How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?
The mission of the Treasury COE Team members is to manage bank relationships and group compliance with the support of local CFO / teams and ensure all affiliates have enough funds to run their operations. He/she will be the direct point of contact with local CFOs, GBS and clusters for treasury matters.
He/she provides support to Corporate Finance for the ST/LT funding of the entities.
At the EAMEI / HHC GBU level, his/her role involves
- Leading Treasury Projects for EAMEI / HHC GBU
- Cashflow Forecast and Liquidity management responsibility for all entities in EAMEI / HHC GBU
- Corporate Finance CoE responsibility including funding and capital structure for EAMEI / HHC GBU
- Leading other treasury functions at EAMEI / HHC GBU as may be assigned
- Act as a back-up for other EAMEI / HHC CoE Treasury team members for their geographical scope
For the assigned geographical scope he/she will be leading treasury matters, in line with the main contributions highlighted below, and manage bank relationships and group compliance with the support of local CFO / teams and ensure all affiliates have enough funds to run their operations. He/she provides support to Corporate Finance for the ST/LT funding of the entities.
Manage all Treasury, Payments & Cash Management activities at an Entity/cluster/GBS/CoE/GBU/HO level. Also responsible for Financial Risk Management (Financing, Foreign Exchange, Banking, Cash flow...).
1. Financial Risk management & Insurance Management
- Executes hedges within financial policy principles in line with group policy
- Manage foreign exchange coverage, validate hedging strategy both FX and interest rate.
- Manage FX exposure across the scope.
- Ensure the implementation of the KTP Web tool and FX deals reporting when local hedging is performed due to local constraints (Aim, benefits, etc), soon to be Quantum (from FIS).
- Define BCP with support of the entity and ALEBS to ensure the continuity of treasury activity
2. Cash and Liquidity Management
- Own the full process of Cash and Liquidity management with the entities and ALEBS team.
- Maintain local cash pooling structure within the entities.
- Supervise and contribute to treasury processes: weekly cash flow forecast, monthly operational actual cash flow
- Ensure all reports related to Treasury and cash projection management are done on time
- Monitor working capital and assist affiliates in improving their DSO, DIO and DPO.
3. Funding and Financial Investment Management and Reporting
- Support short term, long term funding and customer financing projects.
- Ensure proper control at entity levels of bank covenants, bank loan maturing and guarantees.
- Drive implementation of factoring and supply chain financing solutions when applicable
- Support and ensure the deployment of any treasury project initiated by the CoE Treasury (encrypted payments, TMS, etc).
4. Performance, Quality & Conformity Management
- Ensure deliverables quality
- Ensure Service Level Agreement Compliance and report any dysfunction
- Ensure to implement the process improvements
- Manage and update Treasury procedures if needed.
- Manage Treasury Internal Control Reviews across EAMEI in coordination with Group Treasury and Head of COE
- Manage financial fraud and dispute cases
5. Bank Relationship Management and Treasury Administration
- Manage Bank relationships with the support of Local CFOs and Head of COE.
- Manage Defined KPIs, Ensure SLA compliance and reporting to the group, clusters and entities
- Bank Portals Administration (updating authorized signatories, banking access rights...etc.)
- Drive the reduction of the number of bank accounts across the entities, review the bank fees and decide on an action plan to reduce transaction costs.
- Schedule regular meetings with core and local banks if any to review their performance and if needed take action to improve the level of the service
- Provide information to answer queries from management & external parties jointly with Local and BSC teams
- Provide treasury information/documentations as required by banks/financial institutions
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Are you a MATCH?
- 1Master degree in Finance, Mgmt, etc. Formal qualification/diploma in treasury
7+ years experience - Fluent English is a must
- Treasury and cash management
- Experience in shared service center
- Experience in a multinational company desirable
- Good understanding of financial markets, financial instruments and debt instruments
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