Lead Kyriba / Treasury Managing Consultant
Description
Position Overview
The Senior Kyriba / Treasury Consultant is a client-facing leader responsible for guiding end-to-end delivery of Kyriba implementations and treasury solutions. This role leads discovery workshops, defines solution design, and drives execution across Cash Management, Bank Connectivity, Payments, and Reporting. Senior Consultants shape client decisions, oversee build and testing, and ensure smooth cutover and stabilization.
Key Objectives & Success Deliverables
30-Days
- Establish project plan and RACI ownership.
- Align workshop schedule and discovery scope.
- Confirm bank/file matrix and integration inventory.
- Stand up RAID log and decision log.
3-Months
- Secure design sign-offs across Cash Management, Connectivity, Payments, and Reporting.
- Supervise build activities and validate configuration.
- Guide bank setup, validate statement imports, and confirm SFTP/API connections.
- Publish a structured client training plan.
6-Months
- Lead UAT readiness; triage and resolve defects.
- Finalize and validate cutover plan, including controls and audit evidence.
- Stabilize bank connections under agreed SLAs.
12-Months
- Deliver production stabilization with adoption KPIs met.
- Implement continuous improvement backlog.
- Document reusable playbooks, templates, and best practices.
Core Functions & Abilities
- Deliver Kyriba solution design and depth across Cash, Connectivity, Payments, and Reporting.
- Manage integrations and file mapping, including troubleshooting statement, payment, and reporting files.
- Facilitate executive-level workshops and decision-driving sessions with clear documentation.
- Ensure project hygiene through ownership, closure, and disciplined documentation.
Challenges & How to Overcome Them
- Bank lead-times and format quirks: Maintain a bank matrix, parallelize testing, escalate delays early.
- Cross-time-zone training needs: Use structured handoffs, recorded sessions, and published runbooks.
- Stakeholder indecision: Provide options, trade-offs, and enforce timeboxed decisions.
- Complex IT dependencies: Align early with client IT and banks, define cutover checkpoints clearly.
Attributes & Behaviors
- Consultative, concise communicator with executive presence.
- Evidence-driven with a bias for action and resolution.
- Calm under pressure, anticipates risks, and mitigates proactively.
- Demonstrates strong ownership and follow-through
Required Skills & Experience
- 5–10 years of Treasury and TMS experience (Kyriba strongly preferred).
- Kyriba Certified (required).
- Knowledge of standard bank statement formats and global payment standards.
- Working knowledge of SFTP/API and Kyriba Data Exchange.
- Proven experience in client-facing facilitation and executive-level communication.
- Hands-on issue triage, defect management, and disciplined project hygiene.
Preferred Skills
- Bank Fee Analysis.
- Liquidity Planner.
- General Ledger Reconciliation.
- Payment Factory experience.
- Onboarding large US banks (e.g., JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America).
Culture Fit at Elire
- Transparent and keeps project trackers current.
- Escalates issues early with solutions, not just problems.
- Team-first mindset, coaching and unblocking peers.
- Owns quality of deliverables and drives client success.
WIIFM / Career Opportunity
- Lead marquee Kyriba implementations within a growing practice.
- Shape Elire’s delivery standards, reusable templates, and playbooks.
- Broad Kyriba functional scope with senior client and executive exposure.
- Clear path to thought leadership, mentoring, and future practice leadership.
Interview Process
Recruiter screen → technical deep dive → case + stakeholder role‑play → references.
About Elire
Elire is a Certified Partner of Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, Kyriba, and FIS. Established in 2005, Elire is a Minneapolis-based full-service consulting firm with nearly 20 years of experience successfully completing projects across industries. Over one hundred clients in the Public and Fortune 500 Financial, Services, and Utilities sectors have benefited from Elire’s hands-on guidance and knowledge.
We help organizations achieve success by efficiently implementing, integrating, and upgrading software investments. Our consultants bring world-class skills and experience to every project. To learn more, visit www.elire.com.