How to become a treasury manager

Official title: Treasury manager

Also called: Head of Treasury, Senior Treasury Analyst/Treasury Analyst

Treasury manager determines and oversees the financial strategic policies of a company or organisation. He/she uses cash management techniques like account organisation, cash flow monitoring, liquidity planning and control. He/she is also involved in risk management, including currency and commodity risks and maintains close connection with banks and rating agencies.

Main tasks

• Analysing financial or trading information to produce forecasts of business, industry, and economic conditions for use in making investment decisions
• Maintaining knowledge and staying abreast of developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory
• Interpreting data affecting investment programmes, such as price, yield, stability, future trends in investment risks, and economic influences
• Monitoring fundamental economic, industrial, and corporate developments through the analysis of information obtained from financial publications and services, investment banking firms, government agencies, trade publications, company sources, and personal interviews
• Preparing plans of action for investment based on financial analyses

Ways in

• University: Business & Commerce degrees, Offered by 6 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Median pay: $112,860 a year. The middle half earn $93,000 to $141,540 a year.
• Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a treasury manager?

Ways in include: Business & Commerce degrees.

How much does a treasury manager earn in Singapore?

Median full-time pay is $112,860 a year (Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg)). The middle half earn $93,000 to $141,540.

Will AI change the work of a treasury manager?

Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• Ministry of Manpower (via data.gov.sg): Resident Occupational Wages (Occupational Wage Survey) (June 2024 (data.gov.sg update 2026-04-01)), Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026