Associate Director, Treasury Operations
Westlake · Houston, TX
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Production
- Travel
- 25%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level production role at Westlake (chemicals) in Houston, TX.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Casting
- Day to day
- about 25% travel
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $107k–$153k.
Median of the low and high ends of 16 live postings that list pay, out of 85 production engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 84 other live production postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (10+ vs 5+)
Typical $106k–$145k, from 15 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 44%
- Lean 36%
- Root cause 29%
- New product launch 22%
- Six Sigma 22%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Casting, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Westlake in Houston
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Responsibilities
- ◆Oversee daily cash positioning, including cash concentration, funding, and investing in accordance with approved guidelines and DOA.
- ◆Owns short‑term 13 week cash flow forecasting processes and ensure alignment with FP&A, Accounting, and business units.
- ◆Optimize use of bank credit lines, including revolver draws/repayments and debt service execution within delegated authority.
- ◆Monitor global cash balances and support strategies to repatriate or redeploy cash efficiently, in coordination with Tax and Treasury leadership.
- ◆Own and continuously improve core treasury processes (cash management, payments, intercompany funding, bank fee analysis, etc.).
- ◆Partner with FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Legal, and Corporate Credit to align treasury operations with broader capital structure, working capital, and risk management strategies
- ◆Ensure accurate and timely recording of treasury transactions in the general ledger and sub systems.
Education and experience
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field required.
- ✓Advanced degree (MBA or related) and/or professional designation (CTP, CFA, CPA) preferred.
- ✓8–10+ years of progressive experience in treasury, corporate finance, or banking; experience in a multinational industrial, chemicals, or manufacturing environment preferred.
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Summary
The Associate Director, Treasury Operations is responsible for leading day‑to‑day global cash management, banking operations, foreign exchange and treasury control activities. This role ensures adequate liquidity, efficient use of cash, effective management of bank relationships, and compliance with corporate Delegation of Authority (DOA) and treasury policies across Westlake. The position partners closely with Finance, Accounting, Tax, Legal, and business units to support funding, risk management, and capital markets activities
Physical demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to touch, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Work environment
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, as the role is primarily based in an office setting (e.g., Westlake Corporate offices in Houston 5, 6). Some travel may be required for investor conferences, roadshows, plant/site tours with investors and internal meetings. Travel is typically up to 15–25%, including domestic and international air and automobile travel.
If you are an active Westlake employee (or an employee of any Westlake affiliates), please do not apply here. You will apply via the Jobs Hub application in Workday.