Job Description

Working within the Finance team, the Group Treasurer oversees the treasury function for the group, including cash flow management, forecasting, reporting, working capital management, refinancing debt facilities, managing foreign exchange and interest rate risk and maintaining banking relationships. Taking a high level and strategic view in order to identify risks and opportunities, this role works with key partners across the business in order to ensure the efficient utilization of group resources.

This role sits on the finance leadership team and will be part of the team that are transforming the finance function. As such the job holder needs to be willing and able to champion cross functional projects across finance as we look to develop and improve finance processes and create a one team culture with development for all our colleagues.

You should be a self-starter with the ability to influence and operate at a senior level. Capable of critical and strategic thinking, the candidate should be able to articulate treasury issues in a clear and understandable way and make recommendations to senior team members.

Main responsibilities:

• Manage, mentor and coach the treasury team of two. Recommend and develop the future structure of the team to ensure its ongoing suitability for the Group. 
• Governance and control frameworks - ensure a robust control framework by maintaining and improving processes, procedures and controls
• Cash flow management, reporting and forecasting. Developing dashboards and KPIs.
• Working with the team to incorporate cash forecasting into budgets and forecasts 
• Management of the Group’s financial hedging activities – reviewing policy and recommending required actions within the policy.
• Monitoring effectiveness of the policy and reviewing future impacts
• Company structure rationalization – a key member of the Committee that reviews the effectiveness of the current structure and recommends future actions 
• Manage the relationship with group insurance brokers, including management of group insurance agreements, identification and mitigation of risks, and lead discovery process for any new claims
• Intercompany loan structure – working with tax team to make sure it is optimal from a cash repatriation and tax point of view 
• Management of foreign exchange and interest rate derivative portfolio including forwards and options
• Banking relationships – managing the relationship with the facility lenders, ensuring compliance with covenants and calculating the impact of future forecasts and trends to enable action in advance

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA equiv), with treasury qualification (or by experience). 
• Experience working with or in an international group
• Proven skills in managing and developing a team. 
• Treasury knowledge - Cash flow and forex management experience
• Experience of managing lender groups and the required reporting, such as covenants 
• Managing and developing teams through change
• Proven experience in communicating issues and recommendations to senior colleagues including Board level.

Personal traits…

• Ability to work proficiently in a fast-paced dynamic environment. 
• Ability to take ownership of work, initiate and implement change, and influence others.
• A team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills both orally and in writing. 
• Experience of training and mentoring others.
• Excellent organizational skills. 
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. 
• Self-starter - with ability to generate own ideas rather than act under instruction.