Summary:

This global Real Estate business are looking for a motivated and tenacious self-starter to join their Group Treasury function in this broad ranged Senior Treasury Manager role. As well as co-leading the Treasury Transformation Iniatives, the ideal candidate will be able to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced environment, have an outstanding work ethic and have the ability to lead on projects as well as overseeing two team members. They will possess exceptional interpersonal communication skills and have the ability to develop and maintain beneficial relationships with clients as well as colleagues

Key Responsibilities:

Cash Management & Risk Management

• Monitor and manage group’s liquidity, ensuring it meets the current and future financial obligations.
• Develop strategies to optimise cashflow and minimise liquidity risks.
• Preparation of cash forecasts, for decisions regarding cash management and longer-term liquidity planning, as well as monitoring forecasting models to track short-term project funding requirements.
• Take a business partnering approach, ensuring constant communication with key business teams to understand upcoming short term cash requirements and longer-term liquidity.
• Assisting the Treasury Accountant and FP&AS team in preparation of the monthly and quarterly cashflow updates.
• Work with the Group Deputy Treasurer to implement KRIs and KPIs for the function, measurement tools, reporting and action plans.
• Input into quarterly shareholder reporting.
• Able to sense check interest and SWAP calculations and challenge banks where differences are identified.
• Ensure procedures and controls are in place for all Liquidity and Risk team processes.
• Grow relationships with key external stakeholders including Chatham Financial.
• Identify, assess and mitigate liquidity and financial risks factors.
• Develop risk management strategies to protect the company’s financial stability.
• Ensure all cash is swept from accounts in line with all facilities.
• Allocate cash in the correct free vs blocked in line with all facilities post IPD process.

Debt & Capital Markets

• Oversee the accurate and timely reporting of all debt-related information, including principal, interest, and maturity schedules.
• Ensure compliance with debt agreements and reporting requirements.
• Oversee preparation of all presentations for refinancing maturing debt, modelling Liability Management Exercises, as well as possible new financing opportunities.
• Assisting in the preparation of letters for quarterly interest payments, including construction loan IPDs.
• Assisting in the preparation of construction loans drawdowns in conjunction with forecast project cash requirements.
• Produce quarterly compliance reporting for secured finance portfolio, including liaising with internal and external stakeholders for input data and coordinating audit trail sign offs by Heads of Department.
• Ensure Chatham (our Debt & Hedging trade Capture system) data is up to date post IPD process, maintaining accurate records and facilitating data integrity.

Systems & Controls

• Co-lead (with Treasury Operations and Systems Manager) for all Treasury and banking related initiatives.
• Assist with implementation of Treasury related systems.
• Strengthen the control environment and drive change through continuous process improvements and re-engineering cash management processes.
• Dealing with trouble-shooting requests linked to any future treasury systems to ensure a smooth payments process; responsible for ensuring all payments are processed successfully and following up with communications when there are errors, resolving issue and completing ‘post-mortem’ on how to avoid payment error in the future.

Team Leadership:

• Lead and mentor a team of two treasury professionals, providing guidance, support and fostering their professional development.
• Ensure that the team executes their tasks efficiently and effectively.
• Maintain effective communication with internal and external stakeholders providing updates on liquidity status, risk exposures, and compliance matters.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with strong academic results, and a professional Treasury qualification (AMCT).
• 5 years+ experience within a Finance or Corporate Treasury environment.
• Excellent Excel skills (ideally with experience with Macros).
• Ideally used Power BI.
• Experience with Treasury Management Systems.
• Strong team-player with excellent interpersonal, leadership and influencing skills and ability to work well with internal stakeholders.
• Self-starter with the ability to work under pressure to multiple deadlines.
• Clear oral and written communication skills; ability to work with internal / external partners across different functions and communicate with all levels of management.
• Proven ability to think strategically, and to focus on goals and continuous process improvements, whilst motivating other team-members to ensure delivery