negotiating with banks and fintechs, and defining target operating models.
• Lead annual planning and design long-term banking operating models aligned with company strategy.
• Ensure compliance with banking, payments, tax, legal, and AML/sanctions regulations.
• Act as an innovation catalyst within Treasury and Finance, exploring and implementing new solutions.
• Champion process improvement, waste reduction, AI automation, new technologies, and Six Sigma principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree in Finance or a related field is preferred.
• Professional treasury qualification such as CTP or AMCT is advantageous.
• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in bank relationship management, commercial management (fees, interest), and service level management.
• Strong understanding of banking connectivity and technologies (SWIFT/API/H2H, Open Banking), bank account management, treasury management systems, and high-level payments architecture.
• Experience designing integrations across TMS, ERP, and banking platforms.
• Extensive experience in banking, treasury, and financial services, including advanced FX, cash management, and risk management techniques.
• Advanced analytical skills for structuring ambiguous problems, decomposing workstreams, and making data-driven decisions.
• Excellent English communication and interpersonal skills, with strong stakeholder management up to SVP level, including consensus building and conflict resolution.
• Skilled in persuasion and negotiation to drive policy adoption, target operating models, and solutions, with experience leading workshops.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration in complex, matrixed environments and influence broader strategy.
• Sound judgment and ability to act as a trusted advisor to leadership, mentoring and coaching colleagues.
• Demonstrated end-to-end global project delivery in product and/or commercial initiatives, such as safeguarding models, global banking and payments solutioning, systems enablement, global cash and liquidity management, and/or global risk management.
• Experience leading the design and development of compliant, scalable, and commercially competitive end-to-end fund flow models for evolving business models and cross-brand initiatives, especially in Asian regions.
• Proven track record of optimizing fund flow costs in domestic Asian markets and cross-border between domestic Asian markets and G10 markets.

Skills & tools

• SWIFT Net
• H2H
• TMS Payment Hub
• API
• SWIFT
• Open Banking
• ERP
• AI automation
• Six Sigma principles

Practical notes

This role is initially dedicated to the Agoda brand but may expand to support other Booking Holdings brands in the region.