Cash Specialist

The Opportunity

Company & Department: Emera Inc. Corporate Treasury

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Closing Date: July 20, 2026

Emera is a leading North American provider of energy services headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia with $45B in total assets. Emera delivers safe, clean, and reliable energy to customers through investments in regulated electric and natural gas utilities, and related businesses and assets

We are currently looking for a Cash Specialist to join our Corporate Treasury team on a permanent basis. As Emera's Cash Specialist, you will play an important role in a complex corporate treasury environment, gaining exposure to a broad range of activities including cash management, liquidity forecasting, debt and foreign exchange transactions, banking relationships, treasury governance, and process improvement initiatives.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Treasury, this role offers an excellent opportunity for a treasury, banking, or finance professional to broaden their expertise while contributing to the management of high value and strategically important financial transactions. If you have experience in treasury, cash management, banking operations, treasury systems, or financial services and enjoy solving problems, improving processes, and working collaboratively with others, we would like to hear from you.

Key Elements of the Role:

As a key member of Emera's Corporate Treasury team, you will contribute to the management of liquidity, banking operations, treasury systems, and treasury governance activities across the organization. Working closely with the wider treasury team, you will help ensure the efficient execution of treasury activities while identifying opportunities to enhance controls, automation, reporting, and overall effectiveness.

A key aspect of this role is building and maintaining strong working relationships across the organization and with external financial institutions. The Cash Specialist will act as a liaison between treasury, business units, banking partners, and other external service providers to support treasury operations, resolve issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

More specifically, in this role you will:

• Manage daily cash forecasting and liquidity management activities
• Generate cash management reports for treasury and Finance leadership
• Support month-end and year-end reporting requirement
• Execute and manage debt, interest, and equity-related payments, ensuring compliance with approved schedules and controls
• Manage bank account openings, closings, and documentation
• Administer banking services, agreements, account access, and governance, including Delegation of Authority (DOA) requirements for debt and FX transactions.
• Resolve banking access issues and other day-to-day treasury and cash management matters
• Ensure adherence to SOX requirements, internal controls, and treasury governance standards
• Collaborate with treasury, tax, and corporate accounting teams to optimize Kyriba utilization including cash forecasting, payment processing, and intercompany loan management
• Lead and support treasury transformation initiatives, process automation, standardization, and continuous improvement projects

These skills will make you successful:

As the ideal candidate you recognize yourself in most of the following competencies, and possess or are working towards the desired skills and experience listed below:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline, combined with a minimum of five (5) years of experience in cash management, treasury operations, commercial banking, or a related financial role
• Professional designation (CTP, CPA, CFA) completion or progress towards a designation would be considered an asset
• Experience in cash forecasting and liquidity management
• Advanced proficiency Excel, including cash forecasting, financial analysis, reporting, and reconciliation activities; and a demonstrated curiosity and adaptability in using AI-assisted tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Strong knowledge of cash management principles, liquidity planning, banking services, and cash flow forecasting
• Experience working with treasury management systems and ERP platforms; familiarity with Oracle and Kyriba would be considered an asset
• Sound understanding of commercial banking products and services, including electronic payments, collections, account administration, and bank relationship management
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective relationships with banking partners, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
• A continuous-improvement mindset with a proven ability to identify process enhancements, streamline workflows, and improve operational efficiencies
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment while successfully collaborating as part of a team and adapting to changing business priorities

The perks of joining our team? We offer:

Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.

Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.

Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching and; volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.

Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Inclusion at Emera :

As one of Atlantic Canada's largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

Recruitment & Promotion Policy

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values by our recruitment policy and values, we are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants.