Treasury and Payments Specialist

**ABOUT US**:
Shaken Not Stirred is an organization founded in 2019 with the mission to empower future generations by developing and implementing innovative education projects. Our flagship initiatives include 42 Portugal and TUMO Portugal.
42 is one of the world’s leading coding schools, with over 50 campuses across more than 30 countries. It is a free of charge, inclusive school, open to anyone regardless of academic background or professional experience, based on a peer-to-peer, project-based learning model with no classes, no teachers, and no schedules. In Portugal, 42 Lisboa opened in 2020 and 42 Porto in 2022, and has nowadays 2000 active students with an employment rate above 90%.
TUMO is a creative technologies center founded in Armenia and now present in more than 10 countries. Aimed at young people aged 12 to 18, TUMO is a free of charge program that complements formal education through personalized learning paths in areas such as Programming, Robotics, Animation, Game Development, Music, Photography, and Graphic Design. In Portugal, TUMO centers are already operating in Coimbra, Lisboa and Porto, each with a capacity for 1.500 students, and an ambition to scale even further nationwide.
Shaken Not Stirred is also taking its first steps in international expansion, with the upcoming launch of TUMO Bilbao planned for September 2026.
Alongside these free educational initiatives, Shaken Not Stirred develops professional and entrepreneurship programs, such as the AI Dive for Business, delivered both in partnership with companies (B2B) and directly to individuals (B2C).
**All our initiatives are driven by a strong social mission**: to promote upward social mobility and contribute to long-term social and economic growth.
**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
As Treasury and Payments Specialist, you will play a central role in ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of all payment and cash management processes across the organization. You will join the Finance team and be responsible for executing payments, reconciling accounts, and supporting day-to-day treasury operations.
This role is critical to maintaining strong financial controls, ensuring trust with suppliers and collaborators, and providing clear visibility over cash movements. It is an opportunity for someone starting their career, who is detail-oriented, reliable, and comfortable handling financial transactions in a structured and compliant environment.
- Payments Execution: Ensure the timely and accurate execution of payments to suppliers, service providers, and collaborators including salaries, fees, reimbursements, and other operational payments.
- Payments Control & Validation: Review and validate payment requests against approved documentation, contracts, and internal authorizations ensuring compliance with internal approval workflows and payment calendars.
- Financial Records: Register and validate payment-related entries in the ERP system (Primavera). Ensure correct allocation of payments to suppliers, cost centers, and accounting periods and support month-end closing activities related to treasury and bank accounts.
- Bank & Account Reconciliations: Perform regular bank reconciliations to ensure alignment between bank statements, ERP records, and internal tracking tools and monitor open transactions.
- Treasury & Cash Flow Support: Assist in short-term cash flow tracking and forecasting by providing accurate payment and balance information. Maintain clear visibility over bank accounts, balances, and upcoming cash needs.
- Internal Control: Ensure compliance with internal financial policies, audit requirements, and funder/donor rules where applicable.
- Process Improvement & Risk Management: Contribute to the maintenance and continuous improvement of treasury and payment procedures. Proactively identify risks, inefficiencies, or control gaps and support the implementation of effective solutions.

**WHAT YOU BRING**:

- Background: Education in Finance/Accounting or experience in a treasury, payments, finance operations, or accounting support role.
- Technical Skills:

- Experience executing payments and performing bank reconciliations.
- Familiarity with ERP Primavera is a strong plus.
- Comfortable working with Excel / Google Sheets for reconciliation and tracking purposes.
- Financial Rigor:

- Strong attention to detail and high sense of responsibility.
- Ability to handle sensitive financial information with discretion and accuracy.
- Comfortable working with deadlines and repetitive, high-precision tasks.
- Process-Oriented Mindset: Structured approach to work, with respect for procedures and controls and willingness to contribute to process documentation and continuous improvement.
- Communication & Collaboration: Clear and professional communication with internal teams and external partners and ability to flag issues early and follow through until resolution.
- Attitude: Reliable, proactive, and hands-on, comfortable working autonomously