Corporate Treasury Advisory

Treasury infrastructure, built right — from firefighting to institutional-grade.

We partner with CFOs and finance leaders to design, rebuild, and govern world-class corporate treasury operations. In twelve months, your company goes from scattered spreadsheets to a fully documented, audit-ready treasury function — one that any board, investor, or lender can stand behind.

10
Strategic Pillars
12
Month Roadmap
15+
Core Deliverables
Global Cash Position Live
$284.6M
Across 14 banks · 9 countries · 6 currencies
Forecast Accuracy
97.2%
▲ 12 pts YoY
Idle Cash
4.1%
▼ from 18%
USD
62%
EUR
22%
GBP
9%
MXN
4%
Other
3%
Built for
PE-Backed Portfolio Companies
Post-M&A Integrations
Pre-IPO Growth Stage
Multi-Entity Global Operators
The Problem

If your treasury function looks like this, you need us.

Most finance organizations we meet are running billion-dollar balance sheets on institutional knowledge, Excel, and hope. We fix that.

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No Cash Visibility

You can't answer "how much cash do we have, where, in what currency" in under an hour. Daily positioning is a weekly scramble.

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Unknown Access

You don't know who has admin rights on your bank portals, who can wire money, or which former employees still have access.

Trapped Value

Idle cash sitting in non-operating accounts. Bank fees nobody renegotiates. FX losses no one measures. Covenants no one tracks.

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Zero Policy

No written Investment Policy. No FX policy. No documented DoA. When auditors or a new sponsor shows up, the answer is "we'll get back to you."

What We Build

Ten pillars of a world-class treasury function.

Every engagement is scoped from the same proven framework. We select the pillars that match your company's size, complexity, and maturity — then execute.

01

Liquidity & Global Cash Visibility

Daily global positioning, standardized forecasting, variance tracking, and a single source of truth across entities, banks, and currencies.

02

Banking Infrastructure & Governance

Global account inventory, eBAM, access hygiene, standardized KYC, and centralized management of every banking relationship under Treasury.

03

Payment Operations & Working Capital

Approval workflows, cash pooling, intercompany netting, disbursement calendars, and fraud-prevention controls built into every payment rail.

04

Debt, Capital Structure & Covenants

Lender reporting calendars, covenant monitoring dashboards, hedging strategy reviews, and CFO-side support on refinancing and new facilities.

05

Corporate Investment Portfolio & Yield

Investment guidelines, counterparty limits, concentration monitoring, and performance reporting against benchmark yields — all governed by policy.

06

Corporate Card & Spend Management

Card program design, rebate optimization, automated reconciliation, and global usage policy with ERP-integrated exception reporting.

07

Treasury Technology & Data

Future-state TMS design (Kyriba, GTreasury, Panax, Trovata, ION), API connectivity, unified data model, and BI dashboards for every stakeholder.

08

Risk & Regulatory Compliance

FX and IR risk policy, sanctions screening, FBAR/FATCA, SOX-ready controls, fraud assessment, and treasury business continuity planning.

09

Cross-Functional Partnership & Strategic Advisory

Formal touchpoints with FP&A, Tax, Payroll, and Accounting. Treasury at the table for M&A, entity structuring, and capital allocation.

10

Policy Library & Governance

A complete, board-approved policy library: Cash, Investment, FX, IR, Card, Intercompany, Counterparty — plus DoA, version control, and review cadence.

What You Get

The dashboards your CFO — and every stakeholder — has been asking for.

Three of the core operational views we build for every engagement. Live, drillable, tied to source systems, and delivered in your executive review, board pack, and lender report every cycle.

Global Liquidity & Exposure
Dashboard 01 · Balance Distribution
As of Apr 11, 2026
FX Live
Entities 18
Total Cash
$284.6M
▲ $12.4M MTD
Available / Operating
$231.2M
81% of total
Liquidity Runway
186 days
▲ Above 60-day floor
Restricted / Trapped
$42.1M
15% of total

Exposure by Bank Top 10

Concentration risk · counterparty limits

Exposure by Currency 6 active

FX composition · unhedged tail risk

Exposure by Country 9 jurisdictions

Regulatory & geographic concentration

Exposure by Entity Top 8 subsidiaries

Intercompany visibility · trapped cash
13-Week Cash Flow Forecast & Variance
Dashboard 02 · Forecast · Actual · Variance
Horizon 13 Weeks
Variance Period Q1 2026 (QTD)
Next Lender Report May 15
QTD Forecast Accuracy
97.5%
▲ Above 90% policy floor
Projected Min Cash (13-wk)
$185.2M
Week 7 trough · $35M cushion to $150M floor
Projected Ending Cash (Wk 13)
$247.1M
After $38.2M CapEx & $28.4M debt service
QTD Net Variance
+$0.3M
+0.1% · net cash flow ahead of plan

Cash Flow Variance Q1 2026 Actuals vs. Forecast

Finance-standard cut with operating drill-down · commentary documents management's read on each line
Category Forecast Actual Variance $ Variance % Commentary
Opening Cash $272.2M $272.2M Jan 1, 2026 opening balance
Operating Inflows — Customer Receipts $185.2M $187.4M +$2.2M +1.2% Meridian Retail paid 8 days early; collections ahead across top 3 accounts
Operating Outflows −$138.0M −$139.6M −$1.6M −1.2% T&E overrun partially offset by marketing deferral
Payroll & Benefits −$68.0M −$69.3M −$1.3M −1.9% Q1 merit increases activated Feb 15 vs. Mar 1 plan
Facility & Office −$9.2M −$9.0M +$0.2M +2.2% On plan
T&E −$6.4M −$8.2M −$1.8M −28.1% Q1 sales kickoff overran travel budget; policy tightening in Q2
Marketing −$19.8M −$18.4M +$1.4M +7.1% Q1 campaign launch deferred to Q2
Outside Services −$14.6M −$15.2M −$0.6M −4.1% Audit fees trended above plan
Software & Data −$20.0M −$19.5M +$0.5M +2.5% AWS reserved-instance renewal captured savings
Operating Cash Flow $47.2M $47.8M +$0.6M +1.3% Receipt timing offset OpEx variance
CapEx −$18.2M −$18.4M −$0.2M −1.1% Production equipment delivery accelerated 2 weeks
Debt Service −$12.1M −$12.1M $0 0.0% On plan · Senior + TLB interest
Other Financing −$4.8M −$4.9M −$0.1M −2.1% Revolver interest · no new draws
Net Change in Cash +$12.1M +$12.4M +$0.3M +2.5% Net cash flow landed $0.3M ahead of plan
Ending Cash $284.3M $284.6M +$0.3M +0.1% QTD ending cash within 0.1% of forecast

Projected Ending Cash 13-Week Forward

Week-by-week projection · trough at Week 7 ($185.2M) vs. $150M treasury floor

Forecast Accuracy Trend 13-Week Trailing

Weekly forecast accuracy · 90% policy floor

13-Week Forecast Waterfall Current Cash → Week 13

Forward plan · operating receipts vs. OpEx, CapEx, debt service, and other financing
Capital Structure & Risk
Dashboard 03 · Covenants · Rate Exposure · Counterparty
Facility Senior + TLB + Revolver
Covenants Compliant
Next Lender Report May 15
Covenant Headroom
148 days
Leverage 3.6× vs 4.5× max
Unhedged Floating Rate
38%
▼ Below 50% policy cap
Unhedged FX Exposure
7.2%
Within policy band
Yield vs Benchmark
4.82%
+18 bps vs SOFR

Debt Composition & Rate Exposure $540M total

Fixed · hedged floating · unhedged floating

Covenant Tracker Cushion to Breach

Distance from breach · senior facility covenants

Credit Facility Utilization Drawn vs Capacity

Revolver availability as liquidity reserve

Counterparty Concentration Max bank share, 12 mo

Cash at largest banking partner vs. 33% policy cap
The 12-Month Roadmap

Sequenced by criticality. Executed by quarter.

We start with the highest-risk work and end with a fully codified, audit-ready treasury function handed back to your internal team.

Quarter 01
Months 1–3

Risk Containment & Cash Control

  • Emergency risk containment
  • Global bank account inventory
  • Signatory & access documentation
  • Daily cash positioning
  • Weekly CFO reporting
  • Current-state assessment
Quarter 02
Months 4–6

Operating Structure & Payment Controls

  • Treasury Operating Model v1.0
  • Global signatory & RACI matrices
  • Access cleanup & SoD
  • Payment fraud controls
  • Banking remediation
  • Intercompany settlement framework
Quarter 03
Months 7–9

Liquidity, Risk & Technology Optimization

  • Forecasting & variance model
  • Cash pooling & sweeping
  • Bank fee renegotiation
  • Covenant & risk dashboards
  • TMS architecture & APIs
  • Investment program launch
Quarter 04
Months 10–12

Policy Codification & Handoff

  • Full policy library (board approved)
  • SOX-ready controls & audit prep
  • Treasury business continuity plan
  • Treasury Operating Manual
  • Training & knowledge transfer
  • Year-end executive handoff
Outcomes

What a fully built treasury function looks like.

The targets we engineer every engagement toward. Measured, benchmarked, and reported monthly to leadership.

100%
Global cash captured in daily reporting
>60days
Liquidity runway — cash plus undrawn committed facilities
>90days
Covenant headroom maintained on senior facility
12mo
From fragmented finance to institutional-grade treasury

Treasury is not a back-office function. Done right, it's the first line of defense for enterprise value — and the single best place a CFO can find basis points, reduce risk, and sleep at night.

Optimal Liquidity Group AdvisorsTreasury Infrastructure, Built Right.
Start Here

A two-week Treasury Diagnostic.

We spend ten business days inside your finance function and deliver a written diagnostic: every bank account, every access risk, every policy gap, and a prioritized roadmap for the next twelve months. Fixed scope, fixed fee, no strings attached.

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What you'll receive
  • Global bank account & access inventory
  • Cash visibility gap assessment
  • Controls & policy gap report
  • Quick-win remediation list
  • 12-month roadmap & scoped proposal