Job Description

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, GBSand 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
Financial Risk management responsibility for all entities in EAMEI / HHC GBU
Funding and Financial Investment Management and Reporting
Leading Treasury Projects 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 South African Region 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.

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).

• Define BCP with support of the entity and ALEBS to ensure the continuity of treasury activity

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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 r 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).

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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

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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 local countries

• 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?

1. Bachelor degree in Finance, Mgmt, etc. Formal qualification in treasury (or master)
2. 7+ years experience in Treasury activities including Africa and /Or MEI specificity

3. Understanding of financial markets, financial instruments and debt instruments / Ability to work autonomously and be part of the broader team / Appropriate handling of sensitive information

Work experience

-Treasury and cash management

- Experience in shared service center

- Experience in a multinational company desirable

Functional Skills

- Strong knowledge of Treasury activities

- Strong Knowledge of ERP (Navision, SAP, Oracle, Gideon…) and Power BI (reporting tool)

- Google Suite and TAIG

Foreign language

English Mandatory, French is an asset

Core Competencies & Knowledge

• Finance Expertise

• Business Acumen

• Digital/Financial/ Commercial Savvy

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Complementary Capabilities

• Thinking & Partnering strategically

• Influencing for Change

• Managing conflict

• Analyzing and solving problems

• Professional manner and highly organized

• Proactive & adaptable

• Proven ability to meet deadlines

• Results oriented

• Good written and verbal communication, coaching skills

• Ability to be patient and methodical when resolving problems

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