Position Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary: $176,000
Salary Increases: Year 2 - $186,250 | Year 3 - $196,750
Work Location: Batavia, IL
This role is eligible to participate in ALDI's Hybrid Work Program, which allows remote work up to 3 days per week (i.e., work remotely up to 3 days per week; work in-office at least 2 days per week).

Duties and Responsibilities:
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ensures the training, development, and performance of their team's staff to retain a motivated, professional workforce that achieves their career objectives.
• Recruits and recommends qualified employees for their team's staff positions.
• Establishes, communicates and evaluates job responsibilities and performance expectations to their team to ensure a mutual understanding of desired results.
• Understands the overarching company strategy while communicating and modeling the core values of the organization to create a sense of teamwork and membership among employees.
• Provides recommendations on treasury related processes ensuring adherence to policies and controls.
• Assists leadership with cash management strategies tailored to the retail business.
• Liaises with International Finance and Administration Group Treasury to ensure local business initiatives are evaluated and/or considered.
• Consults with leadership on the development of their team's strategy.
• Advises leadership to source external vendors for applicable services when appropriate.
• Liaises with divisions to ensure timely and efficient communication flow.
• Consults with the business to effectively design and streamline applicable processes within the organization.
• Keeps up to date on external best practices and relevant changes to their field/area; communicates updates to leadership.
• Leads team in cash management which includes monitoring daily cash positions and forecast cash flow to ensure optimal liquidity.
• Maintains relationship with banks, payment processors and card networks and support ongoing vendor performance management.
• Identifies and mitigates treasury-related risks including interest rate, currency, and credit risks.
• Develops and enforces policies, procedures, and controls.
• Oversees end to end payment processing across POS, eCommerce, ERP and other systems ensuring timely and accurate settlement of funds from processors to bank accounts.
• Prepares treasury reports and analysis, cash flow forecasts, and treasury performance analysis for senior management.
• Provides insights to support strategic decision-making within the retail business.
• Implements and optimizes treasury management systems to improve efficiency including streamline processes related to payments, collections, and treasury reporting.
• Supports group treasury policies and procedures including local compliance requirements, vendor coordination, cash handling, daily operations and reporting needs.
• Manages their team by driving projects and tasks to completion through effective prioritization, work planning, resource allocation, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Identifies cost-saving opportunities and potential process improvements.
• Serves as the primary link between their team's staff and leadership to ensure understanding of company goals, objectives, and opportunities for improvement.
• Complies with ALDI privacy and security requirements and policies if job responsibilities include possible access to confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job-specific Competencies:
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Consistently demonstrates the ALDI Acts Competencies as outlined for the role.
• Gives attention to detail and follows instruction.
• Ability to develop rapport, trust, and open communication that enhances the growth and job performance of direct reports.
• Understands the history, strategy, organizational authority, interdependence of job duties, products, systems, and services of the company.
• Conflict management skills.
• Ability to manage high transaction volumes and complexity.
• Knowledge of cash and money management, country programs, banking products, financial instruments, and regulatory compliance.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, and leadership skills.
• Understanding of retail operations.
• Risk management and control orientation.
• Ability to prioritize work under strict deadlines.
• Continuous improvement and automation mindset.
• Cross functional leadership and communication.

Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in Accounting/Finance and Banking and retail operations required.
• Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge.
• Proficiency with treasury management software preferred.
• CPA preferred.
• MBA or professional treasury certification preferred.
• Experience in managing a staff of 3 or more members preferred.
• Experience in treasury management, preferably within retail.
• Experience in ERP/financial reporting tools such as SAP preferred.

Physical Requirements:
• Work may be performed in an office, remote office or a combination of both where a computer and office equipment may be used as needed to perform duties.
• Regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, stand and move from one area to another.
• Constantly and repeatedly use keyboard/mouse.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs.

Travel:
• International & Domestic travel required.
• Up to 25%.