Job Description
Job Summary
This position is responsible for managing Treasury Operations, the organization’s financial assets, liquidity and risk to ensure optimal cash flow, financial stability and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Track and analyse key trends in the area of anti-corruption, counter-fraud, regulatory requirements for anti-corruption, money laundering among others in Nigeria
- Assess market trends, drive financial risk management, and identify opportunities to maximize cash flow as part of their responsibilities.
- Drive trading activities in bonds, treasury bills, commercial papers and other financial instruments in the market
- Ensure thorough effective cash forecasting, that the business has sufficient funds to operate, manage cash pooling arrangements, and oversee all treasury processes in compliance with the company policies.
- Must assess macroeconomics and industry trends, interest rate fluctuations, foreign exchange exposure, and other potential risk to develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Manage relationships with banking institutions, negotiating favourable terms for banking services, credit facilities and investment opportunities.
- Keep up to date with industry trends, new financial products and services that can benefit the organization and its cash.
- Manage the business capital structure, evaluating different sources of capital (short and long term), such as debt, equity and/or hybrid.
- Oversees day-to-day operations, including cash disbursement, pooling, collections and accounting reconciliations and reporting.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years long and significant experience in treasury management, finance or related roles.
- Must have a proven track record of successfully managing complex treasury operations, finance risk and cash flow (asset & liability management).
- Professional qualification from a recognised body like ICAN, CIS, CFA, CIMA, ACCA, etc. is required
- An advanced degree such as an MBA (with an option in Finance) is an added advantage.