Senior Financial Planning & Liquidity Specialist

TLDR

Own and enhance Baubap’s financial planning infrastructure while delivering reliable cash flow forecasts and liquidity risk insights.

The mission:

Own and operate Baubap’s cash flow and liquidity management while ensuring the integrity, evolution, and continuous improvement of our core financial models.

This role sits within Strategic Finance and combines rigorous short-term liquidity oversight with medium and long-term financial modeling responsibilities. The primary mandate is to ensure disciplined cash visibility, reliable forecasting, and proactive liquidity risk management. In parallel, the role will act as the operational owner of our financial planning infrastructure through maintaining, optimizing, and strengthening the models that support decision-making across margin, OPEX, portfolio performance, and capital planning.

This is a high-responsibility position for someone who combines strong technical modeling skills with operational rigor and continuous improvement mindset.

The expected outcome:

    • Accurate rolling 3-month cash flow forecast with clear liquidity visibility and risk flags
    • Daily consolidated cash position across entities and trust structures
    • Reliable forecast vs actual variance analysis with quantified drivers and corrective actions
    • Financial models (cash flow, Annual Operating Plan, other operating models) that are consistently updated, structured, and decision-ready
    • Continuous improvements in forecasting processes, automation, and reporting quality.
    • Clear executive-ready liquidity updates and financial insights that support strategic decisions

    Responsibilities

    Cash Flow & Liquidity Ownership

    • Build, maintain, and operate short and medium-term cash flow forecast across operating entities and trust structures
    • Ensure daily visibility into cash balances, upcoming obligations, and liquidity headroom
    • Reconcile forecast vs actual inflows and outflows; explain timing and driver-based variances
    • Identify projected liquidity constraints early, quantify impacts, and propose mitigation actions
    • Coordinate with internal stakeholders on payment timing, funding needs, and cash trade-offs
    • Align forecast assumptions with commercial plans, operating expense plans, and contractual payment obligations; escalate misalignments early.

    Financial Model Ownership

    • Own the maintenance, structure, and reliability of core financial models, including cash flow, Annual Operating Plan, portfolio projections, and related operating models
    • Ensure models remain aligned with business reality, updated assumptions, and evolving strategy
    • Improve model architecture, formula integrity, documentation, and version control standards
    • Conduct scenario and sensitivity analyses to support capital planning, growth initiatives, and risk evaluation

    Forecasting Process & OPEX Integration

    • Track OPEX cash and accrual impact and explain deviations vs plan
    • Improve forecasting discipline through standardized assumptions, validation checks, and structured review cycles
    • Support cross-functional teams in understanding the financial implications of operational decisions

    Automation & Continuous Improvement

    • Identify opportunities to streamline and automate reporting, reconciliations, and forecasting workflows
    • Strengthen data integrations between banking platforms, ERP systems, servicing tools, and financial models
    • Implement control checks and error-proofing mechanisms to enhance model reliability
    • Elevate reporting quality and consistency to reduce manual effort and increase decision speed

    Ad-Hoc Strategic Analysis

    • Support analysis across capital markets, product performance, risk dynamics, growth initiatives, and funding structures
    • Translate operational data into structured financial insights that inform strategic decisions

 

Requirements:

    • 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Treasury, Corporate Finance, or Strategic Finance with exposure to cash forecasting and financial modeling
    • Proven track record building and operating rolling cash forecasts and managing liquidity visibility
    • Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining structured financial models
    • Experience in complex cash structures is highly valued (e.g. multi-entity setups, trusts/SPVs, restricted vs unrestricted cash)

    Technical & Analytical Skills

    • Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills (structured modeling, scenario analysis, data validation, error-proofing).
    • Strong understanding of cash flow mechanics and forecast reconciliation
    • Ability to translate operational drivers into financial impacts
    • Comfort working with multiple data sources and collaborating with crossfunctional teams
    • Familiarity with SQL or BI tools is a plus

    Operational & Strategic Mindset

    • Strong attention to detail and control orientation
    • Structured thinker with a process-improvement mindset
    • Ability to operate in ambiguity while maintaining analytical rigor
    • Strong communication skills to present liquidity insights and financial trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders

    Nice-to-have

    • Experience in consumer lending / microcredit / BNPL / fintech environments with high-frequency cash cycles (daily collections/disbursements).
    • Comfort with process design and internal controls (e.g., cash thresholds, payment prioritization rules, approval workflows).
    • Strong written communication in English for executive-ready reporting (weekly liquidity notes, variance commentary, risk memos).

 

What we can offer:

  • Being part of a multicultural, highly driven team of professionals
  • 20 vacation days / year + 75% holiday bonus (Prima Vacacional)
  • 1 month (proportional) of Christmas bonus (Aguinaldo)
  • Food vouchers
  • Health & Life insurance
  • Competitive salary

Benefits

Free Meals & Snacks

Food vouchers

Health Insurance

Health & Life insurance

Christmas bonus

1 month (proportional) of Christmas bonus (Aguinaldo)

Paid Time Off

20 vacation days / year + 75% holiday bonus (Prima Vacacional)

Baubap is building a digital banking platform that prioritizes financial inclusion in Latin America through exceptional microloan services. By supporting a high-impact Capital Markets team and emphasizing effective cash flow and liquidity management, Baubap is distinctively positioned to empower underserved communities and enhance their access to financial resources.

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