What this career involves
- What professionals do
- Lend to companies, or run a company's cash, payments, funding and financial risk from the inside.
- Skills that help
- Credit and cash flow analysis
- Working capital
- Banking relationships
- Attention to controls
- Typical routes in
- Corporate banks run rotational programs, and companies hire treasury analysts directly. Some roles value professional certifications, which vary by employer.
Who this fits
Students who want stable finance roles close to company operations, and accounting or finance majors weighing alternatives to the deal path.
A learning sequence
- Read a role description for corporate banking and one for corporate treasury, and list the shared skills.
- Practice reading a company's debt footnote and listing every loan and its rate.
- Check which training is free before you pay for a catalog course.
The resources
Corporate Finance Institute finance careers
Compare IB, PE, capital markets, commercial lending and risk.
AFP corporate treasury course catalog
See practical skills expected in corporate treasury roles.
AFP Learn treasury training
Learn cash management, payments and corporate treasury.
Corporate Finance Institute resource library
Review accounting, Excel, modeling and treasury concepts.
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