Financial Controller
Full Time
Job Description
- Identify and embed new technology solutions to automate manual cashiering processes
- Rationalize and consolidation of banking relationships
- Systems and process development, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Treasury, Banking, AP Operations
- Management of a globally dispersed team responsible for daily transaction processing and cash management
- Manage group and regional liquidity needs through timely and accurate cash flow forecasting and analysis
- Managing forex exposure through placing and management of hedging instruments
- Monthly reporting to Treasury Committee
- Liaising with banking agent for the Group RCF
- Review charges received from financial institutions and renegotiating contracts with suppliers to ensure competitive rates
- Maintaining a robust control environment ensuring strong internal and anti-fraud controls are in operation in line with policy and procedure
- Keeping up to date with new compliance regulations and developments in the banking and payments industry and working with the business to ensure the Group is compliant
- Partnering the commercial Payment Optimization team in managing relationships with payment gateways, credit card acquirers, payment aggregators including negotiation of commercial terms and contracts
- Monitoring transaction data from acquiring platforms to develop strategy and reduce decline rates and charge-backs
- Roll out new B2C customer payment processes globally
- Transitioning to global management of banking, AP and treasury operations
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- A minimum of 10 years of related experience
- Educated to degree level and ideally with a relevant Treasury qualification
- Recent experience managing and developing a similar team profile working across multiple jurisdictions
- Payment industry knowledge and experience of introducing new payment platforms
- Experience managing relationships with banking partners and implementing/changing systems
- Strong cash flow analytical skills and ability to prepare insightful forecasts
- Working knowledge of foreign exchange markets and financial instruments used for hedging
- Awareness of controls and anti-fraud measures operated in the Treasury environment
Reference no: 103419