Treasury Analyst

About Zenalyst
Zenalyst builds an enterprise agentic execution layer for the CFO's office. ZenBank, our treasury product, automates bank connectivity, statement ingestion, transaction classification, reconciliation, cash positioning and forecasting for large enterprises.
We need a Chartered Accountant who has actually done treasury work in industry to sit inside the product team. Engineers can build anything; they cannot tell you what a correct BRS looks like, why an escrow account cannot be swept, or what a controller will refuse to sign off on. That is your job.
You are the domain authority. You define what "correct" means, and you are accountable when the output is wrong.
Responsibilities
Domain ownership
Define the functional logic behind our treasury workflows: bank statement ingestion, transaction classification, reconciliation, cash positioning, forecasting, and payment workflows
Own the classification taxonomy — categories, sub-categories, and the rules that assign them
Specify reconciliation logic: matching rules, tolerance handling, exception treatment, and what an unmatched item means to a controller
Define the accounting treatment behind every automated action, including what posts to the ERP and when
Set the accuracy bar for AI-generated output and sign off on whether it meets that bar before it goes to a customer
Own the rules around restricted account types — RERA, escrow, OD, CC, FD — and what the system must never do with them
Product
Write functional specifications that engineers can build from without guessing
Test the product as a controller would, and file what is wrong before a customer finds it
Review AI-generated outputs — classifications, forecasts, reconciliation results — and quantify where they fail
Prioritise the backlog on domain grounds, alongside product and engineering
Customer-facing
Run discovery with customer finance teams to understand their existing treasury process
Support implementation: chart of accounts mapping, entity structures, classification rules, opening balances
Handle functional escalations directly with customer controllers and treasury managers
Support pre-sales and demos when the buyer wants to speak to someone who has done the job
Requirements
Essential
Chartered Accountant, with 2–4 years post-qualification experience in industry (not exclusively in practice or audit)
Hands-on treasury, banking operations or financial control experience — you have prepared or reviewed BRS, managed bank relationships, or run cash positioning
Strong grasp of bank statement structures, transaction narrations, and how Indian banks actually report
Working knowledge of an ERP — SAP, Oracle, Tally or Dynamics — from the user side, including how entries post
Advanced Excel; comfortable with large datasets
Ability to write clearly and precisely; ambiguity in a spec becomes a bug
Comfortable being questioned by engineers and defending your answer with reasoning, not authority
Strongly preferred
Real estate, infrastructure or construction sector experience — RERA accounts, escrow structures, SPV-level entity hierarchies, project-wise accounting
Multi-entity or group treasury exposure
Experience implementing or being the finance-side owner of a system rollout
Some SQL, or genuine willingness to learn enough to query data yourself
Nice to have
Exposure to treasury management systems or banking connectivity platforms
Interest in AI and automation, and a view on where it should and should not be trusted
Prior startup exposure
Who This Suits
A CA who found the work more interesting than the designation, and who wants to build the system rather than operate it. You should be curious about how software gets made, willing to sit in engineering conversations you only half follow at first, and unwilling to let something inaccurate ship because the deadline was tight.
This is not an internal finance role. You are not closing our books.
What We Offer
Domain authority over a product used by enterprise CFO offices
A rare seat: finance expertise applied to building, not reporting
Direct access to founders — our CEO is a CA and understands exactly what you bring
Real customer exposure at senior levels from month one
Competitive fixed compensation plus ESOP

Work arrangement
No