Senior Corporate Treasury Analyst
Lee Enterprises Inc
Davenport, IA
Full-time
Finance
Posted on April 15, 2025
Lee Enterprises is seeking a detail-oriented and motivated accounting professional to join our company to support the company's corporate treasury team. The primary areas of responsibility of the position include cash flow tracking and related cash journal entries for Lee's corporate processes. Knowledge of the payment card processing industry as well as the ability to quickly learn and utilize multiple business software systems is critical.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news and information, and a major platform for advertising, with daily newspapers, rapidly-growing digital products, marketing services, innovative technology and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 73 markets in 26 states. Lee is based in Davenport, Iowa, and our stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol LEE. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net .
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepares the company's scheduled cash flow forecasts (weekly, 13-week, annual, as needed)
- Proactively lead continuous process improvement efforts to optimize and improve the cash forecasting model on an ongoing basis
- Prepares analysis of various organizational data related to the management of cash to support or make recommendations relating to best practices
- Administer variety of banking and financial applications
- Journal entries and reconciliations related to corporate cash
- Track and manage corporate debt to ensure timely principal and interest payments, as well as subsequent journal entries and reconciliations are documented and complete
- Responsible for ongoing and ad hoc reporting for senior management
- Research, evaluate, and provide analysis related to treasury operations services
- Assist in supporting external and internal audits of treasury and ensuring compliance with all Treasury related controls and policies
- Initiate and manage corporate wires and ACH payments
- Investigate payment exceptions among the finance, treasury systems and bank to resolve issues
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field, MBA and/or CTP preferred
- 3-5 years working in financial modeling, analysis or forecasting for a large firm ($1B+ in revenue)
- Knowledge of credit card processing environments, regulations and structures
- An ownership mentality: willingness to roll up sleeves and do whatever is necessary to provide excellent customer service to internal stakeholders
- Detail oriented and ability to ensure accuracy
- Strong quantitative analytical skills to work effectively across functions and business teams
- Superior Excel proficiency, cash modeling and reporting skills
- Demonstrated ability to analyze, model, communicate and present large amounts of data to leadership and other stakeholders
- Ability to adapt to changing work environments with ability to prioritize urgent requests
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced changing environment, handling multiple projects simultaneously
- Time management, including multi-tasking
- Planning and organizational skills
Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news and information, and a major platform for advertising, with daily newspapers, rapidly-growing digital products, marketing services, innovative technology and nearly 350 weekly and specialty publications serving 73 markets in 26 states. Lee is based in Davenport, Iowa, and our stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol LEE. For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net .
