Make FX costs visible
Review spot spreads, forward points, timestamps, trade patterns, and counterparty pricing so finance can see where FX costs enter the business.
Treasury discipline before treasury headcount
Independent treasury and FX advisory for companies with real currency exposure
Bastion helps commercial and mid-market companies bring structure, transparency, and control to FX exposure, treasury workflows, payment processes, hidden costs, reporting, and currency decisions.
We support CFOs, controllers, owner-operators, and finance teams handling treasury responsibilities before the business is ready to hire a full treasury department.
FX costsSpread visibility, timestamps, forward points, and TCA.
Treasury workflowsControls, policy, reporting, ownership, and cadence.
PaymentsApprovals, timing, reconciliation, and payment readiness.
What the audit reviews
Cash visibility, FX exposure, payment approvals, hidden FX costs, policy gaps, reporting routines, and the spreadsheets currently holding the process together.
Advisory first
The treasury work companies hire for, before the treasury hire
As companies grow, treasury responsibilities often land inside accounting, finance, or the owner’s office.
Cash forecasts need to be updated. Supplier payments need approval. FX exposure needs to be measured. Bank and broker pricing needs to be reviewed. Hedge decisions need policy and documentation. Spreadsheets need better controls before they become permanent infrastructure.
Bastion helps finance teams organize that work. We review how cash, FX, payments, exposures, costs, approvals, reporting, and systems actually operate today, then help build a practical treasury process the team can run.
- Cash, FX, payment, and treasury workflow audits
- FX policy, exposure ownership, and hedge decision rules
- Transaction cost analysis and bank or broker spread review
- Spreadsheet, reporting, reconciliation, and automation improvement
- Practical monthly advisory for finance teams carrying treasury work
When finance starts carrying treasury work
Most treasury issues show up as process issues first.
Companies usually call Bastion when treasury work has become too important to leave inside scattered spreadsheets, rushed payment decisions, opaque FX pricing, or informal approval habits.
Bring control to recurring treasury work
Turn cash forecasts, payment approvals, exposure tracking, hedge decisions, and reporting into a repeatable workflow with clear ownership.
Add treasury discipline before adding headcount
Get specialist support for the cash, FX, payment, policy, and reporting work companies often hire treasury managers to fix.
Who we help
Built for finance teams with treasury responsibilities, not always treasury teams
Bastion works with owner-operators, CFOs, controllers, finance managers, importers, exporters, and commercial or mid-market companies with recurring foreign-currency payments, USD/CAD exposure, cross-border suppliers, foreign-currency revenue, or growing payment complexity.
- Importers managing supplier payments, inventory costs, and margin risk
- Exporters managing USD/CAD receivables and conversion timing
- Controllers responsible for FX, payments, approvals, and reconciliations
- CFOs who need policy, reporting, controls, and board-ready explanations
- Owner-operators who want visibility before FX becomes a recurring margin problem
- Finance teams relying on spreadsheets for treasury work that has outgrown them
Operating model
How Bastion helps finance teams mature treasury
Bastion helps finance teams diagnose current gaps, prioritize what matters, build usable process, and support ongoing treasury decisions.
Diagnose the current state
We review cash visibility, FX exposure, payment workflows, bank or broker pricing, approvals, reporting, policy, spreadsheets, and systems.
Prioritize what matters
Not every issue needs a major project. We separate urgent control gaps, measurable FX costs, decision bottlenecks, and longer-term automation opportunities.
Build usable process
We help turn treasury work into practical routines, templates, reporting, approvals, escalation paths, and decision rules finance teams can actually run.
Support ongoing decisions
Bastion can provide monthly advisory, FX decision context, TCA follow-up, policy support, reporting improvement, and client-only intelligence tools.
Services
View servicesFocused support across the work companies usually hire treasury for.
Treasury Services
Cash visibility, payment controls, forecasting routines, reporting, policy, spreadsheet cleanup, systems review, and implementation support for finance teams carrying treasury work.
FX Risk Management
Exposure mapping, hedge policy, decision rules, monitoring, and reporting for companies that need to know what currency risk exists, who owns it, and when action is required.
Currency & Payments
Cross-border payment workflow, currency account, FX conversion, approval, and reconciliation support. Execution and payment services are explained on the Currency & Payments page.
TCA & Advisory
Trade-level review of FX pricing, spreads, forward points, timestamps, and process gaps so finance can see what execution is really costing.
FX Intelligence
Client-only USD/CAD market context, event risk, decision zones, and hedge discussion support for finance teams making recurring currency decisions.
Client Tools
Paid client-only tools and dashboards that support exposure reviews, payment timing, hedge discussions, economic calendar planning, and treasury decision discipline.
Start with the treasury gaps your next hire would probably find
The Free Treasury Audit is a practical first review of the cash, FX, payment, reporting, policy, and workflow issues that often appear before companies hire dedicated treasury staff. It helps identify where hidden spreads, manual approvals, unclear exposure ownership, missing policy, spreadsheet dependency, or poor reporting may be costing the business time, margin, or control.
- Review current FX, payment, cash visibility, and treasury workflows
- Identify hidden cost, approval, reporting, and control issues
- Discuss exposure ownership, FX policy, and hedge decision gaps
- Prioritize practical next steps before software, hiring, or execution changes