Treasury Manager

Job Purpose

The Treasury Manager will be responsible for all treasury activities in the Americas & African region (SA), ranging from Front Office, Back Office & Process Excellence.

This role will report to the Head of Treasury and has no direct reports.

Job Responsibilities

Front Office:

• Daily cash actions: Cash and liquidity optimization and daily cash forecasting
• Intercompany Funding: Approve and transfer cash funds between company bank accounts to maintain sufficient levels of cash flows across the business.
• Review and implement intercompany funding requirements.
• Trade finance support: Facilitate and handle trade finance requests from the business, working closely with banking partners to issue letters of credit and confirm payments
• Cash investments: Investment of excess business cash, with support from banking partners
• Operational FX trading, to ensure sufficient balance in required currencies.
  
  

Bank Regulatory Compliance

• Ensuring that all documents and processes are updated in order to comply with current laws and regulations, including Know Your Customer (KYC) documentation.
• Cash collection: Facilitation / provision of bank accounts and a cash management infrastructure for the business
• Liquidity management: Reviewing and managing the company’s ability to make payments through cash flow modelling, funding support and cash pooling strategies
• Short term cash forecasting: Treasury models the estimated cash in and out flows for the POLYVANTIS group on a short-term basis, where it forecasts up to 3 months
• Operational risk management: Ensuring that the execution of risk management policies and processes are in place, to mitigate operational risk including risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes and systems.
• Process Excellence:
• Maintenance of treasury systems and electronic banking tools
• Support Head of Treasury on projects to improve current workflows
  
  

Payments

• Review, approval and processing of payments (including Intercompany payments)
• In-house bank management Administration: Set up, management and maintenance of bank accounts as well bank relationships across the jurisdiction the business operates within
  
  

Administration

• Bank statement processing and GL account clearance
• Processing of front office transactions: Processing of financing, investments and FX contracts, guarantees
• Accounting of treasury transactions
• Market data and master data maintenance
  
  

Minimum Education/Experience Requirements

• Education & Training
• University degree in finance and accounting or equivalent undergraduate Treasury degree.
  
  

Experience

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in finance roles, including a minimum of 3 years in Treasury functions
• Knowledge of Treasury operations & cash management within an international organization.
• Knowledgeable with policies, procedures and best practices in the area of Treasury
• Good Technical knowledge and understanding of S4HANA
• General Understanding of TIS & Corima Systems (added advantage)
  
  

Competencies

• Strong stakeholder management, people management and interpersonal skills
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Excellent command of the English language
• Experience with working in virtual teams
  
  

Work Availability

Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this position. Applicants must be regularly available and willing to work Monday- Friday during assigned hours of operation and such other hours as the company determines are necessary or desirable to meet business needs.

We are proud to be a diverse and an equal opportunity employer. We are fully committed to a culture of respect and inclusion.