Job Description

Workster is partnering with a global investment management firm to recruit a senior Treasury & Credit leader for its office in Sofia, Bulgaria.

This senior role will lead the Treasury and Credit functions across the firm’s global platform. The successful candidate will combine deep treasury expertise with credit markets knowledge, a strong control mindset, and proven leadership in a fast-paced investment environment. This is a high-visibility role with responsibility for cash and liquidity management, funding and bank relationships, counterparty credit oversight, and contributing to balance sheet and capital strategy.

Your Role

• Lead the Treasury function, including daily liquidity and cash management, short-term funding, and forecasting

• Oversee global bank relationships and negotiate banking, custody, and financing arrangements to optimise cost, flexibility and operational resilience

• Develop and maintain robust cash forecasting models and intraday liquidity processes to support trading and settlement requirements

• Manage counterparty credit risk policies and processes, including credit approvals, limits, monitoring and remediation

• Own firm-wide funding strategy, including capital allocation, credit lines, repo and other secured financing arrangements

• Partner with Trading, Risk, Finance and Legal to ensure integrated approach to collateral management, margin and capital requirements

• Provide senior oversight of treasury operations, payments, bank reconciliations and treasury systems; drive process improvements and automation where appropriate

• Ensure strong internal controls, regulatory compliance and accurate reporting for treasury and credit activities

• Build, mentor and lead a high-performing team across treasury and credit operations in Sofia, aligning resourcing with business needs

• Report to senior management and the Board on liquidity, funding, credit exposures and related risks; contribute to strategic planning and stress testing exercises

• Represent the firm externally with banks, rating agencies and regulators as required

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or related field; advanced degree or professional qualification (e.g. CFA, ACCA) advantageous

• Typically 10+ years’ experience in treasury, treasury operations, or credit risk within investment management, banking, or a related financial services environment

• Proven experience managing bank relationships, negotiating financing arrangements and running liquidity/funding programmes

• Strong knowledge of counterparty credit assessment, limits frameworks and credit monitoring processes

• Operational experience with treasury systems, payment platforms and accounting interfaces; experience with ERP or treasury management systems is a plus

• Excellent analytical skills, commercial judgement and a disciplined control mindset

• Demonstrable leadership ability, with experience building and developing teams in a collaborative, high-performance environment

• Strong communication skills, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and external counterparties

• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, multi-jurisdictional environment and manage competing priorities

The Offer

• Senior leadership role within a sophisticated global investment platform

• Strategic influence over treasury, funding and credit policy across the firm

• Opportunity to build and lead a growing team based in Sofia

• High level of cross-functional interaction with Trading, Risk, Finance and Legal teams

• Competitive compensation aligned with market standards and seniority

• Supportive, performance-driven culture with long-term career development potential