Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
As part of Finance, Corporate Treasury has around 35 employees. The purpose of Corporate Treasury is to manage the company’s liquidity, solvency and financial market risks. This includes Financial Operations (whereby the Company’s daily global cash position is managed), Corporate Funding (whereby the Company’s funding activities and cash flow forecasts are managed), Reporting & Forecasting (whereby the Company's currency exposure and all internal and external Treasury reporting are managed), Financial Risk Management (whereby the Company’s foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risks are managed) and System, Processes and Projects (whereby all Treasury Systems, Treasury Processes and Projects are managed) as well as Risk Finance & Transfer (whereby all Risk Finane & Transfer topics are managed).
Key Responsibilities:
1. Be the key contact person for all treasury system applications
2. Manage all IT applications in alignment with Corporate’s compliance requirements for SAP In-House-Bank (IHC), SAP Payment Factory (BCM, APM, MBC), SAP Cash Management, SAP Liquidity Analyzer, and treasury related applications like Liquidity Planner and Exposure Forecast, Bank Account Manager (BAM), Treasury Management System (TMS), interfaces to market and trade platforms (Bloomberg, T, CMS (Former Finastra, MISYS), DTCC) in cooperation with Global IT, IT Security etc.
3. Manage direct IT interfaces for treasury applications
4. Manage the SWIFT Connection as Security Office
5. Ensure straight-through processing and full integration between all treasury applications
6. Ensure smooth operation of the day-to-day business by setting up/ maintaining / update all treasury applications
7. Lead medium sized system projects and improvement initiative in Treasury: analysis, design, evaluation, coordination (Request-For-Changes), blueprint, business change management, realization, Go Live, continuous improvement and ensure sustainability of achievements for treasury applications & processes by Global IT standards
8. Provide comprehensive technical and business expertise for treasury and SAP processes to support business partners
9. Drive Treasury Data Management
10. Identify significant improvement potential through variance analysis, derive solutions and recommendations to facilitate related decisions
11. Provide information about new processes or operational plans and deliver impact on Corporate Treasury environment, i.e. Segregation Of Duties
12. Design, develop and implement adequate KPI’s and analytic tools to present results, recommendations and solutions
13. Work collaboratively in an international team environment
14. Actively keep up to date with latest system / application trends for Treasury
Authorities:
15. Engage third party service and system providers
16. Coordinate other departments and group companies
17. Plan, seek and engage project resources
18. Control Treasury system access
19. Update Treasury a-live website
Key Relationships:
Key Internal Stakeholders:
20. Corporate Treasury
21. Project Sponsors
22. Global Business Services (GBS)
23. Global IT
24. Internal Auditors
25. Accounting/Controlling
Key External Stakeholders:
26. Financial Institutions
27. Treasury system and service providers
28. External Auditors
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
• Comprehensive business and IT understanding of processes and structure
29. Knowledge of accounting topics related to treasury activities
30. High degree of service and customer orientation
31. Broad SAP experience and Treasury Management System experiences (like Quantum or SAP treasury) in terms of usage and processes
32. Be team player
33. Understand business requirements in technical processes
34. Ability to coordinate, drive and perform changes / upgrades / maintenance of treasury systems
35. Ability to operate cross-functionally
36. Understanding of the complexity, interactions and dependences within IT applications
37. Experience in Project Management
38. Good verbal and written communication, including presentation skills
39. Work closely together with Global IT and external vendors
40. Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
41. University degree in Business Administration/Finance / business informatics/ business oriented information technology
42. 3-8 year experience in Treasury / Accounting / Banking / IT / SAP, ideally SAP AFS
43. Comprehensive expertise for treasury relevant systems
44. Fluent in English spoken and written, German as a plus
45. Relevant project management experience
46. Willing to train and be trained on above topics