Cash visibility
See balances, timing, and liquidity before decisions become urgent.
Treasury Services
Treasury services for finance teams carrying treasury work
Practical support for the cash, payment, FX, policy, reporting, and workflow responsibilities that often land in finance before a company hires dedicated treasury staff.
Service overview
Turn scattered cash, FX, payment, and reporting work into a managed treasury process.
Bastion helps commercial and mid-market finance teams improve cash visibility, payment controls, FX exposure tracking, reporting, policies, spreadsheets, systems, and treasury workflow. The work is built for companies that need treasury discipline now, even if a full treasury department comes later.
Typical starting point: review cash forecasting, payment timing, FX exposure, approval workflow, bank or broker setup, reporting, and the spreadsheets currently holding the process together.
Treasury workflow map
From scattered work to a controlled treasury routine.
Finance gets a repeatable operating rhythm for the treasury work that usually sits across spreadsheets, bank portals, payment approvals, and month-end reporting.
FX exposure
Map currencies, entities, payables, receivables, and forecast risk.
Payment controls
Define approvals, evidence, beneficiaries, and release discipline.
Reporting
Turn activity into management-ready treasury information.
Policy
Document ownership, limits, exceptions, and decision rules.
Automation
Improve systems only after the workflow is understood.
What we support
The work a treasury hire would start organizing.
Cash and liquidity management
Build clearer routines for cash positioning, near-term liquidity needs, currency balances, supplier payments, and upcoming funding pressure.
Working capital support
Connect receivables, payables, inventory timing, supplier terms, customer collections, and FX decisions so working capital and currency risk are not managed separately.
Treasury policy
Define who owns treasury decisions, who approves payments or hedges, which risks are managed, what limits apply, and what gets reported.
FX exposure mapping
Identify committed, forecast, balance-sheet, intercompany, and recurring exposures by currency, timing, entity, source, and materiality.
Process improvement
Reduce manual handoffs, duplicated data entry, unclear approvals, spreadsheet dependency, reconciliation friction, and operational risk.
Reporting and controls
Build management-friendly reporting, dashboards, control checks, audit trails, and recurring treasury routines.
Technology and TMS support
Review whether spreadsheets, banking portals, accounting systems, APIs, or TMS-style workflows are appropriate before the business commits to automation.
Financing support
Help frame liquidity needs, payment timing, cash visibility, and treasury implications for internal planning and bank conversations where applicable.
Cost comparison
Treasury capability can be phased in before treasury headcount.
This is a planning comparison only. Actual hiring, software, and advisory costs depend on scope, market, systems, and company requirements.
| Option | Typical strength | Typical constraint | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance or accounting ownership | Low incremental cost | Limited time, tools, and FX specialization | Low exposure, simple payments |
| Dedicated treasury hire | Dedicated ownership | Salary, onboarding, tools, and management overhead | Large or complex treasury operations |
| Bastion advisory support | Specialist review, practical rollout, and ongoing advisory | Scope and decision ownership must be clear | Commercial and mid-market companies that need treasury discipline before or alongside hiring |
Scattered treasury work
Spreadsheets, reactive FX, manual approvals, unclear reporting, and finance teams trying to coordinate cash, payments, exposure, and controls without a shared operating rhythm.
Defined treasury routine
Clear ownership, an exposure map, workflow discipline, approval controls, reporting cadence, and a practical roadmap before heavier headcount or systems decisions.
Common problems we fix
Most treasury issues become urgent when no one owns the process.
- No single owner for cash, FX, payments, and exposure reporting
- Cash forecasts are not tied to payment timing or currency needs
- FX exposure is measured late or inconsistently
- Currency purchases happen reactively
- Payment approvals live in email, spreadsheets, or informal habits
- Bank and broker spreads are not independently reviewed
- Treasury policy is missing, outdated, or not followed
- Month-end reporting does not explain what happened or why
- Automation is discussed before the workflow is understood
Deliverables
Clear outputs finance teams can use after the review.
Treasury audit report
A concise summary of current state, risks, gaps, priorities, and recommended next steps.
Exposure map
Currency exposures by type, timing, entity, source, business driver, and materiality.
Process recommendations
Workflow improvements for cash forecasting, payments, approvals, reporting, reconciliations, and controls.
Policy framework
A practical policy foundation with decision ownership, limits, approvals, hedge permissions, exceptions, and reporting cadence.
Implementation roadmap
Sequenced next steps so the team can improve process, data, controls, and reporting without overwhelming daily finance work.
FX cost review
A review of execution costs, counterparty pricing, spread transparency, and related governance opportunities.
Ready to organize the treasury work sitting inside finance?
Start with a focused review of your cash, FX, payment, reporting, policy, and workflow process.