JOB TITLE & PURPOSE OF THE JOB
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Job Title: Regional/Country Treasury Manager
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Job Code: FI-TF-02
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Purpose of the job:
The Regional Treasury Network (NAM, LAM, APAC, MEA, Europe), including Regional Treasurers and in certain countries, Country treasurers, managers, in close cooperation with Corporate Treasury departments , and from time to time with Business Financing (PEF + Bonds and Guarantees) the various aspects of local treasury including:
- treasury forecasts,
- maintaining access to liquidity, FX hedging capacity (as often as possible through central treasury) and bonding lines as needed to operate the business
- preparing relevant assessment (cash curves, FX exposures…) / documentation / studies…as soon as tender stage to help tender costing (FX, B&G…) and financial risk assessment and financing of the future projects
Regional / Country treasurers support Corporate Treasury in rolling out the group processes and tools, ensuring control over cash, optimizing the affiliates balance sheet structure including working capital initiatives, dividend campaign, capitalization, central or local funding, implementing the group bank relationship policy…
In restricted countries, local / regional treasurers are involved in external FX derivatives dealing and external financing under the control of central treasury.
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POSITION IN THE ORGANISATION
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Organisation structure:
Region / Finance (Treasury & Financing)
Reports directly to:
VP Finance Region
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Other reporting to:
Chief Treasury & Financing Officer
Direct reports:
Treasury Analyst (if any)
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Network & Links
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Internal
- Central Treasury (Corporate Treasury and Business Financing);
- Country Treasurers;
- Other expert / support functions, centrally or locally: Taxes; Accounting; shared service centers; Legal
- Tender Support Control; bid managers
- Site controllers, project controllers, country FD
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External
- Banking partners, insurers
- Auditors
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ACCOUNTABILITIES & AUTHORITIES
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Key accountabilities:
- Management of all local treasury matters and policies, providing advice to the Country/Region management and Corporate on treasury implication of projects and statutory issues
- Support business at tender & project stage as need be in treasury matters, in particular coordinating with Central Project & Export Finance / Bonds & Guarantees and Front Office to prepare financing, bonding, hedging requests to be submitted to the later. Closely review & monitor with tender & project managers the project FX exposure & related hedging strategy, especially when hedged onshore.
- Ensure that the necessary financial support is available throughout the Country/Region for the businesses and for the optimum management of the subsidiaries within the Country/Region. Monitor and report progress including completion of financial projects of major significance within the Country/Region and their impacts on the treasury
- Implement treasury initiatives throughout the regions in accordance with sound business practices and financial standards, Company goals, objectives and profit plans
- Ensure efficiency and adequate controls over regional treasury activities, analyse and follow up the results generated by this activity. Participate in any efforts to reduce costs and increase profits within the group risk management framework
- Maintain regular contact and keep relationship with third parties such as financial institutions, public bodies, treasury colleagues and other member of the finance community. Maintain and keep the relationship with local special Foreign Exchange Authority or/and Financial Authority for some restricted countries
- Remain up to date on local treasury related regulations and related banking laws and communicate changes to the treasury community if necessary
- Ensures financing and liquidity of the entities in his / her regional scope, in close relationship with corporate treasury (Head of Subsidiary financing and whenever necessary PEF / PPP departments for specific project financing implementation) especially as far as intercompany financing, banks selection, interest rates and margins negotiation are concerned.
- Actively participate in the bonds and guarantees local lines negotiation, drawings and reporting. Manage the local banking relationships in coordination with Corporate treasury
- Optimizes affiliates balance sheet structure (debt / equity), in the best interest of the Group, from a p&l and FX exposure standpoint, taking into account legal & tax environment. Ensure operational free cash flows are properly channeled to the parent company (set of cash pooling structures, annual dividend campaign..; according to the corporate policy) and monitors counterparty risk with local banks whenever necessary.
- Actively participates in forecast accuracy measurement and improvement and in working capital optimization initiatives (both operationally – cash curve and terms of payment improvement…, - and financially – factoring, reverse factoring…-)
- Responsible for maintaining state of the art internal control in financing and treasury activities in the countries within his / her scope (protection of means of payment, authorized signatories follow up…)
- Measures and leverages the Global Bank relationship at regional level in coordination with Corporate Treasury and Business Financing. May be involved:
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- in networking activities (ECAs, IFIs…) on behalf of / complementing corporate treasury.
- In RFP processes for banking services locally or as a part of global programs.
Performance Measurements:
- Variances versus budget & forecasts for financial KPIs;
- Bundled analysis for FX risks at tender stage & follow-up at project stage
- Cost reduction of local bonding lines & credit lines; maximisation of interest income for deposit
- Roll out of Treasury core model tools in Country/Region
- Optimisation of bank landscape (Core banks & Number of bank accounts open)
- Maturity of internal control in place for all treasury activities
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EXPERIENCE PREREQUISITES & REQUIRED COMPETENCES
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Educational Requirements
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University degree (MBA, Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst…)
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Experience
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Mandatory:
- approx. 7 to 10 years professional experience as a Region / Country Treasurer position of an International Group with centralized processes
- Fluent in English.
- Previous experience with an industrial group / or with a long term contractor with large FX exposure Good knowledge of his / her region / country from a macro economics and financial markets perspective (including regulatory framework).
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Competencies & Skills
- Strong understanding of cash flow generation cycles & accounting mechanism from Profit & Loss to Balance Sheet and Cash Flows,
- Working level in French and English, spoken and written, third language would be a plus
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel (Pivot Tables, V-Lookup, etc.)
- Excellent financial culture, encompassing financing, accounting & consolidation (especially cross border intercompany transactions), controlling, basics in taxes, corporate and finance law
- Knowledge about long term contracts management and accounting
- FX risk management (derivatives, IAS 39)
- Transactional Treasury (cash management, cash pooling, means of payment…) would be a plus
- Audit and /or internal control, design and implementation of procedures would be a plus
- Past experience in the Railway business would be a plus
- Ethics and rigor as for any position in Treasury & Finance,
- Excellent communication skills both oral and in-writing, networking skills internally & with third parties (banks…)
- Team oriented, collaboration & positive influence skills,
- Great sense of organization & priorities setting, able to manage projects
- Strong accounting, banking or treasury academic background,
- Excellent analytical and organizational skills and demonstration of great attention to details
- Ability to discern key trends influencing the balance sheet and cash flows and capacity to challenge those trends.
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